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10,000 Birds Die as `Everglades of West` Dries, Spreads Disease

The problem is that it has been a dry year and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) hasn't allowed water into the refuge since December.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) are estimating that over 10,000 migrating birds have died so far this year because of reduced water flow to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and California.

Saturday Tornado Toll: 95+ Tornadoes, 5 Dead

Includes updates on other notable storm reports from Saturday and Saturday night.

(STATE COLLEGE, PA) - AccuWeather.com reports tornadic thunderstorms ravaged parts of the Plains Saturday and Saturday night, killing at least five people and leaving behind incredible destruction.

Gaza Lives! New Art Exhibit by Shareef Sarhan

Exhibition Wednesday at the French Institute - Gaza.

(GAZA CITY) - We've brought you reports in the past about the artist, Shareef Sarhan in Gaza, whose incredible talents emanate outward from this place, showing that being surrounded by a military threat has no impact on real art.

VIETNAM: Vietnam Must Free Bloggers Dieu Cay, Phan Thanh Hai and Ta Phong Tan

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(HONG KONG) - Journalist Dieu Cay has been detained incommunicado for the past 17 months in gross violation of domestic and international law, and he should never have been arrested in the first place.

Palestine/Israel Story Missed by Much of US Media

This strange story is being covered by Israeli papers such as Yediot Aharonot and Maariv. But it is ignored by most U.S. media.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - Palestinians and Israelis have been preparing for weeks to greet international visitors to Bethlehem. Several hundred were expected from Europe and the United States.

But Israeli authorities do not want outsiders to see life in the occupied territories.

1,600 Palestinian Prisoners Begin Open-Ended Hunger Strike

The latest plan by Palestinian prisoners comes days after Israel released female Palestinian prisoner Hana Shalabi

(TEHRAN Press TV) - About 1,600 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails will go on an open-ended hunger strike on April 17 to protest imprisonment without charge and solitary confinement exercised by the Tel Aviv regime.

Issa Qaraqi, the Palestinian Authority minister for prisoner affairs, said on Saturday the detainees also demand Israel allow families to visit them.

The Polio Game

How does one play the Polio Game?

(LONDON) - One ignores that in 1949 there was a simple and cheap cure for polio if anyone happened to become ill.

One ignores that polio was actually one of the least serious of infectious diseases and of those who did catch it, only 1% were left paralyzed.

American Logo: A series... Unsung American Heroes

Richard III was king of England, and there he has the advantage over me. But he was a hunchback, and there I have the advantage over him. - Mark Twain

(SASKATCHEWAN) - Paul Singer is the prototype all-American boy. He was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, where his father was a pharmacist.

Rwanda: Ingabire Withdraws from the Kangaroo Trial

Interferences in this trial by President Paul Kagame, Cabinet Ministers and other governmental officials is obvious.

(KIGALI, Rwanda) - Following continuing intimidation of defense witnesses, opposition leader Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, told today the High Court she lost trust in this show trial and will boycott all the next hearings.

She instructed her defense counsel to stay away from this unfortunate circus.

Alberta: Political hell looms

If the Wildrose Party forms the government on April 23, Alberta is on its way to becoming Alabama north with oil.

(Calgary, Alberta) - Alberta is one of the few places in the world that is rat-free, and has been so for more than half a century.

Only zoos, universities, and research institutes are allowed to own caged rats in Alberta, and possession of an unlicensed rat (even a pet rat) is punishable by a $5,000 fine or 60 days in jail.