Category Archives: World

Natalee Holloway's mom sues over TV series about daughter
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The mother of Natalee Holloway, a U.S. teenager who vanished during her senior trip to Aruba in 2005, is seeking at least $35 million from the producers of what she contends was a f...
Feb 05, 2018
Dental students took selfie with severed heads
HARTFORD, Conn. - Graduate dental school students and a top University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Ya...
Feb 05, 2018

Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favoured district map
HARRISBURG, Pa. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let a court-ordered redrawing of congressional districts in Pennsylvania proceed, raising Democratic hopes that a revamped map might yield them sever...
Feb 05, 2018
Cities, states ban bump stocks after push stalls in Congress
In the immediate aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, there was a fevered pitch to ban bump stocks, the device that allowed the shooter’s semi-automatic rifles to mim...
Feb 05, 2018

US investigator of ivory, rhino horn trade killed in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya - Esmond Bradley Martin, a Kenya-based American conservationist whose dogged investigations of the elephant ivory and rhino horn trades over decades were seen as critical in efforts to ...
Feb 05, 2018

House Republicans working on averting another shutdown
WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders have come out with a plan to keep the government open for six more weeks while Washington grapples with a potential follow-up budget pact and, perhaps, immigratio...
Feb 05, 2018

Pence won't rule out NKorea meeting, will 'see what happens'
TOKYO - U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence said he has not ruled out the possibility of meeting with North Korean officials at the upcoming Olympics in South Korea. “Let me say President Trump has s...
Feb 05, 2018

Bipartisan immigration bill surfaces, Trump knocks it down
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan immigration proposal surfaced Monday in the Senate, only to be quickly knocked down by President Donald Trump via Twitter. Firing back, one senator pushing the narrowly focus...
Feb 05, 2018
IS attacks suspect Abdeslam defies court in first appearance
BRUSSELS - The man accused of being a would-be Islamic State attacker who was once Europe’s most wanted fugitive defied a Belgian court Monday, refusing to rise or answer questions during his fi...
Feb 05, 2018

Evangelical, ruling party candidate eye runoff in Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Two candidates with the same last name and opposing stances on gay marriage, an issue that came to dominate Costa Rica’s presidential campaign, led election returns and ap...
Feb 05, 2018