Category Archives: World
Cricket Australia to probe ball-tampering, no action yet
Cricket fans hoping for a swift resolution to the Australian test team’s ball-tampering scandal won’t get it. Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said an investigative team ...
Mar 24, 2018

Stars affected by violence join students' gun-reform rallies
LOS ANGELES - Paul McCartney, Common, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer and other stars played supporting roles at nationwide gun-reform rallies dominated by teenage survivors’ emotional speeches. Still,...
Mar 24, 2018

NYC firefighter killed on movie set promoted posthumously
NEW YORK - A firefighter who was killed battling a fire on a New York City movie set has been posthumously promoted to lieutenant. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro announced fir...
Mar 24, 2018

Anguished students take aim at gun laws, next election
Charlie Goodman looked at the massive crowd around him, the largest youth-led protest in Washington since the Vietnam War era. He listened to people speak about toughening gun laws. They included some...
Mar 24, 2018

Peru takes ex-president's passport amid corruption probe
LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian judge on Saturday barred recently resigned President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from leaving the South American nation for 18 months while he is investigated for possible money laun...
Mar 24, 2018

China tells US it will defend interests after Trump tariffs
BEIJING - China’s newly appointed economic czar told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday that Beijing is ready to defend its interests after President Donald Trump announced plans...
Mar 24, 2018
Indian court jails powerful politician for embezzling funds
PATNA, India - A powerful Indian politician was sentenced Saturday to 14 years in prison for embezzling 37 million rupees ($570,000) from a state government’s treasury while he was the stateR...
Mar 24, 2018

Hundreds gather to leave second pocket in Syria's Ghouta
BEIRUT - Hundreds of members of a rebel group and their relatives boarded Saturday 17 buses in preparation to leave eastern Ghouta to opposition-held areas north of the country Saturday as part of an ...
Mar 24, 2018
UK watchdog assessing evidence from Cambridge Analytica raid
LONDON - Britain’s information regulator says it is assessing evidence gathered from a raid on the office of data firm Cambridge Analytica, carried out as part of an investigation into alleged m...
Mar 24, 2018

Egypt: Car bomb in Alexandria kills 2 policemen
CAIRO - A bomb placed under a nearby car exploded Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria as the city security chief’s convoy passed by, killing two policemen and wounding four others, the In...
Mar 24, 2018