Category Archives: World
Poll finds partisan divide in concerns for election security
ATLANTA - With the midterm elections less than a month away, a strong majority of Americans are concerned the nation’s voting systems might be vulnerable to hackers, according to a poll released...
Oct 10, 2018
Turkish media: Video shows team of alleged Saudi assassins
ISTANBUL - Two Gulfstream jets carrying 15 Saudis landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport before dawn on the day last week that journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate and vanished. ...
Oct 10, 2018
Haley became a popular UN diplomat despite Trump policies
CAMEROON, Cameroon - Nikki Haley came to her job as the top U.S. diplomat at the United Nations with no foreign policy experience, but in less than two years she made many friends - even among ambassa...
Oct 10, 2018
Long after they died, military sees surge in identifications
BELLEVUE, Neb. - Nearly 77 years after repeated torpedo strikes tore into the USS Oklahoma, killing hundreds of sailors and Marines, Carrie Brown leaned over the remains of a serviceman laid out on a ...
Oct 10, 2018
Trump trashes Democrats' Medicare for All plan in op-ed
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is stepping up his attack on Democrats over a health care proposal called Medicare for All, claiming it “would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefi...
Oct 10, 2018
Pope compares abortion to hiring a hit man to solve problems
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis compared abortion to a mafia-style killing Wednesday, saying it’s the equivalent of hiring a hit man to “take out a human life to solve a problem.” Franci...
Oct 10, 2018
2 men killed, woman wounded in Florida outdoor mall shooting
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Authorities say two men were killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting at a Florida outdoor mall. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said during a news conference Wednesday that ...
Oct 10, 2018
Virginia Medieval re-enactor fatally impales self with lance
WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. - A Medieval knight re-enactor has impaled himself with his lance during a performance and died. News outlets report 53-year-old Peter Barclay, of Virginia, was competing in an eques...
Oct 10, 2018
10 dead in torrential flooding on Spain's Mallorca island
MADRID - At least 10 people died on the Spanish island of Mallorca after a torrential rainstorm caused flash flooding that left a trail of piled vehicles and damaged infrastructure from surges of wate...
Oct 10, 2018
Wisconsin man gets 22 years for trying to induce miscarriage
APPLETON, Wis. - A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of spiking his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with an abortion-inducing drug. Forty-five-year-old Man...
Oct 10, 2018