Category Archives: World
Only UKIP lawmaker in British Parliament quits anti-EU party
LONDON - The UK Independence Party is losing its only member of the British Parliament in a blow to the upstart anti-Europe party, which has seen bitter feuding between its top figures. Douglas Carswe...
Mar 25, 2017
Third Airbus plane purchased by Iran lands in Tehran
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting that the third of the 100 planes it purchased from Airbus following a landmark nuclear deal with world powers has joined its commerci...
Mar 25, 2017
US acknowledges its forces were behind airstrike on Mosul
BAGHDAD - An airstrike targeting Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul that witnesses say killed at least 100 people was in fact launched by the U.S. military, American officials said Sat...
Mar 25, 2017
Colorado weighs strategy for guarding against pot crackdown
DENVER - Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a potential federal crackdown, even at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax collect...
Mar 25, 2017
Self-inflicted collapse chokes GOP effort to undo Obamacare
WASHINGTON - House Republicans passed roughly 60 bills over the past six years dismembering President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Other than minor tweaks, they knew the measures would g...
Mar 25, 2017
Pope visits Milan housing project; urges compassion for poor
MILAN - Pope Francis focused his one-day visit Saturday to the wealthy northern Italian city of Milan on those marginalized by society, visiting families in a housing project and exhorting clergy and ...
Mar 25, 2017
Latest Rikers brutality case fuels debate over jail's future
NEW YORK - The latest in a string of brutality cases against Rikers Island guards has added fuel to a growing debate on whether New York City’s notoriously violent jail complex has become so dys...
Mar 25, 2017
Man carrying a sword, dressed as Joker arrested in Virginia
WINCHESTER, Va. - Police in Virginia have arrested a man who was dressed as comic book villain the Joker and reportedly carrying a sword. Winchester Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Hall said in...
Mar 25, 2017
Many governors welcome demise of GOP health care bill
CHERRY HILL, N.J. - Governors of both parties had warned Congress for weeks that the Republican health care bill threatened to saddle their states with big costs and potentially leave millions of peop...
Mar 25, 2017
Police clash with anti-Christian mob in southern Egypt
LUXOR, Egypt - Police have used tear gas to disperse an angry mob of Muslims approaching Christian homes in southern Egypt. The Friday clashes injured four policemen and seven of the Muslim villagers....
Mar 25, 2017
