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“It is a splendid city, beautifully built,” a famous Muslim geographer once wrote. “The climate is pleasant, the water healthy. Highly renowned, and of great antiquity, it is possessed of excellent markets and inns, and is inhabited by many personages of account, and learned men.” The author, Mohamed Al-Maqdisi, writing in the 10th century, was […]

North Korea’s military has threatened to “physically act” against an advanced anti-missile system deployed by the U.S. and South Korea, and make them “suffer from the nightmare extreme uneasiness and terror.” The harsh rhetoric by North Korea’s People’s Army (KPA) is the communist state’s first comment on Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) since the […]

Authorities, protest leaders and the mother of one of the victims have appealed for calm as over 300 demonstrators, angry at the latest killings of black men by police officers, were arrested in a weekend of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests. Late Sunday and into Monday morning, almost fifty protesters were bundled into the back […]

Cambodians have taken to the streets to mourn the death of a high-profile political commentator and government critic after he was fatally shot at point blank range. Kem Ley was gunned down a convenience station attached to a gas station Sunday morning, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Local news reports said he was […]

Three days of death and a week of grief. It began with police killing Alton Sterling. It continued with death of Philando Castile. And it reached its tragic climax after five police officers were killed by a sniper during what was an otherwise peaceful protest. Three other shootings — in Tennessee, Missouri and Georgia — […]

President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush on Tuesday will speak at an interfaith memorial service in Dallas for five police officers slain late last week. The President will visit the Texas city at the request of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement Sunday afternoon. […]

President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush on Tuesday will speak at an interfaith memorial service in Dallas for five police officers slain late last week. The President will visit the Texas city at the request of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement Sunday afternoon. […]

Bernie Sanders got what he wanted here this weekend: A Democratic platform stamped in section after section by his progressive values. Hillary Clinton got what she wanted, too: A path to bring Sanders’ supporters fully into the fold a week before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. After two days of marathon negotiations and deals […]

Portugal gatecrashed France’s Euro 2016 party to win the European Championship for the first time in its history — and all this without leading star Cristiano Ronaldo. The Real Madrid forward was forced out of the game with a knee injury in the first half, but Portugal regrouped and thanks to some heroic goalkeeping from […]

Geraldine “Gerry” Slattery, 88, of DuBois died Saturday, July 9, 2016 surrounded by her loving family. Born July 15, 1927, she was the daughter of the late George and Kathryn (Yenenas) Urban. She was married to William L. Slattery Sr.  He preceded her in death on Dec. 2, 1997. She was a homemaker and a […]

What was the biggest news event of the week? What was the most important, consequential, significant event of the past seven days, the one that will have repercussions; what will resonate, make its place in the history books? My guess is that you know the answer and you reached it quickly. And for a moment […]