Category Archives: World
AP Interview: Kremlin support for Assad not unconditional
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Thursday that Russia’s support for Syrian President Bashar Assad is not unconditional, but that the country demands a full investigation ...
Apr 06, 2017
New Ohio lethal injection process rejected by appeals court
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Ohio’s new three-drug lethal injection process, jeopardizing the upcoming executions of several condemned killers. In a 2-1 decision...
Apr 06, 2017
Trump administration backs away from Baltimore police reform
BALTIMORE - The Trump Justice Department expressed “grave concerns” Thursday about an agreement the Obama administration reached with the city of Baltimore to overhaul its police departmen...
Apr 06, 2017
US court ruling could bring more suits over Nazi-looted art
WASHINGTON - The heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers have spent nearly a decade trying to persuade German officials to return a collection of medieval relics valued at more than $250 million. But the...
Apr 06, 2017
Gambians choose parliament in 1st vote under new leader
BANJUL, Gambia - Gambians voted Thursday in a parliamentary election that was expected to end two decades of domination by the party of former leader Yahya Jammeh. The vote was crucial for the transit...
Apr 06, 2017
Grieving Haitians go into lifetime of debt to fund funerals
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Aspasie Tanis lives hand-to-mouth on the edge of eviction in the best of times, scraping out a living selling packets of spaghetti and cookies outside her low-slung concrete sh...
Apr 06, 2017
Billionaire JB Pritzker to announce Illinois governor bid
CHICAGO - Billionaire businessman J.B. Pritzker is expected to announce a bid for Illinois governor. The Chicago Democrat tweeted Thursday that he was readying for “the big announcement” a...
Apr 06, 2017
Scotland's minister, a Trump critic, says she would meet him
Scotland’s leader Nicola Sturgeon, who has been a critic of Donald Trump, said Wednesday she would agree to meet the U.S. president and try to build on the already strong relationship between Sc...
Apr 06, 2017
Analysis: For Trump, the weight of world's problems sink in
WASHINGTON - For Donald Trump, the reality of the world’s problems may be starting to sink in. Standing in the sunny White House Rose Garden, the president said Wednesday that the gruesome chemi...
Apr 06, 2017
GOP health bill in shambles, House commences two-week break
WASHINGTON - The Republican health care bill remained in shambles Thursday as House leaders threw up their hands and sent lawmakers home for a two-week recess. GOP chiefs announced a modest amendment ...
Apr 06, 2017
