“Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Thursday as winds drove a massive oil spill toward the state’s coast and authorities scrambled to mitigate its environmental effects. The slick was some 16 miles off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of last week’s oil rig explosion, according to the U.S. [...]
“Three people suspected of planning an attack against a Swiss branch of I.B.M. were arrested this month, Swiss authorities said Monday. The three suspects — two Italians and a Swiss national who had been living in Italy — were arrested on April 15 at a roadside checkpoint near Zurich after the police found explosives ‘and [...]
“A bomb attack on a major oil pipeline in northern Iraq has disrupted Iraqi crude oil exports sent through Turkey. Civil defense workers are trying to put out a fire caused by the attack at al-Hadhar south of Mosul Thursday morning. The bomb blew a hole in the pipeline. Iraqi officials say it will take [...]
“A noon shootout left six police officers and a civilian dead on the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, city officials said. Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said five of the dead were federal police officers and one was a female city officer, all part of the joint police task force formed to combat drug violence [...]
“A series of explosions in the Thai capital Bangkok is reported to have killed at least one person and injured dozens more. At least some of the blasts were caused by grenades, an army spokesman said, but it was not clear who fired them. The blasts followed rising tensions in the long-running stand-off between police [...]