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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The Red Cross will open a shelter for people evacuated from their homes in the northwest Wyoming resort town of Jackson because of a slow-moving landslide. About 60 people have been forced from their homes since Wednesday as a precaution. Officials say the unstable hillside along a main artery outside the historic downtown area continues to shift, making it unsafe for residents of mostly apartments to return home.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency is reporting that an appeals court has overturned a death sentence of an American man convicted of working for the CIA, and has decided instead to give him 10 years in prison. The semiofficial ISNA news agency reported Saturday that lawyer Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei says a Revolutionary Court issued the verdict for former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati. Tabatabaei described the verdict as final.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is working to convince a reluctant Europe of the need to punish Russia more severely for its meddling in Ukraine. At the same time, Washington is warning Moscow to step back or take more financial hits. It's a difficult balancing act for Europe, which wants to make Russia pay for its aggression but fears the economic turmoil from the fallout of new, harsher trade sanctions by the West.
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Tensions continue to intensify in the Russian-speaking regions of eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry says at least a dozen armed men in camouflage stormed a police station in the small town of Slovyansk today. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov pledged a "very tough response" to the seizure.
BERLIN (AP) — The U.N.'s expert panel on climate change is putting the final touches today on a scientific guide to helping to stop global warming from reaching dangerous levels. The week-long talks in Berlin were slowed by wrangling between scientists and governments over the contents of the roughly 30-page summary of a much bigger scientific report. Developed and developing countries have also been at odds over sharing the burden.
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