The Buzz | Climbers nearing Everest summit after 2 years of disasters

Climbers are making good progress on Mount Everest and the first group could reach the summit as early as tomorrow, following two years of disasters on the world’s highest mountain,

Royal Botanical Gardens: Mixed report on the world’s plants

A report billed as the first comprehensive look at world’s plants finds a planet slowly being ravaged by changing land use, mostly conversion of forests to agriculture to feed a

World Briefs

CHINA-NORTH KOREA Chinese President Xi Jinping extends his congratulations to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his new title of chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, underscoring

Syria | Activists: New airstrikes kill at least 10

Two airstrikes struck a northwestern Syrian town yesterday, killing at least 10 people, wounding many others and knocking out the dome of a mosque, opposition activists said. The air raids on

Turkey | Ankara accused of violating rights of Kurds, Syrians

Turkey came under scrutiny yesterday for alleged human rights violations committed by security forces against Kurds in the southeast and Syrian refugees trying to enter the country, with two organizations

This Day in History | 1971 Britain’s oldest tabloid closes

Enclosed in today’s souvenir issue was a copy of its sister paper the Daily Mail to which owners Harmsworth Publications hope former Sketch readers will now switch. However, production of the

Offbeat | US: Leaping sturgeon knocks boater unconscious on Florida river

Wildlife officials say a Florida man was knocked unconscious by a sturgeon that leapt into his boat on the Suwannee River during a fishing tournament. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation

The Buzz | Lucky seven: Indie bookstores rise for seventh straight year

Independent bookselling remains on a roll. The American Booksellers Association has grown for the seventh consecutive year. Core membership increased to 1,775, up by 63 over the previous year and by

Organized crime | Mexico drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman moved to Juarez prison

Convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks and is fighting to avoid extradition to the United States, was abruptly transferred to a prison in

World Briefs

CHINA 34 bodies have been found and four people were still missing following a landslide at the site of a hydropower project after days of heavy rain in southern China,

Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look

Across the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one was around to

This Day in History | 1940 Churchill takes helm as Germans advance

The invasion began at dawn with large numbers of aeroplanes attacking the main aerodromes and landing troops. The Dutch High Commission says more than 100 German planes were shot down

Offbeat | These beasts are beauties: India holds bovine beauty pageant

Hundreds of cows and bulls walked the ramp in a north Indian town Saturday in a bovine beauty pageant aimed at promoting domestic cattle breeds and raising awareness about animal

The Buzz | Afghanistan: 52 dead after buses collide with tanker

Two buses and a fuel tanker collided yesterday on a major highway in Afghanistan, killing 52 people, officials said. Another 73 people who had been on the buses were wounded

World Briefs

CHINA’s navy is searching for 17 sailors after their fishing boat collided with another vessel. Three navy ships operating in the East China Sea off the coast of Zhejiang province

Canada | Massive Alberta wildfire expected to burn for months

The images are ones of devastation — scorched homes, virtually whole neighborhoods burned to the ground. And Canadian officials say they expect to fight the massive wildfire that has destroyed

Militants kill eight Egyptian police in Cairo suburb

Militants opened fire on a microbus filled with plainclothes police in a Cairo suburb early yesterday, killing eight of them, including an officer, in an attack claimed by a local

This Day in History | 1979 El Salvador cathedral bloodbath

The protest in the Central American country was organized by the left-wing group known as the Popular Revolutionary Bloc. Witnesses said the steps of the cathedral were littered with bodies. Freelance

Offbeat | London’s new Muslim mayor joins Holocaust memorial

London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, has joined an annual memorial to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first official act in office. Khan made Sunday’s

Group seeks to halt US exports of fur from bobcats, wolves

Wildlife advocates on last week said they will seek a court order halting a United States government program that allows tens of thousands of pelts from bobcats and a small number of gray wolves to be exported annually for sale

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