Category Archives: World
Powerful opioid suspected in 10-year-old Miami boy's death
MIAMI - A 10-year-old boy from a drug-ridden Miami neighbourhood apparently died of a fentanyl overdose last month, becoming one of Florida’s littlest victims of the opioid crisis, authorities s...
Jul 18, 2017
Report: Hundreds of boys abused at German choir school
BERLIN - At least 547 members of a prestigious Catholic boys’ choir in Germany were physically or sexually abused between 1945 and 1992, according to a report released Tuesday. Allegations invol...
Jul 18, 2017
100-year-old tortoise stolen from NYC animal shelter
New York City police are searching for the person who stole a 100-year-old tortoise from an animal shelter. The Daily News reports (http://nydn.us/2tAHfWH ) police were called to the Alley Pond Enviro...
Jul 18, 2017
Hungary's Orban: Collaboration with Nazis was mistake, sin
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungary’s collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II was a “mistake” and a “sin” as it failed to protect its Jewish community, Hungarian Prim...
Jul 18, 2017
'Let Obamacare fail,' Trump declares as GOP plan collapses
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared Tuesday it’s time to “let Obamacare fail” after the latest GOP health care plan crashed and burned in the Senate, a stunning failure for ...
Jul 18, 2017
Magnitude 6.4 quake shakes Peru's southern coast
LIMA, Peru - Authorities say a magnitude 6.4 earthquake has rattled the coast of southern Peru and was felt in the cities of Tacna, Moquegua and Arequipa, among others. The U.S. Geological Survey said...
Jul 17, 2017
Trump lets Iran deal live, but signals he may not for long
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was eager to declare Iran in breach of the nuclear deal but was talked out of it by national security aides who rushed to the Oval Office to persuade him as a midni...
Jul 17, 2017
Man sues Boston archdiocese citing sex abuse at orphanage
BOSTON - A New York man is suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston for sexual abuse he says he suffered decades ago at a church-affiliated home for orphaned and foster children. Andre Jones, wh...
Jul 17, 2017
Cameras turned off again for White House press briefing
NEW YORK - Cameras remained off Monday at the White House press briefing on orders of the Trump administration, sidelining one of daytime television’s most popular features on the same day that ...
Jul 17, 2017
Prep school says relationship crown violated rules, not law
CONCORD, N.H. - Male prep school students who recorded relationships with girls on a cardboard crown this spring violated campus rules but not the law, the head of the school said Monday. The crown in...
Jul 17, 2017
