Category Archives: World
Navy orders 7th Fleet review amid search for 10 from McCain
SINGAPORE - The U.S. Navy ordered a broad investigation into the performance and readiness of the Pacific-based 7th Fleet after the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker collided in Southeast Asia, lea...
Aug 20, 2017
Police: Fugitive's death 'breaks' cell behind Spain attacks
SUBIRATS, Spain - The lone fugitive from the Spanish cell that killed 15 people in and near Barcelona was shot to death Monday after he flashed what turned out to be a fake suicide belt at two trooper...
Aug 20, 2017
Jerry Lewis, comedy icon and telethon host dies, at 91
LOS ANGELES - Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found ...
Aug 20, 2017
Attack victims came from around world to celebrate Barcelona
BARCELONA, Spain - The victims of last week’s attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort town came from around the world and across generations, the latest a Spaniard who was stabbed to death by o...
Aug 20, 2017
'A primal experience': Americans dazzled by solar eclipse
The stars came out in the middle of the day, zoo animals ran in agitated circles, crickets chirped, birds fell silent and a chilly darkness settled upon the land Monday as the U.S. witnessed its first...
Aug 20, 2017
Hospital officals: Nearly 500 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Churches across Sierra Leone held special services Sunday in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week, as hospital officials announced the toll had r...
Aug 20, 2017
Kasich urges Trump to end staff chaos and 'settle it down'
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop the staff chaos at the White House and “settle it down.” Strategist Steve Bannon last we...
Aug 20, 2017
Incentives offered for new agents at remote border crossings
NORTON, Vt. - It can be slow at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing between Norton, Vermont, and Stanhope, Quebec, where agents have watched moose amble through while waiting for people and cargo. But t...
Aug 20, 2017
Trump will address path forward on Afghanistan
CAMP MOREHEAD, Afghanistan - Signalling that the U.S. military expects its mission to continue, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the launch of the Afghan Army’s new special...
Aug 20, 2017
Grace Mugabe gets diplomatic immunity, returns to Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Granted diplomatic immunity by South Africa, the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home from Johannesburg on Sunday despite calls that she be prosecuted for allege...
Aug 20, 2017