Category Archives: World
In sign of regional disarray, many leaders forgo Arab summit
CAIRO - Arab officials gathered in a tent in the Mauritanian capital Monday, in the most poorly attended Arab League summit in years, a sign of the region’s disarray. Just a handful of leaders f...
Jul 25, 2016
Die-hard Sanders' backers divided on backing Clinton
PHILADELPHIA - Bernie Sanders tried to calm tensions among his delegates Monday at the Democratic National Convention but some weren’t in a listening mood, seething over a lengthy primary campai...
Jul 25, 2016
Marni Nixon, voice of classic movie songs, has died at 86
NEW YORK - Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon, whose singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in such classic movie musicals as “West Side Story,” ”The King and I” a...
Jul 25, 2016
Boston Marathon bombing amputee scales mountain in Ecuador
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet can check mountaineering off her bucket list. The professional ballroom dancer lost a leg in the 2013 finish line attacks and ran the entire 26.2-mile ...
Jul 25, 2016
FIFA bans council member Niersbach in World Cup bids probe
FIFA council member Wolfgang Niersbach, a member of FIFA’s ruling council, was banned from soccer for one year on Monday in the first sanction from the investigation into Germany’s 2006 Wo...
Jul 25, 2016
The Latest: 2 shootings took place outside club last year
FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Latest on a shooting a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida (all times local): 7:10 p.m. State records show this wasn’t the first time that violence had broken out at a Florid...
Jul 25, 2016
Democratic emails: All about the hack, the leak, the discord
PHILADELPHIA - First came the hack, then the leak. Now, the Clinton and Trump campaigns are fighting over Russia’s role in the release of thousands of internal Democratic National Committee emai...
Jul 25, 2016
2 detained in Nice truck attack investigation
PARIS - Two new suspects have been detained in the investigation into the Bastille Day attack in Nice that killed more than 80 people. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that two men hav...
Jul 25, 2016
Turkey issues warrants for 42 journalists amid criticism
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey on Monday issued warrants for the detention of 42 journalists suspected of links to the alleged organizers of a failed military uprising, intensifying concerns that a sweeping ...
Jul 25, 2016
UN mission in Afghanistan finds children bear brunt of war
KABUL - The number of children killed or wounded in Afghanistan’s conflict surged in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period last year, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said...
Jul 25, 2016
