
US troops sent to aid African diplomat evacuation
President Barack Obama says 50 U.S. troops have deployed to the African country of Chad to help evacuate U.S. citizens and embassy personnel from the ...

Grim limbo for NYC's nursing home evacuees
Hundreds of elderly and disabled New Yorkers who were hurriedly evacuated from seaside nursing homes and assisted living residences after Superstorm ...
Car bomb defused outside Spanish megabrothel
A car bomb was defused in a megabrothel's parking lot in northeast Spain early Monday and 300 people were evacuated from the site, the Interior ...

Syrian jets bomb Palestinian camp in Damascus
Syrian fighter jets bombed a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus Tuesday for the second time this week after rebels made significant advances, ...
Miss. state high court building briefly evacuated
The Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals have been briefly evacuated after a bomb threat but no explosives were found. Courts spokeswoman ...
Egypt evacuates 4,000 people from Syria
Egypt's Foreign Ministry says that Cairo has more evacuated more than 4,000 of its nationals and their family members from Syria over the past several ...

Russia positions itself for fall of Syrian regime
Syria's most powerful ally and protector, Russia, began positioning itself Thursday for the fall of President Bashar Assad, saying for the first time ...

About 350 die in Philippine typhoon, 400 missing
A powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed almost 350 ...

Powerful typhoon kills at least 74 in Philippines
Torrential floods from a powerful typhoon engulfed emergency shelters and an army truck carrying soldiers and villagers who were fleeing their homes ...

Signal problems preceded NJ train derailment
A signal may have malfunctioned on a southern New Jersey bridge where a train derailed, causing a hazardous chemical to spew into the air and leading ...

Mass. natural gas explosion damaged 42 buildings
Preliminary investigations show more than 40 buildings were damaged in a natural gas explosion in Massachusetts that injured 18 people, building ...