Category Archives: World

Unicycle thief sought in San Francisco; reward offered
SAN FRANCISCO - Someone at the San Francisco airport stole a 7-foot (2.13-meter) unicycle used by the Red Panda Acrobat for her plate-juggling routine and the legendary performer is offering a $2,000 ...
Feb 01, 2018
AP finds evidence for graves, Rohingya massacre in Myanmar
BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh - The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognized his friends only by the colou...
Feb 01, 2018
Only on AP: For NFL players, racial profiling often personal
A son who saw a police officer hold a gun to his father’s head. A husband whose wife was pulled over driving a Bentley. These unsettling scenes are among the stories from some of the NFL’s...
Feb 01, 2018
Topless beachgoers: Ban is unconstitutional, discriminatory
CONCORD, N.H. - A city law in New Hampshire that bans women from showing their nipples is unconstitutional and discriminatory, a lawyer for three women accused of violating it told the state’s h...
Feb 01, 2018
Castro freezes Cuban private sector, throws future in doubt
HAVANA - Two years after taking office, President Raul Castro widened the niche for private enterprise in Cuba’s state-dominated economy. Capitalism came pouring in. Slowly at first, then gainin...
Feb 01, 2018
Polish PM cites shared Nazi horrors to ease speech law anger
WARSAW, Poland - Poland’s prime minister sought to ease concerns Thursday over a law criminalizing some public comments about the Holocaust by invoking the horror both Poles and Jews experienced...
Feb 01, 2018
South Sudan rebels vow 'guerrilla war' if peace talks fail
AKOBO, South Sudan - South Sudan’s opposition is threatening to resort to “guerrilla warfare” if peace talks in Ethiopia fail in the coming days as government forces advance on remai...
Feb 01, 2018

Kenya's High Court orders government's TV shutdown to end
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya’s High Court on Thursday ordered the government to end its shutdown of the country’s top three TV stations after they tried to broadcast images of the opposition lea...
Feb 01, 2018
Gambia's president says recovery 'like carrying a mountain'
BANJUL, Gambia - Gambia’s new president says taking over a bankrupt nation was “like carrying a mountain” and that stabilizing the economy will take time after the former leader left...
Feb 01, 2018
Year after riot, Delaware prison still potentially explosive
DOVER, Del. - One year after a deadly inmate riot and hostage-taking, Delaware’s maximum-security prison remains a potentially explosive, understaffed facility managed by overworked guards overs...
Feb 01, 2018