Category Archives: World
Utah governor says he will approve strictest DUI limit in US
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah’s governor announced Thursday that he will sign legislation giving the predominantly Mormon state the strictest DUI threshold in the country, a change that restaurant group...
Mar 23, 2017
Africa has worst hunger crisis in 70 years amid budget cuts
JOHANNESBURG - Africa faces the world’s largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, with more than 20 million people facing starvation, and any cut in funding to humanitarian agencies working in fam...
Mar 23, 2017
London defiant as IS claims attack by British ex-con, 52
LONDON - Authorities on Thursday identified a 52-year-old Briton as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament in London, saying he had a long criminal reco...
Mar 23, 2017
Shaken but defiant, Parliament resumes work after attack
LONDON - Lawmakers and lords, researchers and reporters, cleaners and catering staff returned to Britain’s Parliament Thursday, as Britain’s seat of government shook off its shock and got ...
Mar 23, 2017
Death rates up for middle age whites with little education
WASHINGTON - A sobering portrait of less-educated middle-age white Americans emerged Thursday with new research showing them dying disproportionately from what one expert calls “deaths of despai...
Mar 23, 2017
ABC News says 3 of its Twitter accounts were hacked
NEW YORK - ABC News said three of its Twitter accounts were hacked Thursday morning, sending out profanity-filled tweets to its millions of followers. The tweets have since been deleted and ABC News s...
Mar 23, 2017
A look at victims of the attack outside London's Parliament
LONDON - The four victims killed and at least 30 wounded in the attack in Westminster were a cosmopolitan snapshot of one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities. The dead included a British pol...
Mar 23, 2017
Let there be light: German scientists test 'artificial sun'
BERLIN - Scientists in Germany flipped the switch Thursday on what’s being described as “the world’s largest artificial sun,” a device they hope will help shed light on new way...
Mar 23, 2017
The Latest: Dozens of French teenagers return to homeland
LONDON - The latest on the attack outside Britain’s Parliament (all times local): 11 p.m. Dozens of French teenagers have returned to their homeland after a traumatic school trip to London durin...
Mar 23, 2017
Trump Jr. called a 'disgrace' for criticizing London mayor
LONDON - Donald Trump Jr. is facing criticism for a tweet sent in the hours after Wednesday’s London attack that included a months-old comment from London Mayor Sadiq Khan that terror attacks ar...
Mar 23, 2017
