Category Archives: World
Thailand pledges justice for Chinese victims of boat tragedy
PHUKET, Thailand - Thailand’s government pledged Sunday to ensure justice for Chinese victims of a tour boat that sank in a storm off the southern resort island of Phuket, killing 42 people and ...
Jul 07, 2018
4 rescued from Thai cave in risky operation; 9 remain inside
MAE SAI, Thailand - Expert divers Sunday rescued four of 12 boys from a flooded cave in northern Thailand where they were trapped with their soccer coach for more than two weeks, as a dangerous and co...
Jul 07, 2018
Behind Ocasio-Cortez's upset victory, an unconventional crew
NEW YORK - A campaign manager who moonlights as an energy healer. A photographer who sings in a heavy metal band. A Muslim progressive activist who runs a cooking blog in her spare time. These are som...
Jul 07, 2018
'The Bachelorette' gets $536K, and Richmond gets a rose
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia tourism officials paid the reality show “The Bachelorette” more than $500,000 to film an episode of the show in Richmond. The Richmond Times-Dispatch filed a Freed...
Jul 07, 2018
Prosecutor: 2 dead in house blast, no foul play suspected
NEWFIELD, N.J. - A house exploded in New Jersey early Saturday, killing a husband and wife and reducing the two-story home to piles of scattered rubble, but no foul play was suspected, authorities sai...
Jul 07, 2018
Wildfires rage through California amid heat rage
LOS ANGELES - Firefighters toiled in stifling heat Saturday on the lines of destructive wildfires across the U.S. West, making progress against some blazes while struggling to tame others that have fo...
Jul 07, 2018
After talks, NKorea accuses US of 'gangster-like' demands
TOKYO - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has delivered a dose of harsh reality to Donald Trump, bashing hopes for a quick denuclearization deal in a pointed rebuke to the president’s top envoy wh...
Jul 07, 2018
Syrian troops celebrate recapture of Jordan border crossing
NASEEB, Syria - Syrian soldiers fanned out across towns and villages in southern Syria Saturday, celebrating the recapture of the main border crossing with Jordan by raising portraits of President Bas...
Jul 07, 2018
Mourners honour 3 killed in anti-India protest in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, India - Thousands participated in the funeral of two young men and a teenage girl in disputed Kashmir on Saturday, hours after police say they were killed when government forces fired at ant...
Jul 07, 2018
May: EU citizens might get preferred treatment post-Brexit
LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May touted the benefits of her latest Brexit proposal to create a partial free trade zone between the U.K. and the European Union, saying Saturday it is possible EU cit...
Jul 07, 2018