Category Archives: World
Official: Indonesian family that joined IS now in Iraq
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A Jakarta family who joined the Islamic State group in Syria out of an apparently naive belief it would give them a better life is now in Iraq and in contact with the Indonesian g...
Aug 11, 2017
Dems target swing-district House GOP on health care
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Democrats used a bus emblazoned with the words “Drive for our Lives” to gin up opposition to vulnerable House Republicans who voted against Obamacare with the aim of u...
Aug 11, 2017
Cambodia accuses Laos of border violation, seeks meeting
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia announced Friday that its prime minister will make an urgent visit to Laos as he demanded its government withdraw soldiers he claimed are encroaching on territory in no...
Aug 11, 2017
South Africa's storied ANC weakens as president stays on
JOHANNESBURG - Minutes after South African President Jacob Zuma narrowly escaped a no-confidence vote this week, he was singing and dancing outside parliament with a throng of supporters from his Afri...
Aug 11, 2017
Philippines to cull 200,000 fowl after bird flu outbreak
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines will cull at least 200,000 birds after confirming its first avian flu outbreak, but no animal-to-human transmission has been reported, officials said Friday. Agri...
Aug 11, 2017
Soggy New Orleans looks warily at more rain, possible floods
NEW ORLEANS - With debris from last weekend’s flash flood still piled up on sidewalks and their city under a state of emergency, New Orleans residents looked ahead warily on Friday to the prospe...
Aug 11, 2017
Amateur Danish sub sinks, inventor held on murder charge
COPENHAGEN - The owner of an amateur-built submarine was arrested on suspicion of murder Friday after his vessel sank off Denmark’s coast and a journalist who had joined him for what was suppose...
Aug 11, 2017
Trump: If North Korea attacks US, it 'will regret it fast'
BEDMINSTER, N.J. - President Donald Trump on Friday issued fresh threats of swift and forceful retaliation against nuclear North Korea, declaring the U.S. military “locked and loaded” and ...
Aug 11, 2017
Trump warns NKorea that US is 'locked and loaded'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is warning of military action, saying the U.S. is “locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely.” Trump tweeted: “Military solutions are now...
Aug 11, 2017
EU: 17 nations get tainted eggs, products in growing scandal
BRUSSELS - EU officials say 15 European Union members plus China and Switzerland have reported receiving contaminated eggs or egg products in a growing food scandal. Several producers in the Netherlan...
Aug 11, 2017
