Category Archives: World
France election: Far-left Melenchon enjoys late poll surge
PARIS - With a bleed-the-rich video game and suggestions of a “Frexit,” French far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is rattling financial markets by rising in polls just 11 days before th...
Apr 12, 2017
British nurse who caught Ebola in West Africa to return
LONDON - A British nurse who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone hopes to return to the West African country next month. Pauline Cafferkey told BBC she plans a fundraising trip Sierra Leone...
Apr 12, 2017
Police probe terror in Dortmund; team loses 3-2 after attack
DORTMUND, Germany - German authorities arrested a suspected Islamic extremist Wednesday in their investigation into a bomb attack on a top German soccer team, while the team - missing a defender wound...
Apr 12, 2017
Shia LeBeouf spending a month living alone in Finland cabin
HELSINKI - Shia LeBeouf’s latest stunt is to spend a month isolated in a cabin in Finland’s remote Lapland region with his only communication with the outside world coming via text message...
Apr 12, 2017
Nigeria thwarts Boko Haram plan to attack US, UK embassies
ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian security officials have thwarted plans by Islamic State group-linked Boko Haram members to attack the embassies of the United States and Britain, authorities said Wednesday. ...
Apr 12, 2017
Swedish couple say 11-year-old daughter died in truck attack
STOCKHOLM - An 11-year-old girl was one of the four people killed when a truck rammed into a crowd in Stockholm, her parents said, while Russian media reported Wednesday that the main suspect in the a...
Apr 12, 2017
AP Exclusive: UN child sex ring left victims but no arrests
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jetsetters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scaven...
Apr 12, 2017
AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout
WASHINGTON - Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. Ukrainian inves...
Apr 12, 2017
Trump administration to lift federal hiring freeze
WASHINGTON - The federal government hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump as one of his first acts in office will be lifted Wednesday. But budget director Mick Mulvaney says many jobs wi...
Apr 12, 2017
Hard-line ex-leader Ahmadinejad stuns Iran with election bid
TEHRAN, Iran - Stunning Iran and disregarding the words of its supreme leader, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Wednesday to run in the country’s May presidential election and upe...
Apr 12, 2017
