Category Archives: World
1 million children refugees from South Sudan's civil war
NAIROBI, Kenya - More than 1 million children have fled South Sudan’s civil war, two United Nations agencies said Monday, part of the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Another 1 mill...
May 08, 2017
Gas leak in coal mine in central China kills 18 miners
BEIJING - A gas leak in a coal mine in central China has killed 18 people, local authorities said Monday. The leak happened on Sunday morning when miners were working in the shaft of the mine in Youxi...
May 08, 2017
Prime minister says IS fighter's son can return to Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - A 6-year-old Australian boy photographed making an Islamic State movement salute in front of a human body hanging from a cross somewhere in the Middle East was entitled to return...
May 08, 2017
Indonesia to disband hard-line Islamic group Hizbut
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The top Indonesian security minister said Monday the country’s president has ordered the dissolution of a hard-line Islamic group that seeks a global caliphate for Muslim na...
May 08, 2017
Watchdog says Vietnamese officials bribed by log smugglers
BANGKOK - An environmental watchdog has accused Vietnamese government and military officials of taking payoffs to ignore vast smuggling of lucrative lumber from neighbouring Cambodia. Millions of doll...
May 08, 2017
Nations critique Filipino leader's rights record at UN body
GENEVA - A Filipino senator briskly defended the human rights record of President Rodrigo Duterte’s government before a U.N. body on Monday, saying his government always “seeks to uphold t...
May 08, 2017
MTV Awards salute 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'Stranger Things'
LOS ANGELES - Film hit “Beauty and the Beast” and Netflix newcomer “Stranger Things” were the night’s big winners with two trophies apiece as MTV partied with its Movie &...
May 08, 2017
Plan to help save southern New England lobsters up for vote
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - A plan to try to stem the decline of the southern New England lobster population is coming up for a vote in front of an interstate regulatory board. The population of lobsters off...
May 08, 2017
New Hamas chief tours native Gaza, highlights power shift
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - The newly elected leader of Hamas paid tribute in Gaza on Monday to Palestinian prisoners being held in Israel, his first appearance in the new role and a sign of the gro...
May 08, 2017
Nicki Minaj pays college costs for Twitter fans
Nicki Minaj is putting some fans on scholarship. After a fan asked the hip-hop star if she would pay his college tuition on Twitter on Saturday night, Minaj agreed to pay fans’ school costs - on...
May 08, 2017
