Category Archives: World
Court mood is jovial as Kavanaugh takes his place on bench
WASHINGTON - Brett Kavanaugh took the bench with his new Supreme Court colleagues for the first time Tuesday in a jovial atmosphere that was strikingly at odds with the tension and rancour surrounding...
Oct 09, 2018
Turkey to search Saudi Consulate for missing journalist
ISTANBUL - Turkey said Tuesday it will search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as it investigates why journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished there a week ago, an extraordinary probe of a diplomatic post a...
Oct 09, 2018
Major Hurricane Michael bearing down on Florida Panhandle
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Fast and furious Hurricane Michael barrelled toward the Florida Panhandle late Tuesday night with 125 mph winds and a potentially catastrophic storm surge of 13 feet, giving tens o...
Oct 09, 2018
10 minutes of terror: A quake, a tsunami and a missing son
PALU, Indonesia - The Muslim call to prayer had just started echoing across the Indonesian city of Palu when Musrifah’s home began to shake violently. Family photos fell from the walls. Dishes a...
Oct 09, 2018
Yemeni smiths beat missiles into knives, not ploughshares
CAIRO - Sometimes, the raw material of Ali Ghomari’s work comes screaming from the skies over Yemen. Missiles fired by Saudi-led coalition jets rain down on militiamen and civilians alike, killi...
Oct 09, 2018
Indonesia says death toll in Sulawesi quake rises past 2,000
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has climbed past 2,000, the disaster agency said Tuesday, as authorities prepared to end the se...
Oct 09, 2018
Limo driver's family believes he was given an unsafe vehicle
SCHOHARIE, N.Y. - Relatives of the limousine driver involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York said Tuesday they believe he was unwittingly assigned an unsafe vehicle. The family of...
Oct 09, 2018
A look at limo crash victims: Veteran died on 34th birthday
SCHOHARIE, N.Y. - A professor of geology. A pair of newlyweds. A former Marine who served in Iraq. Four sisters celebrating the birthday of one of their own. They are among the 20 people who died in S...
Oct 09, 2018
10 hurt in Hollywood promotional event by rapper Phora
LOS ANGELES - Authorities say 10 people have been injured at a Hollywood rap event after a possible stampede. It happened shortly after 9 p.m. Monday outside the Hollywood & Highland shopping cent...
Oct 09, 2018
Humpback whale calf rescued from net off Australian beach
BRISBANE, Australia - A whale calf has been freed after becoming tangled in a shark net off the Australian east coast. Experts from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Sea World Gold Coast...
Oct 09, 2018