Category Archives: World
UN launches independent probe into South Sudan rampage
JUBA, South Sudan - The United Nations secretary-general is launching an independent investigation into allegations that U.N. peacekeepers did not respond to prevent multiple cases of abuse and sexual...
Aug 17, 2016
Rampaging South Sudan troops raped foreigners, killed local
NAIROBI, Kenya - The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice. “Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head,...
Aug 17, 2016
Madonna joins in the stream of celebrities visiting Cuba
HAVANA - Madonna is the latest celebrity to visit Cuba, dancing in a restaurant for her birthday and touring Havana with her family and friends. The singer arrived in Havana on Monday. Excited crowds ...
Aug 17, 2016
AP Sources: Manafort tied to undisclosed foreign lobbying
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012,...
Aug 17, 2016
S. Korea: Senior N. Korean diplomat based in London defects
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A senior North Korean diplomat based in London has defected to South Korea, becoming one of the highest Northern officials to do so, South Korea said Wednesday. Thae Yong H...
Aug 17, 2016
25 years on, Russians tell of how they defeated a coup
MOSCOW - The KGB major was on vacation in the Russian countryside in August 1991 when he woke up to a radio broadcast announcing a state of national emergency. The bulletin contained something else: a...
Aug 17, 2016
FBI taking steps to keep Clinton email files from leaking
WASHINGTON - The FBI is strictly limiting access to documents from its closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and warning members of Congress not to leak them....
Aug 17, 2016
Maryland woman leads effort to donate bras to homeless women
SILVER SPRING, Md. - A Maryland woman has collected and delivered more than 20,000 new and gently used bras and 50,000 feminine hygiene products to shelters around the country. Dana Marlowe, a mother ...
Aug 17, 2016
Are France's burkini bans sexist, or liberating?
PARIS - Male officials are dictating what women can wear on French beaches - and people across a wide swath of French society say that’s a good thing. Decrees issued by several mayors this month...
Aug 17, 2016
Turkey to release 38,000 from jail; frees space for plotters
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey issued a decree Wednesday paving the way for the conditional release of some 38,000 prisoners, the justice minister said - an apparent move to reduce its prison population to m...
Aug 16, 2016
