Category Archives: World
Japan to end 5-year peacekeeping mission in South Sudan
TOKYO - Japan is ending its peacekeeping mission in troubled South Sudan after five years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday. Abe said Japan would not renew the mission after the current rota...
Mar 10, 2017
Helicopter crashes on outskirts of Istanbul; 7 killed
ISTANBUL - A helicopter crashed on a highway on Istanbul’s outskirts Friday after apparently hitting a television tower in dense fog, reports said. All seven people on board were killed, the cit...
Mar 10, 2017
Backed by US troops, SDF confident can capture IS 'capital'
BEIRUT - The main Syrian Kurdish force fighting Islamic State militants in northern Syria said Friday that it has enough fighters to take the extremists’ de facto capital of Raqqa with the help ...
Mar 10, 2017
Masterpiece restored: Stolen Stradivarius will sing again
WASHINGTON - After a meticulous restoration that took more than a year, a Stradivarius violin that was stolen from violinist Roman Totenberg and missing for decades is about to return to the stage. Mi...
Mar 09, 2017
A look at constitutional Court ruling on S.Korea's leader
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - In a nationally televised ruling watched by millions, South Korea’s constitutional Court said Friday that it was upholding the dismissal of impeached President Park G...
Mar 09, 2017
Democratic AGs step up legal fight against Trump travel ban
SEATTLE - In stepping up legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, Democratic attorneys general are trying to use the court system to thwart the executive branch in the sa...
Mar 09, 2017
'Full Frontal' apologizes to cancer patient for Nazi joke
LOS ANGELES - “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” is apologizing for a recent segment in which a cancer patient was described as having “Nazi hair.” A post on the show’s off...
Mar 09, 2017
Guatemala fire death toll rises to 36 amid calls for change
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemala’s president called for a restructuring of his country’s youth shelter system following a fire that killed at least 36 girls at an overcrowded government facility...
Mar 09, 2017
A look at key criminal defendants in South Korean scandal
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Formally removed from office by a historic constitutional Court ruling Friday, Park Geun-hye has lost her presidential immunity from prosecution over a corruption scandal t...
Mar 09, 2017
LAPD seeks thieves thick with makeup after $4.5M heist
Los Angeles police are looking to throw shade at the thieves behind a million-dollar makeup heist. The LAPD said Thursday that it’s investigating after $4.5 million worth of eye shadow was stole...
Mar 09, 2017
