Category Archives: World
Original Picasso print stolen from Milwaukee art gallery
MILWAUKEE - An original Pablo Picasso print worth up to an estimated $50,000 was stolen from a downtown Milwaukee art gallery. WITI-TV reports appraiser Bill DeLind says his business partner noticed t...
Feb 19, 2018
Police arrest 5 who killed orangutan in Borneo with air gun
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Four Indonesian farmers and a 13-year-old boy admitted they stabbed, clubbed and shot a critically endangered orangutan at least 130 times with an air gun to protect their pineapp...
Feb 19, 2018

Ex-workers at Russian 'troll factory' trust US indictment
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - While Russian officials scoff at a U.S. indictment charging 13 Russians with meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, several people who worked at the same St. Petersb...
Feb 19, 2018
Pope backs down, OKs resignation of divisive Nigerian bishop
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis backed down Monday and accepted the resignation of Nigerian bishop who had been rejected for years by the priests of his diocese, setting a precedent that could have reperc...
Feb 19, 2018
'Three Billboards' wins, women make waves at UK film awards
LONDON - The ferocious female-led tragi-comedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” was the big winner at the British Academy Film Awards in London, where women demanding an end to ...
Feb 19, 2018

IS ambushes Iraqi Shiite-led force, killing 27 fighters
BAGHDAD - Islamic State militants ambushed a group of Iraq’s Shiite-led paramilitary fighters, killing at least 27 more than two months after Baghdad declared victory over the extremist group, o...
Feb 19, 2018

Turkey warns as Syrian government poised to enter Afrin
BEIRUT - Turkey warned the Syrian government Monday against entering the Kurdish-controlled enclave in northern Syria where a major Turkish military offensive is underway, saying it would hit back at ...
Feb 19, 2018

School shooting puts pressure on Florida lawmakers to act
PARKLAND, Fla. - The deadly shooting at a Florida high school has put pressure on the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun-control laws in a state that...
Feb 18, 2018

Trump offers support for limited effort on background checks
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - From the confines of his golf club, President Donald Trump offered support for a limited strengthening of federal background checks on gun purchases Monday while staying largel...
Feb 18, 2018
Austin Dillon takes No. 3 back to victory lane at Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The No. 3 is No. 1 again at Daytona, on a day, in a race and at a place forever linked with the great Dale Earnhardt. Austin Dillon won the Daytona 500 on Sunday night driving th...
Feb 18, 2018