Category Archives: World
UK rejects demand to replace officials after deadly fire
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government on Saturday rejected demands that she appoint commissioners to run the local council blamed for mishandling the response to the London hi...
Jul 01, 2017
Rapper arrested on unrelated charge after Arkansas shooting
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A rapper whose concert in Little Rock was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured was arrested early Sunday on unrelated assault charges while outside an Alabama club wh...
Jul 01, 2017
World leaders, ordinary Germans bid farewell to Helmut Kohl
SPEYER, Germany - Germany bid farewell Saturday to Helmut Kohl, the former chancellor who steered his country toward reunification in 1990 and whose tireless efforts to ensure peace and stability in E...
Jul 01, 2017
Ukraine: Russian security services were behind cyberattack
MOSCOW - Ukraine accused the Russian security services Saturday of planning and launching a cyberattack that locked up computers around the world earlier this week. The Ukrainian security agency, know...
Jul 01, 2017
Pope removes German cardinal as sex abuse crisis catches up
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis sacked the head of the Vatican office that handles sex abuse cases Saturday, just days after he released another top Vatican cardinal to return home to stand trial for alle...
Jul 01, 2017
2 civilians, 2 rebels killed in Kashmir fighting
SRINAGAR, India - A woman and a young man were killed and several other people injured during anti-India protests and clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday following a counterinsurgency ope...
Jul 01, 2017
China's Xi: No tolerance for subversion in Hong Kong
HONG KONG - Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Saturday that any activities in Hong Kong seen as threatening China’s sovereignty and stability would be “absolutely impermissible,” e...
Jun 30, 2017
Man held in Chinese scholar's kidnapping was grad student
CHICAGO - The 28-year-old Illinois man charged with kidnapping a Chinese scholar now believed to be dead was among a select few admitted to the University of Illinois’ highly competitive physics...
Jun 30, 2017
Bear crashes through window of Alaska's boy's bedroom
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A huge crash jolted 11-year-old Zach Landis awake in his Anchorage home, but it soon became clear it wasn’t a human intruder or his sisters playing a trick on him. A black be...
Jun 30, 2017
Pentagon OKs 6-month delay in transgender enlistments
WASHINGTON - Defence Secretary Jim Mattis is giving the military chiefs another six months to conduct a review to determine if allowing transgender individuals to enlist in the armed services will aff...
Jun 30, 2017
