Category Archives: World
UK police race to find source of new nerve agent poisoning
AMESBURY, England - British police scoured sections of Salisbury and Amesbury in southwest England on Friday, searching for a small vial feared to be contaminated with traces of the deadly nerve agent...
Jul 06, 2018
AP Exclusive: Washington psychiatric hospital called 'hell'
SEATTLE - Behind tall brick walls and secure windows, hundreds of patients at Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital live in conditions that fail U.S. health and safety standards, while...
Jul 06, 2018
Toxic tanneries forced to move pollute new Bangladesh site
SAVAR, Bangladesh - Bangladesh tanneries prepping leather for shoes, belts, wallets and purses are dumping toxic chemicals into a river at a new industrial complex more than a year after the governmen...
Jul 06, 2018
Hurricane Beryl forms in Atlantic, heads for east Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Atlantic season’s first hurricane, Beryl, formed Friday and headed for a weekend push into the eastern Caribbean, threatening islands still struggling to recover from...
Jul 06, 2018
US adds a solid 213,000 jobs; unemployment up to 4 pct.
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers kept up a brisk hiring pace in June by adding 213,000 jobs, a sign of confidence in the economy despite the start of a potentially punishing trade war with China. The job g...
Jul 06, 2018
US newsrooms fall silent to honour 5 slain at Maryland paper
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Newsrooms usually abuzz with approaching deadlines fell oddly silent as journalists nationwide paused to honour five people shot dead a week before at a Maryland newspaper. At a tempo...
Jul 06, 2018
Suspect in Charlottesville attack pleads not guilty
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - An Ohio man pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges in a deadly car attack on a crowd of protesters opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia. James Alex Fields Jr...
Jul 06, 2018
Thai officials aim to rescue kids from cave before rain hits
MAE SAI, Thailand - Worried that heavy monsoon rain could soon make the job even more difficult, Thai officials said Saturday that they may need to quickly rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a...
Jul 06, 2018
Pakistani court sentences ex-PM Sharif to 10 years in prison
ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani anti-graft tribunal on Friday announced a much-awaited ruling in a corruption case against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sentencing him to 10 years in prison over purchas...
Jul 06, 2018
'Maze Runner' author Dashner says he's working on new book
LOS ANGELES - “The Maze Runner” author James Dashner says he’s working on a new book. Dashner tweeted late Thursday that he was working on new material and wasn’t using notes a...
Jul 06, 2018