Category Archives: World
Berlin attack suspect slain in shootout with Italian police
MILAN - A routine request for ID papers outside a deserted train station in a Milan suburb at 3 a.m. Friday led to a police shootout that killed the Tunisian fugitive wanted in the deadly Christmas ma...
Dec 23, 2016
Berlin truck attack suspect killed in Milan police shootout
MILAN - The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan, ending a Europe-wide manhunt, Italy’s ...
Dec 23, 2016
Assad won back Aleppo, but immense challenges lie ahead
BEIRUT - Hundreds of people returned to eastern Aleppo neighbourhoods on Friday to check on their homes after the last opposition fighters left the city, picking through debris and wreckage for person...
Dec 23, 2016
Australia police: Christmas Day bomb plot foiled, 5 detained
CANBERRA, Australia - Police in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day attacks using explosives, knives and a gun in the heart of the country’s second-l...
Dec 22, 2016
In icy Alaska, footwear options abound to stay upright
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Darrell Bachmann doesn’t wear ruby slippers, but when he clicks his heel, something magical happens. Bachmann invented KickSpikes, a boot designed to walk on ice. Kick a butt...
Dec 22, 2016
2 Kosovo-born men held in suspected German mall attack plot
BERLIN - Two Kosovo-born brothers were detained Friday on suspicion that they were planning to carry out an attack on a shopping mall in western Germany, days after a truck attack in Berlin that kille...
Dec 22, 2016
Dozens injured in Manhattan high-rise fire
NEW YORK - Dozens of people were injured in a fire at a high-rise building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The blaze broke out in a third floor apartment just before 5 p.m. Thursday and spread t...
Dec 22, 2016
Final test results confirm Ebola vaccine highly effective
GENEVA - Final test results confirm an experimental Ebola vaccine is highly effective, a major milestone that could help prevent the spread of outbreaks like the one that killed thousands in West Afri...
Dec 22, 2016
Authorities: 'Godfather of Grass' arrested in Canada
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Authorities say a man known as the “Godfather of Grass” has been arrested in Canada after eight years on the run. The U.S. Marshals Service says authorities sought John R...
Dec 22, 2016
Australia police: Christmas Day bomb plot foiled, 5 detained
CANBERRA, Australia - Police in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in the heart of the country’s second-largest city, officials said Fr...
Dec 22, 2016
