Category Archives: World
Soldier who lost 4 limbs opening retreat to help others
ROME, Maine - Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills awoke in a hospital on his 25th birthday to learn that an explosion in Afghanistan had robbed him of all four limbs. He later told his wife to take their dau...
Jun 22, 2017
Swift acquittal for former Milwaukee cop charged in shooting
MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee jury needed less than two days of deliberations to acquit a former police officer in the on-duty shooting of a black man last year that sparked two nights of violence on the ci...
Jun 22, 2017
Attitudes, legal standards help make police convictions rare
PHILADELPHIA - In the three years since fatal police shootings of unarmed black people launched the Black Lives Matter movement, few officers have been charged and none has been convicted by juries in...
Jun 22, 2017
AP Analysis: Saudi shakeup, Qatar crisis show a Gulf on edge
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - There was a time when the mention of the Persian Gulf brought to mind images of pampered societies ruled by aging monarchs content to preside quietly over their oil money...
Jun 22, 2017
Student detained in N Korea is mourned at hometown funeral
WYOMING, Ohio - Celebrating the life of an American college student who was detained in North Korea for over a year and died shortly after returning home in a coma, a packed crowd of mourners gathered...
Jun 22, 2017
Prosecutor: Paris attacker asked family to see him as martyr
PARIS - The Frenchman killed when he drove a car packed with arms and explosives into a Paris police convoy in a failed attack had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group and asked...
Jun 22, 2017
Genoa makes special airport waiver for famed pesto sauce
ROME - The Italian port city of Genoa has taken pride in its famed pesto sauce to new heights by granting special airport waivers for those who can’t get enough of the basil and pine nut pasta s...
Jun 22, 2017
Trump's tease of possible Comey tapes fits familiar pattern
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump said he had a secret. He dangled it on Twitter. He parried reporters’ questions about it. He milked the moment, drawing out the drama for weeks. That big tease played o...
Jun 22, 2017
Trump to speak to Poles at site that honours nation's heroism
WARSAW, Poland - U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen to deliver a speech during his upcoming visit to Poland at the site of a memorial to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Germans, a Polish offi...
Jun 22, 2017
Indonesia arrests 41 suspected militants since May attack
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police announced Thursday they have arrested 41 suspected militants following last month’s twin suicide bombings in the capital that killed three policemen. Nine ...
Jun 22, 2017
