Category Archives: World
Report: Airstrikes on Syria pro-government positions kill 12
BEIRUT - Airstrikes overnight in eastern Syria killed at least 12 pro-government fighters, all reportedly foreign nationals, a war-monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian government-run media blame...
May 24, 2018
Iraq says suicide bomber kills 7 in northern Baghdad park
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew himself up late Wednesday at a crowded park in Iraq’s capital, killing at least seven people in the first such attack in Baghdad since the start a week ago of the...
May 24, 2018
Texas shooting survivors seek purpose in shadow of Parkland
SANTA FE, Texas - She had seen the memorials on television, the familiar white crosses erected after each massacre, and now there were 10 of them lined up on her high school’s lawn. Kyleigh Elgi...
May 24, 2018
California court: Defendants get crack at some social media
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and other social media companies can be compelled to give criminal defendants preparing for trial user content that is already public, California’s highest court ruled T...
May 24, 2018
Disputed pipeline backed by Trump is focus of court hearing
BILLINGS, Mont. - Trump administration attorneys were due in a Montana courtroom Thursday to defend the disputed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline against environmental groups and Native American groups ...
May 24, 2018
Clinton 'wants to be helpful' to Democrats. Can she?
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Hillary Clinton is not going away. Standing on a convention stage Wednesday, the former Democratic presidential candidate cheered a primary election candidate from Georgia and endors...
May 24, 2018
Space station accepts special delivery from Virginia
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The International Space Station accepted delivery Thursday of more than 7,000 pounds of supplies from Virginia. A commercial cargo ship arrived at the orbiting lab three days af...
May 24, 2018
South Sudan's quiet victims of war: With HIV, without help
YAMBIO, South Sudan - Tracing his fingers over his bald head, the 11-year-old boy shifts uncomfortably in his chair. “I’m scared,” James Seferino says. “All I know is that if I...
May 24, 2018
Congo says confirmed Ebola cases have reached 31; 9 deaths
KINSHASA, Congo - Congo’s fight to rein in a deadly Ebola outbreak has authorities crossing the border to buy up available thermometers, a World Health Organization official said as the health m...
May 24, 2018
Human rights an afterthought ahead of US-North Korea summit
WASHINGTON - Ahead of a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump’s focus has been on stagecraft, the will-they-or-won’t-they drama and visions of a legac...
May 24, 2018