Category Archives: World
Nepal fires chief of earthquake reconstruction agency
KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s government on Wednesday fired the chief of the agency assigned to rebuild the nearly 1 million homes and other structures damaged in a devastating 2015 earthquake, off...
Jan 11, 2017
In Central African Republic, 'impunity on staggering scale'
JOHANNESBURG - The lack of justice in Central African Republic is so acute that some victims are forced to live daily lives alongside their aggressors, Amnesty International said Wednesday, and it urg...
Jan 11, 2017
Norwegian mass murderer says prison isolation 'damaged' him
SKIEN, Norway - Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik told a panel of judges Thursday that his solitary confinement in prison had deeply damaged him and made him even more radical in his neo-...
Jan 11, 2017
Madonna: Trump presidency like 'being stuck in a nightmare'
NEW YORK - Madonna says President-elect Donald Trump winning the White House is “like being dumped by a lover and also being stuck in a nightmare.” The pop icon tells Harper’s Bazaar...
Jan 11, 2017
Germany: 280,000 new migrants last year, far lower than 2015
BERLIN - Germany saw about 280,000 new asylum-seekers arrive last year, less than a third of the previous year’s huge influx of 890,000, the interior minister said Wednesday. While new arrivals ...
Jan 11, 2017
Italy's premier in good condition after surgery
ROME - Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni was in good condition Wednesday after he was hospitalized with a heart problem upon his return from a bilateral meeting in Paris. The 62-year-old underwent surge...
Jan 11, 2017
Obama returns to White House after final Air Force One ride
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama didn’t just say farewell to the nation. He said goodbye to Air Force One, too. Obama’s roundtrip to his Chicago hometown, where he delivered the speech,...
Jan 11, 2017
Relatives of slain churchgoers confront gunman for last time
CHARLESTON, S.C. - One by one, family members of nine slain black parishioners confronted Dylann Roof for the last time Wednesday, shouting at him, offering forgiveness and even offering to visit him ...
Jan 11, 2017
Flooded California residents rescued as major storms recede
HOLLISTER, Calif. - Rescue workers used boats and firetrucks to evacuate dozens of Northern California residents from their flooded homes Wednesday as a drought-busting series of storms began to move ...
Jan 11, 2017
Kardashian robbery probe: Driver, 2 others freed; DNA found
PARIS - French investigators have released a chauffeur for Kim Kardashian West and two other people in their probe into the robbery of more than $10 million worth of jewelry from the star’s Pari...
Jan 11, 2017
