Category Archives: World
Luggage screening intensified after Australia airplane plot
CANBERRA, Australia - Security remained heightened in airports around Australia with more intense screening of luggage after law enforcement officials thwarted what a police chief described on Monday ...
Jul 30, 2017
PBS CEO warns that federal cuts will sink some stations
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The chief executive for PBS is sounding the alarm about public broadcasting’s future if federal funding is axed as called for by President Donald Trump. “PBS will n...
Jul 30, 2017
Beltre doubles for 3,000th hit, 1st from Dominican to do it
ARLINGTON, Texas - Adrian Beltre had a feeling like none other he has experienced on a baseball field when he saw his three children coming toward him. Then they kept running to the wall in right-cent...
Jul 30, 2017
Italian poster for "Casablanca" attracts $478,000 at auction
DALLAS - The only known surviving Italian issue poster for the classic movie “Casablanca” has sold for $478,000 in Dallas at a public auction of vintage movie posters. The firm Heritage Au...
Jul 30, 2017
Putin says US will have to shed 755 from diplomatic staff
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday the United States would have to cut its embassy and consulate staff in Russia by 755, heightening tensions between Washington and Moscow three day...
Jul 30, 2017
Royals, descendants mark centenary of futile WWI battle
YPRES, Belgium - The Belgian and British royal families, Germany’s foreign minister and descendants of some of those who died in one of the First World War’s bloodiest battles gathered Mon...
Jul 30, 2017
Exchange of bodies ahead of Syria-Lebanon border plan
BEIRUT - Hezbollah and a Syrian affiliate to Al-Qaida exchanged the bodies of dead fighters along the Lebanese-Syrian border on Sunday in the first stage of an agreement to restore order to a conteste...
Jul 30, 2017
Scotland to Britain: Protect Scotch whisky after Brexit
LONDON - Scotland has called for Scotch to be defined in U.K. law so its vital whisky industry can be protected after Brexit. Scottish Economy Secretary Keith Brown has written to officials asking for...
Jul 30, 2017
Police disrupt plot in Australia to 'bring down an airplane'
CANBERRA, Australia - Police disrupted the first alleged plot in Australia to bring down an airplane and arrested four men in raids on Sydney homes, officials said Sunday. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnb...
Jul 30, 2017
Chinese president oversees military parade in show of might
BEIJING - China’s military has the “confidence and capability” to bolster the country’s rise into a world power, President Xi Jinping said Sunday as he oversaw a large-scale mi...
Jul 30, 2017
