Headlines- Major-General Turki al-Malki, a spokesman for the coalition led by Saudi Arabia, claims that the coalition's forces have intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis at Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia.
- Saudi Arabia's military coalition launches a series of airstrikes on Houthi weapon sites in Yemen, attacking the airports in Jizan and Najran. Damage and injuries are reported.
- An American-born citizen who was shot several times by a federal immigration officer in Chicago last year has filed a lawsuit against the US government in an attempt to hold the agent responsible.
- In federal court on Tuesday, the former CIA officer who was detained after authorities found gold bars valued at about $40 million in his Virginia home entered a guilty plea to a single count of wire fraud, acknowledging that he had defrauded the US government of almost $200 million for his own gain.
- Christa Pike, a convicted killier, has regained consciousness and is speaking after foiling Tennessee's attempt to execute her by lethal injection last week, preventing the state's first attempt to execute a woman in 200 years.
- After weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions, hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters participated in nationwide protests throughout France on Tuesday.
Category: Nature
November 4, 2018
Snowy Owls: Birds That Reign in...
At first, it may seem that the small cold city of Barrow, Alaska, 515 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, is in the heart of endless empty tundra. But, as Natasha Mozgovaya discovered on a visit to the northern-most city in the U.S., now known as Utqiagvik, that’s not the case. Anna Rice narrates her …
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