Abdullah al-Thani, Libya’s interim prime minister, has declined a parliamentary mandate to form a new government and instead will step down, saying he made his decision “to protect the interests of the country” and because an armed attack against him and his family had put others at risk.
Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., said he agrees with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi that racial issues in the GOP have stalled an overhaul to immigration, saying the “Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism.”
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the interior minister of Pakistan, said the next round of direct peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban will take place in the next few days, denying reports that the negotiations have deadlocked and that the country’s military opposes them.
Walter Schumacher of Central Texas Bee Rescue and Preserve was called to remove a swarm of about 25,000 bees from the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, after the insects descended on a picnic table near the racetrack’s main grandstand.
Charlotte Reynolds, a spokesman for Teton County, Wyo., said an unstable hillside in the resort town of Jackson was showing signs of movement but that the shifting was not accelerating and that geologists continued to monitor the situation, which has displaced 60 residents.
Nigel Evans, the former deputy speaker of Britain’s House of Commons who has been cleared of rape and sex assault charges, wants prosecutors to pay his legal fees, saying the $217,000 he spent on the case ate up his life savings.
Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said talks about Iran’s nuclear program have continued undisturbed after Washington refused to grant a visa to the Islamic Republic’s U.N. ambassador, Hamid Aboutalebi.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., described as inarticulate a comment by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush that illegal immigration is an “act of love,” adding he doesn’t think illegal aliens are “bad people,” but the U.S. “can’t invite the whole world” inside its borders.
Mike Jachles, a spokesman for the Broward County sheriff’s office in Florida, said a 29-year-old man was stable after being bitten on the foot by a pit viper when he got out of his car to look at an alligator on Interstate 75, also known as “Alligator Alley.”
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