Category Archives: World
Newly published files confirm plan to move Assange to Russia
LONDON - Julian Assange: Hacker. Journalist. Diplomat? Newly released Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate the WikiLeaks founder from his embassy hideaway ...
Oct 17, 2018
Water pollution in Iraq threatens Mandaean religious rites
BAGHDAD - Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in the waters to purify t...
Oct 17, 2018
Wendy's worker who put 'Chubby' on customer receipt fired
GASTONIA, N.C. - A franchise owner of a North Carolina Wendy’s says an employee who called a customer “Chubby” on an order has been fired. News outlets report the Carolina Restaurant...
Oct 17, 2018
Migrants moving again in Guatemala, Trump targets Democrats
CHIQUIMULA, Guatemala - More than 2,000 Honduran migrants travelling en masse through Guatemala resumed their journey toward the United States on Wednesday as U.S. President Donald Trump sought to tur...
Oct 17, 2018
Vatican: South Korea's Moon shares faith in peninsula peace
VATICAN CITY - South Korea’s president said he was certain peace could be achieved on the Korean peninsula as he prepared for an audience Thursday with Pope Francis where he’s expected to ...
Oct 17, 2018
Weeping relatives receive bodies of South Korean climbers
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Relatives dressed in black wept in grief Wednesday as the bodies of five South Korean mountain climbers arrived home from Nepal where they died in a storm last week. The ca...
Oct 17, 2018
Fighting in Kashmir city leaves 3 combatants, civilian dead
SRINAGAR, India - Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city in disputed Kashmir on Wednesday after a gunbattle between militants and government forces killed at least two rebels, a civi...
Oct 17, 2018
Indian gov't minister resigns, denies sex harassment claims
NEW DELHI - M.J. Akbar, India’s junior external affairs minister, resigned Wednesday amid accusations by 20 women of sexual harassment during his previous career as one of the country’s mo...
Oct 17, 2018
America's most famous pimp, poised for elected office, dies
PAHRUMP, Nev. - America’s most famous pimp partied for days with porn stars, political pals and others to celebrate his 72ndbirthday, but the revelry ended when Dennis Hof was found dead in one ...
Oct 17, 2018
Pennsylvania priest pleads guilty to sexual abuse of 2 boys
BROOKVILLE, Pa. - One of two Roman Catholic priests charged as a result of the damning Pennsylvania grand jury investigation admitted he sexually abused children, pleading guilty Wednesday to corrupti...
Oct 17, 2018