Category Archives: World
Interracial couples still face strife 50 years after Loving
WASHINGTON - Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different races still talk of fa...
Jun 11, 2017
49 victims of Pulse massacre remembered in daylong services
ORLANDO, Fla. - Church bells tolled 49 times, a giant rainbow flag hung from a county government building and the names of the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack were read aloud at various ceremoni...
Jun 11, 2017
Tottering Theresa May names new UK Cabinet as critics circle
LONDON - Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed ministers to her shaky government Sunday, as some Conservative colleagues rallied to support her - and others said her days were numbere...
Jun 11, 2017
Police: Suspects in Manchester bombing freed without charge
LONDON - All the suspects arrested over last month’s Manchester concert bombing have been released without charge, British police said Sunday, acknowledging that detectives are still not sure wh...
Jun 11, 2017
US-backed Syrian fighters seize parts of IS 'capital' Raqqa
BEIRUT - A U.S.-backed Syrian opposition force said Sunday it has captured a northwestern neighbourhood of the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital of Raqqa the second district to fall in thei...
Jun 11, 2017
Qatar, in regional crisis, hires former US attorney general
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Qatar has paid $2.5 million to the law firm of a former attorney general under U.S. President George W. Bush to audit its efforts at stopping terrorism funding, a matter ...
Jun 11, 2017
Iran says it has killed mastermind of twin attacks
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says it has killed the alleged mastermind of twin attacks last week claimed by the Islamic State group. The official IRNA news agency on Sunday quotes Intelligence Minister Mahmoud...
Jun 11, 2017
Rallies against Islamic law draw counter-protests across US
SEATTLE - Demonstrators around the country rallied to protest Islamic law, saying it is incompatible with Western democracy. But many of the rallies drew even more raucous counter-protests by people w...
Jun 11, 2017
Republicans urge Trump on tapes; Sessions to testify Tues
WASHINGTON - Fellow Republicans pressed President Donald Trump on Sunday to come clean about whether he has tapes of private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey and provide them to Cong...
Jun 11, 2017
Macron's takeover of French politics is all but complete
PARIS - Emmanuel Macron’s takeover of French politics is all but complete. The newly elected French leader’s gamble that voters wanted to throw out old faces and try something new is payin...
Jun 10, 2017
