Category Archives: World
Church officials oppose show by singer facing drug charges
HAGATNA, Guam - The leadership at Guam’s Roman Catholic Church is protesting plans by one of its schools to proceed with a concert by singer Yvonne Elliman-Alexander after she was arrested in th...
Aug 18, 2017
Memorials grow along site of deadly attack in Barcelona
BARCELONA, Spain - An ever-expanding jumble of flags, candles, teddy bears and flowers grew Friday at the base of Barcelona’s ornate Canaletes Fountain, where a local legend says that those who ...
Aug 18, 2017
Big catch! Drunken woman allegedly bites fisherman's line
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - It wasn’t exactly the catch a Florida man was hoping for while fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, deputies say a drunken 22-year-old woman cursed at him before swimmin...
Aug 18, 2017
Barcelona's victims include US man celebrating anniversary
PARIS - The dead and injured in Barcelona were a snapshot of the world - men, women and children from nearly three dozen nations - testifying to the huge global appeal of the sun-kissed city. Families...
Aug 18, 2017
Charlottesville mayor calls for swift removal of Lee statue
RICHMOND, Va. - The mayor of Charlottesville on Friday called for an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to confirm the city’s right to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a requ...
Aug 18, 2017
NASA, PBS marking 40 years since Voyager spacecraft launches
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors - the twin Voyager spacecraft - are carrying sounds and music of our planet ever deeper into the cosmos. T...
Aug 18, 2017
Bombardier says Russian worker charged with bribery doesn't reflect its values
MONTREAL - Bombardier says the filing of formal criminal charges in Sweden on Friday against a railway employee doesn’t reflect its values. “We take these allegations very seriously as the...
Aug 18, 2017
Vietnam battles dengue outbreaks with 42 per cent more cases
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has been battling raging dengue fever outbreaks with more than 10,000 new infections reported over the past week stretching its medical system. The number of admitted patients...
Aug 18, 2017
Danes charge imam for comparing gays to pedophiles.
COPENHAGEN - Danish prosecutors have charged a 49-year-old imam for making public remarks against homosexuals, whom he compared to pedophiles. Prosecutor Jan Reckendorff says the unidentified imam vio...
Aug 18, 2017
Charlottesville exposes new threat for college campuses
BOSTON - On college campuses, white supremacists and other far-right extremist groups see fertile ground to spread their messages and recruit followers. But for many colleges, last weekend’s dea...
Aug 18, 2017