Category Archives: World
Authorities review video of small-town Texas church attack
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas - Authorities have reviewed video from inside the small-town Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen people, including footage that shows the assailant shootin...
Nov 08, 2017
FBI again finds itself unable to unlock a gunman's cellphone
WASHINGTON - The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman’s encrypted cellphone to learn what evidence it might h...
Nov 08, 2017
Silence on Pacific Rim ministers' talks ahead of APEC summit
DANANG, Vietnam - Foreign and trade ministers of 21 Pacific Rim economies meeting in Danang, Vietnam, appeared to be struggling for a consensus on open markets and other strategic issues ahead of a re...
Nov 08, 2017
Volunteers track dead birds as indicator of coast's health
OCEAN SHORES, Wash. - Barbara Patton scans the expansive beach on Washington’s outer coast looking for telltale signs of dead seabirds: a feather sticking straight up, dark colours in the sand, ...
Nov 08, 2017
Swiss prosecutors won't pursue Polanski rape case
GENEVA - Swiss prosecutors say they won’t pursue an investigation of Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski over allegations by a German woman that he raped her when she was a teenager 45 years a...
Nov 08, 2017
Man pleads guilty to gun charge in fatal shooting of child
NASHVILLE - A Tennessee man who possessed the gun authorities say a toddler used to fatally shoot a 7-year-old has pleaded guilty to a federal charge. U.S. Attorney Don Cochran says 27-year-old Anthon...
Nov 08, 2017
NJ politician who posted Confederate flag picture re-elected
FRANKLIN, N.J. - A New Jersey lawmaker who was heavily criticized for sharing a picture of himself standing by a Confederate flag has won re-election. Republican Assemblyman Parker Space and Hal Wirth...
Nov 08, 2017
Romance novel model pleads guilty to bank robbery
HARTFORD, Conn. - A romance novel cover model from California has pleaded guilty to robbing a bank and a convenience store in Connecticut. The Greenwich Time reports 35-year-old David Byers, of San Di...
Nov 08, 2017
British royals' visit to India clouded by leaked finances
NEW DELHI - Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have begun a two-day visit to the smog-choked Indian capital as leaked documents about his own financial deali...
Nov 08, 2017
US, Chinese companies sign contracts during Trump visit
BEIJING - U.S. and Chinese companies on Wednesday signed business deals the two sides valued at $9 billion during a visit by President Donald Trump in a tradition aimed at blunting criticism of Beijin...
Nov 08, 2017