Category Archives: World
Shariah court in Indonesia sentences gay couple to caning
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province has sentenced two gay men to public caning for the first time, further undermining the country’s ...
May 17, 2017
Syrian refugees in Jordan's desert get solar power
AMMAN, Jordan - Syrian refugees in Jordan’s remote desert were connected to solar power on Wednesday, making their community the world’s first refugee camp to be powered by renewable energ...
May 17, 2017
Dylann Roof jail videos: Jokes, spats, no mention of 9 slain
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A week before the sentencing phase of his trial, Dylann Roof got a visit in jail from his mother, who pleaded with him to reconsider his decision to act as his own lawyer in the fat...
May 17, 2017
Ford to cut 1,400 jobs in North America and Asia
DETROIT - Ford - facing heavy costs for new technology and slowing U.S. car sales - is cutting 1,400 non-factory jobs in North America and Asia Pacific this year in an effort to boost profits and resc...
May 17, 2017
New Orleans: Next Confederate statue falls to cheers, jeers
NEW ORLEANS - Workers took down a Confederate monument to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard in New Orleans early Wednesday as onlookers watched from lawn chairs, defiant statue supporters waved Confederate battl...
May 17, 2017
300 migrants in Sweden evacuated after 3 arson fires
STOCKHOLM - Three fires in southern Sweden apparently aimed at refugees are being investigated as arson, Swedish authorities said Wednesday. No injuries have been reported and no arrests have been mad...
May 17, 2017
AP Explains: Trump disclosure a breach of trust, if not law
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump didn’t appear to break any law by sharing highly classified information with Russia, but that doesn’t make it any less problematic for America’s i...
May 17, 2017
Intel sharing at heart of US, Europe talks on laptop ban
BRUSSELS - The intelligence behind plans to broaden a U.S. ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from Europe took centre stage on Wednesday as American and European officials met to d...
May 16, 2017
Chelsea Manning 'looking forward to so much' after release
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, spared by presidential clemency from the rest of a 35-year prison term for giving classified materials to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, stepped out of a...
May 16, 2017
Australia considers banning laptops from airliner cabins
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia is considering following the United States and Britain in banning laptops from inbound airliner cabins, the prime minister said, but declined to explain whether the mov...
May 16, 2017
