Category Archives: World
India opens 1st Partition museum 70 years after bloody event
AMRITSAR, India - In the 70 years since India and Pakistan were created from the former British Empire, there has never been a venue focused on the stories and memorabilia of those who survived that c...
Aug 15, 2017
Mom called police over threatening acts by Virginia driver
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The driver charged with killing a woman at a white nationalist rally in Virginia was previously accused of beating his mother and threatening her with a knife, according to poli...
Aug 15, 2017
Police response scrutinized after violence at Virginia rally
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A Virginia police chief said he “absolutely” regrets violence that erupted over the weekend when dozens of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members cla...
Aug 15, 2017
White nationalists groups plan to be 'more active than ever'
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Emboldened and proclaiming victory after a bloody weekend in Virginia, white nationalists are planning more demonstrations to promote their agenda after the violence that left a wom...
Aug 15, 2017
US vet returns dead Japanese soldier's flag to emotional kin
HIGASHISHIRAKAWA, Japan - Tatsuya Yasue buried his face into the flag and smelled it. Then he held the 93-year-old hands that brought this treasure home, and kissed them. Marvin Strombo, who had taken...
Aug 15, 2017
Taliban 'open letter' to Trump urges US to leave Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD - The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday released an “open letter” to President Donald Trump, reiterating their calls for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan after 16 years of ...
Aug 15, 2017
Violence adds momentum to removal of Confederate statues
Cities and states accelerated their plans to remove Confederate monuments from public property Tuesday as the violence over a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, moved leaders across th...
Aug 15, 2017
Israel arrests radical Islamic cleric for inciting violence
JERUSALEM - Israeli police on Tuesday arrested a radical Islamic cleric on suspicion of inciting violence and involvement in an outlawed organization. Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Is...
Aug 15, 2017
UK says it may seek 'temporary' customs union with EU
LONDON - Britain on Tuesday gave its most detailed indication yet of how its future trade with the European Union might work after Brexit, laying out proposals to replace membership in the bloc’...
Aug 15, 2017
North Korea nuke conflict renews push to change Guam govn't
HAGATNA, Guam - The nuclear conflict with North Korea that has made Guam the target of a threatened attack has led to new calls to change the government of the Pacific island whose inhabitants are Ame...
Aug 15, 2017