Category Archives: World
Girl retrieving phone on subway tracks hit by train, killed
NEW YORK - Police say a 13-year-old girl trying to retrieve her cellphone after it fell onto New York City subway tracks has been struck and killed by a train. It happened at a station in Queens on Su...
Apr 03, 2017
Attorneys slash claims in Colorado mine spill
DENVER - Economic damage from a Colorado mine waste spill caused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may be far less than originally feared after attorneys drastically reduced some of the larg...
Apr 03, 2017
Egypt's el-Sissi and America's Trump: A common language?
CAIRO - Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a former general who was elected but rules with a heavy hand, may find a kindred spirit in Donald Trump when the two meet on Monday. The two firs...
Apr 03, 2017
Russian police hunt possible accomplices of suicide bomber
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Investigators searched for possible accomplices of a 22-year-old native of the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan identified as the suicide bomber in the St. Petersburg subwa...
Apr 03, 2017
Key fights over evidence persist 2 months before Cosby trial
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - The judge in Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault trial heard arguments Monday without deciding whether the jury will hear Cosby’s decade-old testimony about getting quaaludes to ...
Apr 03, 2017
Kushner, Dunford meet with Iraqi prime minister
BAGHDAD - President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford met Monday in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-...
Apr 03, 2017
Falklands analogy sparks Brexit war of words over Gibraltar
LONDON - Less than a week after asking for a divorce from the European Union, Britain is talking war. The dispute over Gibraltar is a conflict of words, not weapons - a matter of bellicose headlines i...
Apr 03, 2017
Official results confirm Serbia PM Vucic elected president
BELGRADE, Serbia - A near-complete official vote count of Serbia’s presidential election confirmed on Monday that prime minister Aleksandar Vucic has won by a landslide in the first round of vot...
Apr 03, 2017
Poland accuses Russians in plane crash that killed president
WARSAW, Poland - Polish prosecutors alleged Monday that a new analysis of evidence from the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed the Polish president shows that two Russian air traffic controllers a...
Apr 03, 2017
11 Indian sailors on small boat hijacked off Somali coast
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali pirates have seized a small boat, and its 11 Indian crew members, and taken the vessel to along the central coast, a state official said Monday. It is the latest ship targe...
Apr 03, 2017
