Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and Associated Press editor Horst Faas died in Munich on Thursday at age 79. Faas was best known for his images from the Vietnam War, where he was severely wounded in by a rocket-propelled grenade in 1967. He used a wheelchair the rest of his life, but continued to recruit and mentor new freelancers, creating a team of war photographers who became known as "Horst's army." That group included Vietnamese freelancer Huynh Cong Ut, who became known for a strikin... Read More
The Red Cross suspended its work in most of Pakistan yesterday following the murder of a health program manager. Khalil Rasjed Dale was abducted on his way home from work in January and later murdered when the Red Cross failed to pay a ransom, according to a note found with the body late last month. The suspension covers three of Pakistan's four provinces and is indefinite, pending a risk assessment review of the Red Cross' operations in the area. The Pakistan Humanitarian Forum said Dale's ki... Read More
USA Cycling has launched an investigation into a crash that left top rider Isaac Howe with a double clavicle fracture in Saturday's Electric City Circuit race in South Carolina. According to witnesses, rider Jonathan Atkins retailed after he was edged off the road and Howe refused to apologize. Howe, who held second place in the National Criterium Calendar, pressed charges against Atkins and called for a lifetime ban. Atkins caught a standard 72-hour suspension for the incident pending the inv... Read More
Russia's security services on Thursday announced the arrests of three men and the seizure of a cache of weapons that could have have been used to attack the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The weapons included anti-aircraft missiles, guns, and a flamethrower and may have belonged to a group known as the Caucuses Emerite, an organization that has long resisted Russian authority in the Caucuses. The weapons were recovered in Abkhazia, a semi-autonomous region of Georgia that saw vi... Read More
Lawyers for environmental activist Tim DeChristopher appeared in a federal court in Denver on Thursday to appeal his two-year jail sentence for disrupting a 2008 federal oil-lease auction. In July, a federal judge ordered DeChristopher to serve two years in prison and rejected his argument that his actions were valid civil disobedience. DeChristopher was not released from prison in California to attend the hearing, although he expects to be transferred to a Littleton, Colorado, facility late... Read More
