Category Archives: World
Fire at a small cake factory in Vietnam's capital kills 8
HANOI, Vietnam - A fire at a small cake factory in Vietnam’s capital has killed eight workers and seriously injured two others. The state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper says the fire ripped through the ...
Jul 29, 2017
'Time to move on' from health care, Senate GOP leader says
WASHINGTON - The resounding Senate crash of the seven-year Republican drive to scrap the Obama health care law has led to finger-pointing but also has left the party with wounded leaders and no eviden...
Jul 29, 2017
Venezuela: more than 8 million grant government more power
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan electoral authorities said more than 8 million people voted Sunday to create a constitutional assembly endowing President Nicolas Maduro’s ruling socialist party ...
Jul 29, 2017
Icebreaker sets mark for earliest Northwest Passage transit
NUUK, Greenland - After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometres (6,214 miles), the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled ...
Jul 29, 2017
Iran says US Navy fires warning shots near its vessels
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard said Saturday a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fired a warning shot in an “unprofessional” confrontation with Iranian vessels, the officia...
Jul 29, 2017
7 staff members of opposition newspaper leave Turkish jail
ISTANBUL - Seven staff members of an opposition newspaper were released from a Turkish jail early Saturday pending the outcome of their trial on charges of allegedly aiding terror organizations. A cou...
Jul 29, 2017
Spain pulls 60 migrants from 3 boats in Strait of Gibraltar
MADRID - Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has removed 60 migrants from three boats trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco. The maritime service said Saturday that its rescue...
Jul 29, 2017
Hamburg stabbing suspect known as radical, mentally unstable
BERLIN - A Palestinian man who allegedly stabbed one person to death and wounded six others in Hamburg was known to authorities as a suspected Islamic radical but was also considered psychologically u...
Jul 29, 2017
Century-old battle in Belgium sums up horrors of World War I
YPRES, Belgium - Dismembered soldiers sucked into cesspools of mud. Shattered tree trunks and the waft of poison gas hovering over the wounded who were awaiting their fates on the scarred soil of Flan...
Jul 29, 2017
Judge blocks Arkansas from enforcing 4 abortion restrictions
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from enforcing four new abortion restrictions, including a ban on a common second trimester procedure and a fetal remains law that opponents sa...
Jul 29, 2017
