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NEW ORLEANS — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. The rig was located just west of where another rig leased by BP blew up and sank this spring, killing 11 people and touching off an environmental calamity. All 13 members of the work crew on board on...
NEW ORLEANS — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. The rig was located just west of where another rig leased by BP blew up and sank this spring, killing 11 people and touching off an environmental calamity. All 13 members of the work crew on board on Thursday were accounted for, the Coast Guard said. News reports said there was smoke rising from the platform, but it was unclear whether the rig was actively burning or in danger of foundering, or whether the explosion had set off any underground oil leaks. Several helicopters, airplanes and boats...
A federal judge who overturned the Obama administration’s initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling has rejected the government’s bid to have the court challenge thrown out. Government lawyers argued that a lawsuit filed by offshore service companies over the May 28 moratorium was moot because the Interior Department imposed a new, temporary drilling ban on July 12. But Judge Martin Feldman rejected that argument on Wednesday, saying the new moratorium “arguably
The Colombian authorities say five police officers were killed and four wounded by a roadside bomb while on patrol Wednesday evening in the southern town of Doncello, where leftist rebels are active. A version of this brief appeared in print on September 3, 2010, on page A7 of the National edition. Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Get the full newspaper experience, and more, delivered to your Mac or PC. Times Reader 2.0: Try it FREE for 2 full weeks. Past Coverage In Mexico, a Fugitive's Arrest
A judge ruled Wednesday against board members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who formed a breakaway faction with the group’s embattled treasurer and chairman. The ruling by Judge Alford Dempsey of Fulton County Superior Court effectively places control of the group with the faction siding with the Rev. Bernice King, who was elected last October to lead the group. It was co-founded by her father, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Last fall, federal and local authorities
Filed at 9:27 p.m. ET MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- A shootout between soldiers and purported drug cartel gunmen killed 25 suspects Thursday in northern Tamaulipas state, near Mexico's border with Texas, the military said. Troops were patrolling in the town of General Trevino around noon when they came under fire from a ranch allegedly controlled by the Zetas drug gang, according to a military spokesman who was not authorized to be quoted by name. They returned fire and invaded the ranch, known as
The Dutch authorities said Wednesday that they had freed two Yemeni men held on suspicion of terrorism at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam after no evidence of wrongdoing or traces of explosives were found. The men were detained Monday after the United States authorities told the Dutch that the men had suspicious items in their luggage, including a cellphone taped to a plastic bottle and $7,000 in cash. Initially, officials said they suspected them of carrying out a “dry run” of an
A German citizen has been arrested by United States troops in Afghanistan, the German Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. A ministry spokesman did not confirm details of a report in the newspaper Die Tageszeitung that said a suspect had been held for several weeks and belonged to a group of Islamists from Hamburg who had gone to the Afghan-Pakistani border in 2009 to train in extremist camps. A version of this brief appeared in print on September 2, 2010, on page A14 of the New York edition.
NEW ORLEANS — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. The rig was located just west of where another rig leased by BP blew up and sank this spring, killing 11 people and touching off an environmental calamity. All 13 members of the work crew on board on Thursday were accounted for, the Coast Guard said. News reports said there was smoke rising from the platform, but it was unclear whether the rig was actively burning or in danger of foundering, or whether the explosion had set off any underground oil leaks. Several helicopters, airplanes and boats...
A federal judge who overturned the Obama administration’s initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling has rejected the government’s bid to have the court challenge thrown out. Government lawyers argued that a lawsuit filed by offshore service companies over the May 28 moratorium was moot because the Interior Department imposed a new, temporary drilling ban on July 12. But Judge Martin Feldman rejected that argument on Wednesday, saying the new moratorium “arguably
The Colombian authorities say five police officers were killed and four wounded by a roadside bomb while on patrol Wednesday evening in the southern town of Doncello, where leftist rebels are active. A version of this brief appeared in print on September 3, 2010, on page A7 of the National edition. Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Get the full newspaper experience, and more, delivered to your Mac or PC. Times Reader 2.0: Try it FREE for 2 full weeks. Past Coverage In Mexico, a Fugitive's Arrest
A judge ruled Wednesday against board members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who formed a breakaway faction with the group’s embattled treasurer and chairman. The ruling by Judge Alford Dempsey of Fulton County Superior Court effectively places control of the group with the faction siding with the Rev. Bernice King, who was elected last October to lead the group. It was co-founded by her father, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Last fall, federal and local authorities
Filed at 9:27 p.m. ET MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- A shootout between soldiers and purported drug cartel gunmen killed 25 suspects Thursday in northern Tamaulipas state, near Mexico's border with Texas, the military said. Troops were patrolling in the town of General Trevino around noon when they came under fire from a ranch allegedly controlled by the Zetas drug gang, according to a military spokesman who was not authorized to be quoted by name. They returned fire and invaded the ranch, known as
The Dutch authorities said Wednesday that they had freed two Yemeni men held on suspicion of terrorism at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam after no evidence of wrongdoing or traces of explosives were found. The men were detained Monday after the United States authorities told the Dutch that the men had suspicious items in their luggage, including a cellphone taped to a plastic bottle and $7,000 in cash. Initially, officials said they suspected them of carrying out a “dry run” of an
A German citizen has been arrested by United States troops in Afghanistan, the German Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. A ministry spokesman did not confirm details of a report in the newspaper Die Tageszeitung that said a suspect had been held for several weeks and belonged to a group of Islamists from Hamburg who had gone to the Afghan-Pakistani border in 2009 to train in extremist camps. A version of this brief appeared in print on September 2, 2010, on page A14 of the New York edition.
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