Category Archives: World
Powerful storms kill at least 43 across northern India
LUCKNOW, India - Powerful winds and rainstorms swept across a crowded swath of northern India, demolishing houses, uprooting trees and killing at least 43 people as the winds turned the skies brown wi...
May 14, 2018
The Latest: Hamas vows to continue Gaza protests
JERUSALEM - The Latest on the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and Palestinian protests (all times local): 3 p.m. A senior figure in Gaza’s ruling Hamas group says mass border protests a...
May 14, 2018
Police: Indonesia suicide bombings work of 2 families
SURABAYA, Indonesia - An Indonesian family brought its 7-year-old daughter to a suicide bomb attack it launched Monday on the police headquarters in the country’s second-largest city, authoritie...
May 13, 2018
Better late than never: Library gets book 47 years overdue
SAN FRANCISCO - A book nearly five decades overdue has been returned to the San Francisco Public Library. The copy of Eldridge Cleaver’s memoir “Soul On Ice” was due back at the Eure...
May 13, 2018
Las Vegas lawyer who defends DUI cases facing own DUI charge
LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas attorney who often defends drunken driving suspects is facing a bench trial after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. The Las Vegas Review-Journal repor...
May 13, 2018
Cannes: 'Ida' director plunges deeper into Polish history
CANNES, France - While the rest of the world, and the Academy Awards, were celebrating Pawel Pawlikowski’s film “Ida” as one of the best films of 2013, the quiet, black-and-white fil...
May 13, 2018
NBC speeding up trend of revived comedy series
NEW YORK - NBC is turbo-charging the trend of reviving cancelled comedies with its pickup of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” The network quickly swooped in after Fox dumped it last week, adding it t...
May 13, 2018
Pompeo: NKorea needs US security assurances for nuke pact
WASHINGTON - The United States is offering assurances to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as it seeks to put in motion the potential for a sweeping nuclear deal ahead of President Donald Trump’s ...
May 13, 2018
NewsAlert: French judicial official says friend of dead Paris knife attacker has been detained for questioning in Strasbourg
PARIS - French judicial official says friend of dead Paris knife attacker has been detained for questioning in Strasbourg. More coming. The Associated Press
May 13, 2018
2 British tourists freed after being kidnapped in Congo
KINSHASA, Congo - Two British tourists have been released in eastern Congo two days after being kidnapped, according to announcements Sunday by Virunga National Park and the British foreign secretary....
May 13, 2018