SIU creates emergency response team to combat Coronavirus
By Bethany Rentfro, Staff Reporter
March 3, 2020
SIU Chancellor John Dunn said the university has created an “all-hazards” preparedness team to evaluate and plan for all possible scenarios should the virus come to southern Illinois.
Trump-Kim Jong Un summit fails to produce disarmament plan
By Victoria Kim, Noah Bierman And Matt Stiles, Tribune Washington Bureau
June 12, 2018
President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to "start a new history" with North Korea after a summit with Kim Jong Un that produced an agreement only to keep talking and a promise by the U.S. to stop "war games" with its longtime ally, South Korea. The Pentagon's joint military exercises with South Korea...
SIU student reflects on the aftermath of Hurricane Maria eight months later
By Amelia Blakely, Campus Editor
May 9, 2018
Since Hurricane Maria ripped through the United States territory Puerto Rico this past fall on Sept. 20 the island's residents have been picking up the ruins of their homes and businesses while living with no power and water for months. “The days were long and the nights were short,” Ivonne Fr...
Mexico rescues continue; death toll reaches at least 274
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Andrea Castillo and Laura King | Los Angeles Times
September 22, 2017
Rescuers at sites across the sprawling metropolis of Mexico City used search dogs and calls to the cellphones of those trapped to try to pinpoint the location of anyone who had survived under the remains of buildings.
London police say blast caused by ‘improvised explosive device’
By DPA Correspondents | dpa
September 15, 2017
An explosion on a train at London's Parsons Green underground station was the result of "the detonation of an improvised explosive device."
More than 30 dead in powerful Mexico earthquake, officials say
By Deutsche Presse-Agentur
September 8, 2017
President Enrique Pena Nieto called it the strongest earthquake to hit the country in nearly a century.
Counter-protesters gear up ahead of Berlin neo-Nazi rally
By dpa | Berlin
August 19, 2017
Thousands of counter-demonstrators are expected to gather in the German capital on Saturday to protest a neo-Nazi rally called to mark the 30th anniversary of the suicide in a Berlin prison of Hitler's former deputy. About 500 neo-Nazis are expected to turn up for the rally in Berlin's Spandau district...
Spanish police kill five suspects in second terrorist attack
By Pablo Sanguinetti and Ana Lazaro Verde | Deutsche Presse-Agentur
August 18, 2017
Spanish police early Friday said they had killed five "terrorists" who reportedly tried to mow down pedestrians in the resort town of Cambrils, hours after a similar attack in Barcelona. "We are working on the hypothesis that events in Cambrils were a terrorist attack. We have killed its alleged perpetrators,"...
China tells US, North Korea to ‘hit brakes’ on threats
By Al Jazeera | Doha, Qatar
August 16, 2017
China has warned the United States and North Korea to "hit the brakes" on threats and actions, and work towards a peaceful resolution of their dispute. Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday, said the two countries should work together...
British police arrest 12 in terrorist attack
By Erik Kirschbaum and Laura King | Los Angeles Times
June 4, 2017
As Prime Minister Theresa May called for stepped-up action to combat Islamist extremism, British police Sunday reported 12 arrests in connection with the vehicle-and-slashing attack that killed seven people and injured dozens of others. Forensics technicians scoured for clues and police patrolled...
19 dead, 50 injured in ‘terrorist incident’ at Manchester concert
By Bill Smith | DPA
May 22, 2017
Nineteen people were confirmed dead and some 50 others injured after an explosion at Britain's Manchester Arena late Monday that was being treated as a "terrorist incident," police said. Police were called to reports of an explosion at the venue just before 10:30 p.m. local time near the end of a...
After Syria strike, Trump administration talks tough
By John T. Bennett | CQ-Roll Call
April 11, 2017
The Trump administration is suddenly warning would-be foes and touting its leader as a no-nonsense commander in chief, after focusing exclusively on domestic policy for its first 77 days. Last week, the White House was still very much concentrated on health care, a tax overhaul and other domestic...