Category Archives: World
Airlines cancel hundreds of flights as hurricane hits US
Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights for Thursday and again Friday as Hurricane Matthew pelted the Florida coast with high winds and heavy rain. The Fort Lauderdale airport shut down on Thursday mor...
Oct 06, 2016
US wants to strengthen agreement to ban Arctic Ocean fishing
PORTLAND, Maine - The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean. Such an agreement would ...
Oct 06, 2016
Flooding threatens US coasts well ahead of Hurricane Matthew
MIAMI - The major threat to the Southeast U.S. won’t be Hurricane Matthew’s pummeling winds, which newer buildings have been constructed to withstand. It will be water - the deadly storm s...
Oct 06, 2016
Jurors begins to deliberate in case against police officers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a murder case against two former New Mexico police officers who prosecutors said killed a mentally ill homeless man as he tried to surrender a...
Oct 06, 2016
HBO can't film Somali-American drama at Minnesota high rise
MINNEAPOLIS - Residents have barred HBO from filming at a Minneapolis high-rise apartment building for what the company describes as a Somali-American family drama series. Minneapolis Public Housing A...
Oct 06, 2016
Likely new UN secretary-general sees 'huge challenges' ahead
LISBON, Portugal - The United Nations’ probable next secretary-general said Thursday he faces “huge challenges” and hopes to see unity and consensus during his expected term at the i...
Oct 06, 2016
Lawyers: Lost evidence, misconduct make defending Cosby hard
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby’s lawyers blame his arrest on sexual assault charges on “a perfect storm” of mistakes by a federal judge and misconduct by an ambitious prosecutor and celeb...
Oct 06, 2016
Mother found not guilty of assaulting assistant principal
PORTSMOUTH, Va. - A Virginia mother accused of hitting an assistant principal at her child’s elementary school in the head, briefly knocking her unconscious, has been found not guilty following ...
Oct 06, 2016
Pakistan's lawmakers toughen penalty for 'honour' killings
ISLAMABAD - Despite objections from religious hard-liners, lawmakers Thursday took the first significant move to curb mounting numbers of “honour” killings in Pakistan, stiffening the pena...
Oct 06, 2016
Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, returns to Neverland
LOS OLIVOS, Calif. - Paris Jackson has returned to Neverland. The daughter of Michael Jackson posted pictures on Instagram from her late father’s famous estate Wednesday, writing “felt so ...
Oct 06, 2016
