Category Archives: World
Rohingya woman in Bangladesh helps others flee Myanmar
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh - Zahida Begum doesn’t remember her home village, a tiny speck amid the mountains and forests of Myanmar. She was only 18 months old when her mother smuggled her across th...
Nov 16, 2017
Famed London theatre receives 20 allegations against Spacey
London’s Old Vic Theatre said Thursday it has received 20 allegations of inappropriate behaviour by its former artistic director Kevin Spacey, and acknowledged that a “cult of personality&...
Nov 16, 2017
Miss Golden Globe honour renamed Golden Globe Ambassador
LOS ANGELES - The group behind the Golden Globe awards says its Miss Golden Globe honoree will now be known as the Golden Globe Ambassador. Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Meher Tatna sa...
Nov 16, 2017
Cambodia's top court orders opposition party dissolved
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s Supreme Court ordered the main opposition party to be dissolved on Thursday, dealing a crushing blow to democratic aspirations in the increasingly oppressive So...
Nov 16, 2017
Police arrest man who held hostages in Madrid bank hold-up
MADRID - Spanish police said Thursday they arrested a man who took several people hostage while trying to rob a bank in Madrid. A National Police spokesman said the man gave himself up after police ta...
Nov 16, 2017
Newly discovered Chandler story chastises medical industry
NEW YORK - A newly discovered Raymond Chandler story has everything from an indictment of the medical industry to some mysterious scribble. “It’s All Right: He Only Died,” the title ...
Nov 15, 2017
Karl-Anthony Towns: Time for NBA to allow medical marijuana
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns believes the NBA should permit the use of medicinal marijuana. In an interview with ESPN published Wednesday, the 22-year-old Towns said he...
Nov 15, 2017
BC-BKN--Spurs-Timberwolves,LongBox
FG FT Reb SAN ANTONIO Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Aldridge 27:48 5-14 5-5 5-10 3 4 15 Anderson 25:30 4-7 0-0 1-5 0 2 8 Gasol 28:18 5-9 3-3 1-8 4 1 13 Green 30:48 4-8 0-0 0-2 2 3 11 Mills 28:14 4-10 3-3 0...
Nov 15, 2017
Court ruling expected to dissolve main Cambodian opposition
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s embattled opposition braced for a court ruling due Thursday that is widely expected to see the party dissolved in the latest move by authoritarian Prime Ministe...
Nov 15, 2017
What did they say? Roy Moore camp finally speaks
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - With barely an hour’s notice, the Roy Moore campaign announced it would hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon. There was intense speculation about what the embattled Repu...
Nov 15, 2017