Category Archives: World
Plan to help save southern New England lobsters up for vote
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - A plan to try to stem the decline of the southern New England lobster population is coming up for a vote in front of an interstate regulatory board. The population of lobsters off...
May 08, 2017
Hassan, Shaheen say GOP health bill hurts drug fight
CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire’s Democratic U.S. senators are warning the health care overhaul passed by the U.S. House will weaken the fight against the opioid crisis. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and M...
May 08, 2017
Prime minister says IS fighter's son can return to Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - A 6-year-old Australian boy photographed making an Islamic State movement salute in front of a human body hanging from a cross somewhere in the Middle East was entitled to return...
May 08, 2017
Iran warns Saudi prince for bringing 'battle' to Iran remark
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s defence minister on Monday lashed back at Saudi Arabia, slamming the kingdom’s deputy crown prince over belligerent comments last week that underscored the deep rival...
May 08, 2017
Malaysia seizes African pangolin scales worth $2.1 million
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities said Monday they have seized pangolin scales worth 9.2 million ringgit ($2.1 million) and believed to have been smuggled from Africa. Deputy customs dire...
May 08, 2017
Yates: Alarm about Russian blackmail led to warning on Flynn
WASHINGTON - Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates told Congress Monday she bluntly warned the Trump White House in January that new National Security Adviser Michael Flynn “essentially cou...
May 08, 2017
Travel ban arguments focus on Trump's comments about Muslims
RICHMOND, Va. - A challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban appears to hinge on whether a federal appeals court agrees that the Republican’s past anti-Muslim statements can ...
May 08, 2017
Taiwan pushes for inclusion in global health summit
BEIJING - Taiwan is pushing for a last-minute invitation to an annual World Health Organization summit amid rising pressure from Beijing to isolate the island by blocking its participation in internat...
May 08, 2017
Nations critique Filipino leader's rights record at UN body
GENEVA - A Filipino senator briskly defended the human rights record of President Rodrigo Duterte’s government before a U.N. body on Monday, saying his government always “seeks to uphold t...
May 08, 2017
Indonesia to disband hard-line Islamic group Hizbut
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The top Indonesian security minister said Monday the country’s president has ordered the dissolution of a hard-line Islamic group that seeks a global caliphate for Muslim na...
May 08, 2017