Category Archives: World
Giant air tanker used to attack growing Georgia wildfire
Firefighters called up a giant air tanker to attack a rapidly growing wildfire that threatened homes Tuesday on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp near the Georgia-Florida state line. The modified DC-10...
May 09, 2017
Iranian state TV: Death toll in mine explosion rises to 42
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian search crews have found seven more bodies at the site of last week’s coal mine explosion in northern Golestan province, raising the number of confirmed fatalities in the i...
May 09, 2017
French ex-PM Valls wants to join Macron's movement
PARIS - Manuel Valls, the former French prime minister, said Tuesday he wants to turn his back on the Socialists and run under President-elect Emmanuel Macron’s new political movement. It’...
May 09, 2017
Sam the missing python slithers back to Alaska home
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A 17-foot python that had caused concern in a community north of Anchorage, Alaska, since it went missing two weeks ago has returned home. Matanuska-Susitna Borough Animal Care rep...
May 09, 2017
AP Exclusive: US digs for evidence of Haiti immigrant crimes
WASHINGTON - As the Trump administration weighs extending humanitarian protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants, officials are digging for unusual information: How many have been convicted of c...
May 09, 2017
4 UN peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic
A Christian rebel group in the Central African Republic ambushed a U.N. convoy, sparking a firefight and kidnappings that left four peacekeepers dead, eight injured and one missing, the United Nations...
May 09, 2017
Trump delaying decision on Paris climate deal
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is delaying a decision on whether to withdraw from a landmark climate deal until after an international summit later this month. That means the president will head ...
May 09, 2017
Los Angeles company recalls deer-antler tea after 2 get sick
LOS ANGELES - The California Department of Public Health says a Los Angeles company is recalling tea made from deer antler after two people who drank it got sick. State health officials said Monday th...
May 08, 2017
Back on TV, Kimmel zings critics of his health care plea
LOS ANGELES - Jimmy Kimmel zinged his critics as he returned to late-night TV and resumed arguing that Americans deserve the level of health care given his infant son. Back on ABC’s “Jimmy...
May 08, 2017
Kushner emerged as conduit for Canada on NAFTA talks
WASHINGTON - On the day the White House threatened to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, emerged as a k...
May 08, 2017