Category Archives: World
New TV ad shows Marines looking for a few good women
WASHINGTON - A Marine in full combat gear moves through dark, frigid water, gripping an M-16 rifle, before plunging under barbed wire and through a submerged drainage pipe. It is only when the fighter...
May 12, 2017
Malaysia firefighters rescue turtle trapped in power station
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian firefighters have rescued a 60-kilogram (132 pounds) turtle found firmly stuck to a flood gate at a power station near the Malacca Strait. District Fire Chief Razif ...
May 12, 2017
Turkey detains ex-stock exchange workers over links to coup
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained 62 former employees of the Istanbul stock exchange over their alleged links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed for las...
May 12, 2017
Iraqi's Shiite militias launch anti-IS push west of Mosul
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi official says the country’s Shiite-led militia force has launched an operation to retake a small village held by the Islamic State group west of the embattled city of Mosul Ab...
May 12, 2017
Helicopter crew warns paddle-boarders about nearby sharks
DANA POINT, Calif. - A sheriff’s helicopter crew warned a group of paddle-boarders to get out of the ocean after spotting more than a dozen great white sharks along the Southern California coast...
May 11, 2017
US Treasury chief to brief key allies on Trump policies
BARI, Italy - Top finance officials from seven advanced economies have gathered to hear more about U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic policies on taxation and trade as well as to look for wa...
May 11, 2017
Strong storms spawn tornado in Oklahoma, threaten region
NORMAN, Okla. - Strong storms spawned one tornado, and possibly two in Oklahoma, and threaten parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. The storms stretched from northeast Texas through the mi...
May 11, 2017
Sacramento couple elopes at Mount Everest
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A traditional wedding just wasn’t enough for one Sacramento couple. The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2pDu5Gu ) James Sissom and Ashley Schmieder married at 17,600 f...
May 11, 2017
Man seeking free pizza rescued from snowy Arizona mountain
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - A man had to be treated for hypothermia this week and rescued from a snowy northern Arizona mountain that he hiked up wearing only shorts and other light clothing in a quest for fre...
May 11, 2017
New Zealand's ambitious plan to save birds: Kill every rat
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand has set itself an environmental goal so ambitious it’s been compared to putting a man on the moon: ridding the entire nation of every last rat, possum and s...
May 11, 2017
