Category Archives: World
Melissa McCarthy mocks Sean Spicer with motorized podium
NEW YORK - Melissa McCarthy has gone into the streets of Manhattan to lampoon White House press secretary Sean Spicer. The comedian was captured on video Friday morning riding a motorized podium in mi...
May 12, 2017
World cyberattack cripples UK hospitals, demands ransoms
LONDON - Britain’s health service was hit Friday by a huge international cyberattack that froze computers at hospitals across the country - an attack that shut down wards, closed emergency rooms...
May 12, 2017
Egypt's ballet dancers find passion on an isolated stage
CAIRO - Ballet dancer Fady el-Nabarawy feels he can finally breathe again the moment he enters the gates of the Cairo Opera House after a commute from his ramshackle, poor neighbourhood. This is where...
May 12, 2017
Judge: Corrupt ex-LA sheriff's crimes an 'embarrassment'
LOS ANGELES - The effort by former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca and his underlings to derail an FBI investigation into beatings in the jails he ran was dubbed Operation Pandora’s Box. Like the G...
May 12, 2017
GOP lawmaker cautions health care bill is Obamacare 'tweak'
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - After campaigning on repealing the health care law and voting to gut it, an Iowa Republican is cautioning constituents fearful of losing coverage that the House GOP replacement is...
May 12, 2017
North Korea sends protest to US Congress over sanctions
TOKYO - A North Korean parliamentary committee sent a rare letter of protest to the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday over its new package of tougher sanctions. The sanctions were condemned as a...
May 12, 2017
AP FACT CHECK: Trump adrift on tax rates, Canada, econ lingo
WASHINGTON - In an interview with The Economist, President Donald Trump whiffed on a batch of economic facts. He got the Canada-U.S. trade balance wrong, misplaced the U.S. in the world ranks of tax b...
May 12, 2017
4-nation drills postponed after craft runs aground on Guam
Military drills on Guam in which four countries were to practice amphibious landings and moving their troops have been postponed indefinitely after a French landing craft ran aground Friday. The weekl...
May 12, 2017
Philippine police make more child cybersex arrests, rescues
MANILA, Philippines - Authorities in the Philippines have rescued four girls and arrested a mother and two other women for allegedly livestreaming sexually exploitative videos of children to men payin...
May 12, 2017
Argentina's first transgender police chief on duty
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Analia Pasantino served in Argentina’s federal police as a man for 20 years, then she came out as a transgender woman and was forced to resign. She is smiling these day...
May 12, 2017
