Category Archives: World
Girlfriend's on-air killing drives anchorman into politics
BLACKSBURG, Va. - The tipping point for Chris Hurst came last fall while reporting on a shooting at a rail car factory. When the camera turned off, he wept. Just more than a year earlier, the 29-year-...
Apr 30, 2017
Iranian filmmaker imprisoned over his work released early
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An award-winning Iranian filmmaker imprisoned over his work has been released after serving about five months of his yearlong sentence, though he doesn’t know wheth...
Apr 30, 2017
14 killed by storms and flooding in South and Midwest
CANTON, Texas - At least 14 people have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the South and Midwest by a storm that also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas on Sunday. Tornadoes hit...
Apr 30, 2017
Philippines says Trump called Duterte to affirm alliance
MANILA, Philippines - U.S. President Donald Trump has called Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte and expressed Washington’s commitment to their treaty alliance and his interest in developing ̶...
Apr 30, 2017
Famed Swiss climber killed near Mount Everest in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal - A Swiss climber acclaimed for his rapid ascents - including scaling dozens of peaks in the Alps in a little more than two months - died Sunday in a mountaineering accident near Moun...
Apr 30, 2017
Turkey threatens further strikes on US-allied Syrian Kurds
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday his country may take further action against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria and insisted U.S. support for such groups “mus...
Apr 30, 2017
Official: Deaths reported, dozens hospitalized after tornado
CANTON, Texas - Authorities say fatalities have been reported and dozens of people were taken to hospitals after a tornado hit a small city in East Texas. Powerful storms swept through Canton early Sa...
Apr 29, 2017
Fyre Fest fiasco: Bahamas party lives, dies on social media
In this day and age, the young and beautiful live and die on social media. And it’s been a sudden and ugly death for the ill-fated Fyre Festival, a multiday music, art and culture party that pro...
Apr 29, 2017
British heavyweight boxing star Joshua knocks out Klitschko
LONDON - Anthony Joshua wasn’t wrong when he raised his hands in victory after knocking Wladimir Klitschko down in the fifth round of what looked like a one-sided heavyweight title fight. He was...
Apr 29, 2017
Pentagon: blast kills US service member outside Mosul
BAGHDAD - A U.S. service member in Iraq was killed Saturday by an explosive device outside Mosul, according to a statement released by the Pentagon. The Pentagon said the service member died from woun...
Apr 29, 2017
