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BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (AP) — A manhunt is underway in northeastern Pennsylvania after two state troopers were ambushed outside a police barracks last night. One trooper was killed and the other wounded. State police say it happened as one trooper was leaving the barracks in Pike County's Blooming Grove at the end of a shift and another was arriving. The wounded officer is listed as stable in a Scranton hospital.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's military says it's still evacuating people and air-dropping food, even as it blows up dikes in central Pakistan to divert swollen rivers and save cities from raging, deadly floods. The monsoon-generated flooding has killed nearly 500 people in Pakistan and the India-controlled part region of Kashmir and affected over 2 million others.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's prime minister says Russian President Vladimir Putin's ultimate goal is to "take the entire Ukraine." Speaking at a conference with in Kiev, Arseniy Yatsenyuk (ahr-SEHN'-ee yaht-sehn-YOOK') says his country is "still in a state of war" despite a cease-fire between the government forces and Moscow-backed rebels in the east. Meanwhile another convoy of Russian trucks said to be carrying humanitarian aid has rolled into Ukraine.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — International coalition building isn't easy and the effort to assemble formidable opposition to the Islamic State militant group underscores that. France is all in, but would like to invite Iran -- something the U.S. doesn't want. The U.S. is pressing Turkey, but the extremists are holding 49 Turkish hostages. Secretary of State John Kerry says as many as 40 countries have offered support.
REDIPUGLIA, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis is urging the world to shed its apathy in the face of what he sees as a third world war. Speaking at the foot of a Fascist-era monument to soldiers killed in World War I, Francis declared that "war is madness." The pope's calls for peace have grown more urgent amid new threats in the Middle East and Ukraine.
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