Category Archives: World
Adina Pintilie's "Touch Me Not" wins Berlin's Golden Bear
BERLIN - “Touch Me Not,” an experimental movie about intimacy from Romanian director Adina Pintilie, won the top Golden Bear prize at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday. Th...
Feb 24, 2018

Female Nobel laureates in Bangladesh to meet Rohingya women
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Three female Nobel Peace laureates began a weeklong trip to Bangladesh on Saturday to meet Rohingya Muslim women who were tortured and raped by soldiers in Myanmar before fleeing t...
Feb 24, 2018

Manafort indictment sparks hunt for Europeans paid to lobby
KIEV, Ukraine - A new indictment against former Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort focused a spotlight Saturday on uncovering the former European leaders who prosecutors contend were secretly p...
Feb 24, 2018

NRA, Florida face backlash after latest school shooting
NEW YORK - The National Rifle Association, and now the State of Florida, faced a growing backlash Saturday as companies cut ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre, and student s...
Feb 24, 2018
Charged 'Putin's chef' runs news sites along with troll army
MOSCOW - He’s been indicted in the U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election with an army of trolls and his private military company has trodden battlefields in Ukraine and Syria. Stil...
Feb 24, 2018
Death toll from twin blasts in Somalia's capital rises to 21
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Authorities say the death toll in a pair of explosions Friday evening in Somalia’s capital has risen to 21. The director of Aamin Ambulance service, Dr. Abdirahman Abdulqadi...
Feb 24, 2018
Damascus suburb strikes kill scores, UN votes for cease-fire
BEIRUT - A new wave of airstrikes and shelling on eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus left at least 22 people dead and dozens wounded Saturday, raising the death toll of a week of bombing i...
Feb 24, 2018
Officials say suicide bomber kills 2 in Afghan capital
KABUL - A suicide bomber killed at least two and wounded seven in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group in the diplomatic area of Afghanistan’s capital on Saturday, and at least 18 soldie...
Feb 23, 2018
Corps: Agency worked to inform on Harvey flood risk
HOUSTON - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that leading up to and during Hurricane Harvey it “worked diligently” with officials to inform the public on flooding risks from Hous...
Feb 23, 2018
US deportations targeting more people with no crime records
SAN DIEGO - People arrested by deportation officers increasingly have no criminal backgrounds, according to figures released Friday, reflecting the Trump administration’s commitment to cast a wi...
Feb 23, 2018