Category Archives: World
New Zimbabwe documentary on massacres takes aim at president
HARARE, Zimbabwe - A new documentary on massacres by Zimbabwe’s military has led to harsh exchanges as the 1980s killings challenge a new president who preaches unity but refuses to apologize fo...
Oct 18, 2018
2 'Love & Hip Hop' stars arrested in separate incidents
ATLANTA - Two stars of this past season of VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” have been arrested in separate incidents in metropolitan Atlanta. Atasha Chizaah Jefferson, known as To...
Oct 18, 2018
'I'll walk in my broken shoes': Mom, daughter flee Venezuela
PAMPLONA, Colombia - As night approached, Sandra Cadiz wrapped her shivering daughter in a blanket and prayed for a ride up the frigid Colombian mountaintop known as “the icebox.” Ten-year...
Oct 18, 2018
Farm-rich Salinas exemplifies California's housing struggles
SALINAS, Calif. - Middle-school English teacher Maryam Powers doesn’t take vacations. To earn additional money, she picks up an extra period of teaching when she can and mentors new hires. But t...
Oct 18, 2018
A look at Salinas, California, farm-rich but unaffordable
SALINAS, Calif. - Here’s a look at some key information about Salinas, one of the nation’s least affordable metro areas to live. It’s a phenomenon that’s plaguing California, f...
Oct 18, 2018
Man linked to Saudi prince at consulate when writer vanished
ISTANBUL - A member of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage during several trips abroad walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul just before writer Jamal Khashoggi vanished ther...
Oct 18, 2018
Khashoggi warns in last column of free rein to silence media
WASHINGTON - The Washington Post has published a new column by missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in which he warns that governments in the Middle East “have been given free rein to continue s...
Oct 18, 2018
Analysis: With 'America First,' where do human rights rank?
WASHINGTON - If it’s an “America First” presidency, where does that rank human rights? President Donald Trump’s refusal to put public pressure on Saudi Arabia over the disappea...
Oct 18, 2018
Crimean city turns to mourning 20 victims of school attack
MOSCOW - While Crimean authorities searched for clues that might help explain why a teenager gunned down 20 people at his vocational school before killing himself, the stunned city of Kerch prepared t...
Oct 18, 2018
Facebook's election 'war room' takes aim at fake information
MENLO PARK, Calif. - In an otherwise innocuous part of Facebook’s expansive Silicon Valley campus, a locked door bears a taped-on sign that reads “War Room.” Behind the door lies a n...
Oct 18, 2018