JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli marines stormed a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza on Monday and at least 10 pro-Palestinian activists were killed, triggering a diplomatic crisis and an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council.
VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - U.S. government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude.
VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers and the American public clamored on Sunday for BP and the Obama administration to do more to save the U.S. Gulf Coast from an out-of-control oil spill that one congressman called an “environmental crime”.
SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea and Japan on Saturday vowed to stand united against North Korea ahead of a regional summit likely to press China over its reluctance to taken on Pyongyang over the sinking of a South Korean ship.
NEW ORLEANS/VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - The worst oil spill in U.S. history hit its 40th day on Saturday with Gulf residents clinging to the tenuous hope that BP’s complicated “top kill” operation will plug the gushing well.
PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) - BP reported progress on Friday in its struggle to shut off its gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well as President Barack Obama sought to show leadership in tackling the biggest spill in U.S. history.
VENICE, La/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP said it was making progress on plugging its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on Thursday as U.S. government figures showed the disaster has eclipsed the previous worst U.S. oil spill, the Exxon Valdez.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc told congressional investigators on Tuesday that pressure tests on a drill pipe showed a fundamental mistake hours before the deadly explosion that caused the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, a memo released by two congressmen showed.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said Tuesday it was severing all ties with the South and threatened its wealthy neighbor with military action if it continued to violate its waters off the west coast.