Category Archives: World
13 years for ex-high school student in plot to join al-Qaida
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A man who as a teenager was seen on surveillance video proclaiming his commitment to jihad was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 years in prison despite his tearful pleas to a judge tha...
Jan 10, 2017
Investigators: 'Inside job' suspected in Kardashian robbery
PARIS - Investigators in Paris focused Tuesday on the possibility that the October robbery of more than $10 million worth of jewelry from Kim Kardashian West was an inside job following the arrests of...
Jan 10, 2017
Life or death legal journey for airport shooting suspect
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A legal journey that could mean life or death for the suspect in the Florida airport mass shooting has begun with appointment of a public defender to represent the Iraq war vet...
Jan 10, 2017
'Yes we did' - Obama bids farewell in nostalgic last speech
CHICAGO - President Barack Obama bid farewell to the nation Tuesday in an emotional speech that sought to comfort a country on edge over rapid economic changes, persistent security threats and the ele...
Jan 10, 2017
I'd stand up to Trump as AG, Sessions tells senators
WASHINGTON - Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions fervently rejected “damnably false” accusations of past racist comments Tuesday as he challenged Democratic concerns about the civil rights commitme...
Jan 10, 2017
Court backs Swiss that Muslim girls must attend swim class
GENEVA - A European court has rejected an appeal by a Turkish-born couple who were fined in Switzerland for keeping their daughters out of mixed-gender, mandatory public school swimming lessons for re...
Jan 10, 2017
Iranians mourn as former leader Rafsanjani interred
TEHRAN, Iran - Hundreds of thousands mourned former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Tuesday, wailing in grief as his body was interred at a Tehran shrine alongside the leader of the coun...
Jan 10, 2017
Norwegian mass murderer Breivik makes Nazi salute at court
SKIEN, Norway - Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute as he walked into a courtroom at a high-security prison where judges on Tuesday began reviewing a ruling that his soli...
Jan 10, 2017
Bombs near government offices in Afghan capital kill 38
KABUL - Two large bombs - one triggered by a suicide attacker - exploded near government offices Tuesday, killing at least 38 people and wounding dozens of others in the deadliest Taliban violence in ...
Jan 10, 2017
Cyprus leaders tackle power-sharing in Geneva peace talks
GENEVA - The leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus delved Tuesday into how power would be shared if the country is reunified as a federation, while a presidential spokesman said swift agreement was not...
Jan 10, 2017
