Category Archives: World

CAIRO - An Egyptian military court on Tuesday convicted the country’s former anti-graft chief of insulting the armed forces and sentenced him to five years in prison, according to two defence la...

LONDON - A British judge on Tuesday said the parents of a terminally ill toddler cannot take him to Italy for treatment, a course of action U.K. courts have said would be futile and wrong. Justice Ant...

ISTANBUL - Turkish officials say dozens were slightly injured after an earthquake in southeastern Turkey. The earthquake struck Samsat village in the province of Adiyaman early Tuesday at 3.34 a.m. lo...

NASHVILLE - In a story April 24 about the Waffle House shooting suspect, The Associated Press, relying on a statement from the suspect’s former employer, erroneously reported that the FBI called...

WASHINGTON - It landed with a thud on newsstands at Walmart and rural supermarkets last month: Ninety-seven fawning pages saluting Saudi Arabia, whose ambitious crown prince was soon to arrive in the ...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby’s lawyers urged a jury Tuesday to acquit the 80-year-old comedian of sexual assault charges they said were based on “flimsy, silly, ridiculous evidence,”...

MEXICO CITY - Authorities in the western Mexico state of Jalisco say they believe three film students missing since last month were killed and dissolved in acid. The Jalisco Attorney General’s O...

BEIJING - Police in a southern Chinese city have caught a man suspected of setting a fire at a three-story building Tuesday that killed 18 people and injured five others. The public security bureau of...

HOUSTON - Former President George H.W. Bush was “responding and recovering” to treatment at a Houston hospital on Tuesday for an infection that had spread to his blood, according to a fami...

MINNEAPOLIS - Prince’s heirs have sued Walgreens and the Illinois hospital that treated the music superstar after he suffered from an opioid overdose, alleging that a doctor and various pharmaci...