Category Archives: World
Austrian police: Remains of missing hiker found on glacier
VIENNA - Austrian police say that an alpine guide touring a glacier has found the partially-mummified remains of a man believed to be that of a German hiker who went missing decades ago. A police stat...
Aug 28, 2017
Climate change seen as cause for mudslide in Switzerland
GENEVA - The effects of climate change are partially to blame for a mudslide through a southeastern village that left eight people missing after a massive chunk of rock broke off an Alpine mountainsid...
Aug 28, 2017
Poland and Italy investigating gang rape attack on couple
WARSAW, Poland - Poland has opened an investigation into the suspected gang rape of a Polish tourist on a popular Italy beach, while Italian prosecutors said Monday they have gathered evidence that sh...
Aug 28, 2017
Germany, Egypt agree on plan to slow flow of migrants
BERLIN - Germany has reached an agreement with Egypt to slow the flow of migrants from the North African nation. The agreement announced Monday is part of a wider effort by Germany to work with countr...
Aug 28, 2017
German prosecutors believe nurse killed at least 86 patients
BERLIN - A male nurse who was convicted of killing patients in Germany with overdoses of heart medication is now believed to have killed at least 86 people - and the true scale of the killings could b...
Aug 28, 2017
Scores treated after mystery 'chemical haze' hits UK coast
LONDON - A mysterious chemical haze that left scores of people on the English coast with streaming eyes, sore throats and breathing problems has dissipated, but its cause remains a mystery, police and...
Aug 28, 2017
German pair suspected of compiling 'kill list' of leftists
BERLIN - German authorities raided the homes and workplaces early Monday of a police officer and another suspect on allegations they opposed the country’s policy on migrants and were drawing up ...
Aug 28, 2017
Netanyahu rips UN, says Iran building missile sites in Syria
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted visiting U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday with blistering criticism of the international body’s treatment of Israel...
Aug 28, 2017
Trump expected to decide soon on fate of young immigrants
WASHINGTON - After months of delays, President Donald Trump is expected to decide soon on the fate of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children as he faces a looming cou...
Aug 28, 2017
Vietnam tries dozens of bankers for graft, mismanagement
HANOI, Vietnam - Some 50 bankers were on trial Monday in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi for alleged graft and mismanagement causing $69 million in losses. The case is part of communist authorities&#...
Aug 28, 2017
