Category Archives: World
Taliban hold talks with US envoy in Qatar
ISLAMABAD - The Taliban have held three days of talks with U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in the Gulf state of Qatar, where the Afghan insurgent group has a political office, a Taliban official and anoth...
Nov 18, 2018
Grenade attack on northern India prayer hall kills 3
AMRITSAR, India - Three people were killed and over a dozen injured on Sunday when two men on a motorbike targeted a prayer hall with a grenade in northern India, police said. The two masked men threw...
Nov 18, 2018
Swimmer in Australia dies after being stung by stingray
SYDNEY, Australia - A swimmer in Australia has died of a heart attack after he was stung by a stingray. Police say the 42-year-old man went into cardiac arrest on Saturday at Lauderdale Beach, east of...
Nov 17, 2018
Democrat Cisneros nabs GOP House seat in Southern California
LOS ANGELES - Democrat Gil Cisneros captured a Republican-held U.S. House seat in Southern California on Saturday, capping a Democratic rout in which the party picked up six congressional seats in the...
Nov 17, 2018
Cyclone kills 33 in India with thousands in relief camps
NEW DELHI - A powerful cyclone in southern India has killed at least 33 people, caused massive damage to homes and roads and drove tens of thousands of people into relief camps, officials said. India&...
Nov 17, 2018
Pence, Xi trade barbs in speeches at Pacific summit
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence traded barbs in speeches at a summit of world leaders Saturday, outlining competing visions for global ...
Nov 17, 2018
Migrants won't see armed US soldiers on border
SAN DIEGO - As thousands of migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers converge on the doorstep of the United States, what they won’t find are armed American soldiers standing guar...
Nov 17, 2018
Melania Trump's Moment: first lady flexes muscles in big way
WASHINGTON - It turns out there is more than one Trump who can employ a few well-chosen words as a poison dart. With a bombshell public statement this week, it was first lady Melania Trump who reveale...
Nov 17, 2018
Death toll rises to 76 in California fire as Trump visits
CHICO, Calif. - Nearly 1,300 people remain unaccounted for and the death toll from the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century climbed to 76, authorities said Saturday, hours after President D...
Nov 17, 2018
Lawyer for WikiLeaks' Assange says he would fight charges
WASHINGTON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not willingly travel to the United States to face charges filed under seal against him, one of his lawyers said, foreshadowing a possible fight over ...
Nov 17, 2018