Category Archives: World

Strong aftershock rattles north Haiti day after deadly quake
PORT-DE-PAIX, Haiti - A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday, even as survivors of the previous day’s temblor were sifting through the rubble of their cinderblock homes. The death tol...
Oct 07, 2018

Palestinian kills 2 Israelis in West Bank industrial zone
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian attacker on Sunday opened fire inside a West Bank industrial zone where Israelis and Palestinians work together, killing two Israelis and seriously wounding a third. The Isra...
Oct 07, 2018
'Tremendous victory': Trump celebrates Kavanaugh win
TOPEKA, Kan. - President Donald Trump at a Kansas rally celebrated the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, condemning Democrats for what he called a “shameless campaign of poli...
Oct 07, 2018
Indonesian officials fear 5,000 missing as Christians pray
PALU, Indonesia - Christians dressed in their tidiest clothes flocked to Sunday sermons in the earthquake and tsunami damaged Indonesian city of Palu, seeking answers as the death toll from the twin d...
Oct 07, 2018

Iran votes to join pact to combat terror financing
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament voted Sunday to join a global convention to cut off terror financing, hoping to avoid further international sanctions as the 2015 nuclear accord unravels. Parlia...
Oct 07, 2018
Cameroon polls close, vote counting begins in key election
YAOUNDE, Cameroon - Polls closed in Cameroon Sunday evening and vote counting began in an election that will likely see Africa’s oldest leader win another term amid fighting and threats from sep...
Oct 07, 2018
Pro-Russian Serb leader wins seat in Bosnia's presidency
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia - Pro-Russia Serb leader Milorad Dodik won a race to fill the Serb seat in Bosnia’s three-member presidency Sunday, deepening ethnic divisions in the country that faced a brut...
Oct 07, 2018
Brazil's far-right candidate falls short of election stunner
SAO PAULO - A far-right former army captain who expresses nostalgia for Brazil’s military dictatorship won the first round of its presidential election by a surprisingly large margin Sunday but ...
Oct 07, 2018
Afghan officials say highway reopened after Taliban assault
KABUL - The Taliban destroyed highway bridges southwest of Kabul during a wide-ranging assault on security forces, cutting off road traffic between the capital and three provinces for most of the day ...
Oct 07, 2018

700 firefighters in Portugal battle wildfire west of Lisbon
SINTRA-CASCAIS, Portugal - Over 700 firefighters battled a wildfire Sunday in a national park west of Lisbon that forced Portuguese authorities to evacuate about 350 people. The fire that broke out ov...
Oct 07, 2018