Category Archives: World
Israel removes metal detectors from holy site entrance
JERUSALEM - Israel began removing metal detectors from entrances to a major Jerusalem shrine early Tuesday morning to defuse a crisis over the site that angered the Muslim world and triggered some of ...
Jul 24, 2017
Afghan security scrutinized after suicide bomber kills 24
KABUL - A Taliban suicide bomber killed 24 people in a horrific early morning assault in a neighbourhood where prominent politicians reside, causing residents and analysts to question the government&#...
Jul 24, 2017
A vacant White House job: first pet
WASHINGTON - Politically ambitious pups and kittens: Put your resumes aside. The job of first pet - an enviable White House gig with luxurious live-in privileges, after-hours access to the president a...
Jul 24, 2017
A frustrated Trump lashes out at Republicans
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is expressing his frustration with fellow Republicans, saying they “do very little to protect their President.” In one of several tweets issued Sunday a...
Jul 24, 2017
Mexican agents capture member of Jalisco cartel in Cancun
MEXICO CITY - Mexican military and police forces say they have captured a member of the Jalisco cartel suspected of being behind a shooting attack on the office of prosecutors in Cancun. The attack in...
Jul 23, 2017
McCain making dramatic Senate return for crucial health vote
WASHINGTON - John McCain will make a dramatic return to the Senate for a make-or-break vote on Republican health care legislation Tuesday just days after getting diagnosed with brain cancer, giving an...
Jul 23, 2017
Comic-Con hits: 'Black Panther,' Batman, 'Stranger Things'
SAN DIEGO - From “Black Panther” to Batman, “Stranger Things” to “Blade Runner 2049,” and “Ready Player One” to Rep. John Lewis, Comic-Con had something...
Jul 23, 2017
He was purrfect: Honorary cat mayor in Alaska town dies
TALKEETNA, Alaska - Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of the Alaska town of Talkeetna, has died at the age of 20. The animal’s owners announced the cat’s death late Saturday in a statement...
Jul 23, 2017
2 Jordanians killed, 1 Israeli wounded at Israeli embassy
AMMAN, Jordan - Two Jordanians were killed and an Israeli was wounded by gunfire Sunday in a residential building at the Israeli embassy compound in Jordan’s capital, the kingdom’s Public ...
Jul 23, 2017
US student freed after week held in China over taxi dispute
BILLINGS, Mont. - An American university student is free following a weeklong detention in China for allegedly injuring a taxi driver who was roughing up his mother during a fare dispute, in a case th...
Jul 23, 2017
