Melanie Arougueti/Staff Writer Universities across the country should be paying attention to the University of California, which recently decided on suspending the SAT and the ACT until 2024. This will create a ripple of change in the admission process for undergraduate students who are in the midst of applying to universities while experiencing a pandemic. […]
Teresa Cerojano/ AP Writer A Chinese vessel that ran into a protected coral reef in the southwestern Philippines held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than 10,000 kilograms (22,000 pounds) of meat from a protected species, the pangolin or scaly anteater. The steel-hulled vessel hit an atoll on April 8 at the Tubbataha […]
AP Staff Aviation officials say an American pilot and a Canadian technician have died when a small plane crashed as they were doing work for a hydroelectric project in Guyana. Guyana civil aviation chief Zulfikar Mohammed on Sunday identified the pilot as Pierre Angiel, the 71-year-old director of a Miami mapping company called Angiel Envirosafe […]
Christopher Tochia/ AP Writer Few South Africans have the moral stature of retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who campaigned against apartheid and now laments the crime and inequality that plague the nation two decades after it cast off racist white rule. “We can’t pretend we have remained at the same heights […]
Mike Schneider/ AP Writer The Florida parents charged with kidnapping their boys after losing custody and fleeing to Cuba by sailboat have been ordered to remain in jail without bond. Joshua and Sharyn Hakken made their first appearance before a Tampa judge on Thursday morning. They’ll face a judge during a pretrial detention hearing on […]
Alexanadra Olson/ AP Writer Red-shirted backers of Hugo Chavez’s chosen heir transformed downtown Caracas into a raucous festival on the final day of campaigning for the weekend presidential election, flooding the streets Thursday in the hundreds of thousands to dance, drink beer and set off ear-splitting fireworks. Interim President Nicolas Maduro, a burly former bus […]
Jessica Meszaros/Contributing Writer While students and faculty went about their everyday tasks on Thursday, South Korea’s defense minister announced that North Korea has moved a missile in range to its east coast. According to The Associated Press, North Korea has been railing against U.S.-South Korean military exercises, which began in March and are scheduled to […]
Vladimir Isachenkov/AP Writer President Vladimir Putin said the civil war in Syria has become “a massacre” that must be stopped through peace talks between the government and the opposition, and repeated Russia’s firm rejection of calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ouster. Speaking to the German ARD television in remarks released by the Kremlin on […]
Rodney Muhumuza/AP Staff Writer The fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony is jettisoning women and children in a possible desperate bid to keep his weakened group lean and mobile, an expert said Friday, after three women freed by the Lord’s Resistance Army arrived home in Uganda after spending years in the bush. Kasper Agger of the […]
AP Staff Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has voiced his support for ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro ahead of Venezuela’s presidential election. In a video broadcast on state television in Venezuela, Silva says he believes Maduro would be capable of accomplishing goals set by late President Hugo Chavez. Chavez and Silva were […]
Vladimir Isachenkov/ AP Writer The U.S. and Russia should overcome their cold spell by focusing on their common economic and security challenges, former diplomats to Moscow and Washington said Tuesday. The ex-ambassadors, who gathered in Moscow to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic ties, said the strains have been driven by emotions […]
AP Staff A provincial governor says at least 53 people, including nine attackers, have been killed in a daylong gunbattle in western Afghanistan. Officials say the fighting broke out Wednesday after suicide bombers disguised as Afghan soldiers stormed a courthouse in Farah province in a failed bid to free more than a dozen Taliban. Provincial […]
