Category Archives: World
Couple accused of assault over cold chicken order in custody
PEMBROKE, Ga. - A couple accused of attacking a woman and her daughter because they were served cold chicken at a Georgia food stand has surrendered. Baxley Police told The Atlanta Journal-Constitutio...
Jul 05, 2017
For-profit college settles over alleged deception in ads
BOSTON - The DeVry University chain of for-profit colleges has agreed to a $455,000 settlement over allegations that it misled students in Massachusetts. State Attorney General Maura Healey had accuse...
Jul 05, 2017
Govt supporters storm Venezuela congress, injuring lawmakers
CARACAS, Venezuela - Pro-government militias wielding wooden sticks and metal bars stormed congress on Wednesday, attacking opposition lawmakers during a special session coinciding with Venezuela̵...
Jul 05, 2017
Brazil's Temer hurries defence against corruption charge
SAO PAULO - Embattled Brazilian President Michel Temer quickly presented his legal defence against corruption allegations to lawmakers on Wednesday, a move seen as a bid to reduce the likelihood of be...
Jul 05, 2017
Pope John Paul II's longtime spokesman dies at age 80
ROME - Joaquin Navarro-Valls, a suave, silver-haired Spaniard who was a close confidant of Pope John Paul II, serving for more than two decades as chief Vatican spokesman, has died at the age of 80. M...
Jul 05, 2017
US defences get pressured by North Korean missile advances
WASHINGTON - North Korea’s newly demonstrated missile muscle puts Alaska within range of potential attack and stresses the Pentagon’s missile defences like never before. Even more worrisom...
Jul 05, 2017
Hobby Lobby accused of hypocrisy amid smuggling case
Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the comp...
Jul 05, 2017
21 young turtles returning home to Louisiana barrier island
NEW ORLEANS - Twenty-one 11-month-old turtles are being returned to the Louisiana barrier island where their mothers laid the eggs from which they hatched. The diamondback terrapin nests were dug up t...
Jul 05, 2017
Prosecutors: Kidnapping suspect marched in victim's vigil
CHICAGO - The suspect in the kidnapping of a University of Illinois scholar from China marched in a vigil for the victim a day before his arrest last week, federal prosecutors said Wednesday, adding t...
Jul 05, 2017
Montana dam blocked again over threat to endangered fish
HELENA, Mont. - A judge on Wednesday blocked construction of a $59 million irrigation dam because of the potential threat to an ancient fish species in Montana’s Yellowstone River just three mon...
Jul 05, 2017
