Category Archives: World
As Trump announces famine aid, relief funds face big cuts
WASHINGTON - When President Donald Trump met Pope Francis this week, the U.S. leader renewed a commitment to fighting global famine and proudly announced a new multimillion-dollar American aid contrib...
May 26, 2017
Alabama officials raced clock to execute convicted murderer
ATMORE, Ala. - Alabama’s quest to kill an inmate who spent decades on death row for murder became a high-stakes game of beat the clock after the U.S. Supreme Court finally cleared the way for hi...
May 26, 2017
Rights group says Chechen officials humiliated gay detainees
MOSCOW - High-level officials in Russia’s Chechnya humiliated inmates during visits to detention facilities where gay people were allegedly held and tortured, Human Rights Watch said in a new re...
May 26, 2017
British lab to help Poland probe 2010 president's death
WARSAW, Poland - Polish prosecutors who are investigating the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others have sent samples from the plane for laboratory tests in Britain to he...
May 26, 2017
Israel: Netanyahu's bladder stone successfully removed
JERUSALEM - The office of the Israeli prime minister says a medical procedure to remove Benjamin Netanyahu’s bladder stone has been successful. It says Netanyahu returned to “full activity...
May 26, 2017
Turkish committee: US-based cleric was behind failed coup
ANKARA, Turkey - The head of a Turkish parliamentary investigative committee said Friday there was no question that U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen was behind last year’s failed militar...
May 26, 2017
German kindergartens to name parents who skip vaccine advice
BERLIN - The German government wants kindergartens to inform authorities if parents fail to prove they have attended a doctors’ consultation on child vaccinations. The measure is part of a gover...
May 26, 2017
Lady Justice statue removed from Bangladesh court complex
NEW DELHI - A statue of Lady Justice was removed from Bangladesh’s Supreme Court premises under tight security after Islamist hard-liners pressed for its removal, the sculptor said Friday. The s...
May 26, 2017
UN envoy calls off Cyprus talks, no deal on peace summit
NICOSIA, Cyprus - A United Nations envoy called off talks with the rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus on Friday after failing to find “common ground” on convening a final summit to...
May 26, 2017
At least 28 killed in ambush attack on Christians in Egypt
CAIRO - Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery south of Cairo on Friday, killing at least 28 people, and Egypt responded by launching airstrikes against what it said we...
May 26, 2017