Matt Volz and Sudhin Thanawala
HELENA (AP) – Firefighters across the U.S. West struggled with wind-driven flames, hot temperatures and dry conditions even after the unofficial end to a summer of devastating wildfires, including those bearing down on two popular national parks.
The dozens of fires burning across the Western United States and Canada have blanketed the air with choking smoke from Oregon, where ash fell on the town of Cascade Locks, to Colorado, where health officials issued an air quality advisory alert. Read Article
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August 10-17 nydailynews.com /By Rocco Parascandola – Four desnudas were busted in Times Square Thursday afternoon for getting overly aggressive with tourists, police said. The desnudas, scantily clad women in eye-popping costumes who hustle tourists for tips, were taken into custody near Broadway and W. 45th St. about 2:45 p.m. Charges against them were pending. […]
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ETRUBO NEWS – The US has extended a European travel alert for its citizens, warning that terrorists continue to focus on tourist sites as attack targets, and that those traveling to the continent should “exercise additional vigilance” around such areas. The alert, issued Thursday, cites “widely reported incidents” in France, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, […]
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NPR.ORG – Carrie Kahn – Despite a spike in the number of homicides and a U.S. State Department travel advisory, tourists are continuing to flock to Los Cabos, Mexico. The popular tourist destination is now one of the most violent in Mexico, but tourists and officials don’t seem worried about the warnings. Los Cabos, Mexico, […]
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A KNIFEMAN slashed a police officer the neck in the Swedish capital Stockholm this morning. thescottishsun.co.uk / A massive emergency response rushed to Medborgarplatsen Square — one of the largest in the city — at around 10:30am local time Cops arrested one suspect and confirmed a colleague was injured. “It seems to be a completely […]
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INTERMEDIATE – ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK Mayka Navarro 11/14/2016 / lavanguardia.com It was on January 9, 2013. The head of the criminal court in Barcelona, Rosa Aragonés, condemned that day to SC and CA, Romanians, three months in prison and the prohibition to approach the metro in Barcelona for a period of […]
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Tourists visiting a popular beach in Mexico’s Los Cabos recorded the moment when cartel gunmen stormed a beach unleashing waves of machine gun fire killing three men and injured two others. Over the weekend, the once quiet resort area saw 11 confirmed murders. breitbart.om – Videos recorded by tourists using cell phones and obtained by […]
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.telegraph.co.uk/Jonathan Pearlman: Tourists on a luxury cruise were suddenly subject to a dusk-till-dawn blackout by the captain and ordered to go without the standard entertainment and trappings for ten days because of a “pirate threat”. The 1,900 passengers aboard the Sea Princess, who had paid more than £30,000 for a 104-day world cruise departing from […]
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Thieves are hunting for latest generation smartphones and luxury watches INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK metropoliabierta.com/ALBERT GÓMEZ The Mossos d’Esquadra have detected a rebound of 15% of the violent robberies in the street, the known ‘tirones’, in the city of Barcelona this 2017. Apparently, the thieves now go mainly to the hunting […]
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