Category Archives: World
HBO sets movie about 'Fantasy Island' star Herve Villechaize
LOS ANGELES - HBO says it’s green-lighted a movie about Herve Villechaize (ER-vay Vill-SHEZZ). He’s the late actor who played Mr. Tattoo on TV’s “Fantasy Island.” HBO sai...
May 09, 2017
'Blue Lives Matter' sign put up near site of police shooting
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Less than a week after a white former South Carolina police officer pleaded guilty to a civil rights charge in the 2015 death of an unarmed black man who ran from a traffic stop, a ...
May 09, 2017
Steve McQueen to direct authorized Tupac Shakur documentary
LOS ANGELES - Academy Award-winner Steve McQueen is set to direct a documentary about Tupac Shakur. Shakur Estate trustee Tom Whalley and Amaru Entertainment said Tuesday that the film is fully sancti...
May 09, 2017
UK leader says she's prepared to allow a vote on fox hunting
LONDON - Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday that she’s prepared to allow a vote in Parliament on whether to lift Britain’s ban on fox hunting - reigniting an issue that still raises p...
May 09, 2017
Niece of France's Le Pen held as rising star quits politics
PARIS - The niece of defeated far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen announced Tuesday that she’s leaving political life, at least temporarily, citing “personal and politica...
May 09, 2017
EU criticizes US for $640 million cut to UN agencies
Putting money into U.N. agencies, where the Trump administration has just cut U.S. funding by $640 million, is as important to global peace and security as defence spending - “and sometimes even...
May 09, 2017
Trump OKs arms for Syrian Kurds, despite Turkish objections
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will arm Syria’s Kurdish fighters “as necessary” to recapture the key Islamic State group stronghold of Raqqa, despite inte...
May 09, 2017
Energy state Republicans under pressure on methane rule
WASHINGTON - Republicans from energy-producing states are under pressure as the Senate weighs whether to overturn an Obama-era regulation to restrict harmful methane emissions escaping from oil and ga...
May 09, 2017
Chelsea Manning releases 1st statement since clemency win
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The soldier imprisoned for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks released her first statement Tuesday since being granted clemency, saying she ...
May 09, 2017
Sale of Trump Caribbean property revives ethics concerns
WASHINGTON - For sale: Luxury waterfront escape. Comes with two villas and five acres of paradise. And perhaps a bit of goodwill from the president of the United States? President Donald Trump’s...
May 09, 2017