Category Archives: World
Detroit Packard car plant still in ruins 3 years after sale
DETROIT - Peruvian developer Fernando Palazuelo saw the hulking and crumbling Packard car plant on Detroit’s east side and vowed to turn the industrial ruin that’s a symbol of the cityR...
May 7, 2017
Jurors will be asked if Tulsa cop went too far with shooting
TULSA, Okla. - Jurors hearing the manslaughter case against a white Oklahoma police officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man last year will be asked to decide whether she used appropri...
May 7, 2017
N. Korea detains another American over alleged hostile acts
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea has detained another American citizen accused of committing unspecified hostile acts against the country. The country’s official Korean Central News Agenc...
May 7, 2017
Philippines says bomb sparked by feud but IS claims attack
MANILA, Philippines - A bomb explosion that killed two people in a Muslim community in Manila was sparked by a personal feud, Philippine police officials said Sunday, but the Islamic State group claim...
May 7, 2017
India's anti-corruption crusader faces bribery allegation
NEW DELHI - Anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal’s government in the Indian capital plunged into a crisis on Sunday as a minister he fired over the weekend accused him of accepting 20 millio...
May 7, 2017
Famine could spread to 3rd South Sudan county: New report
NAIROBI, Kenya - Famine is at risk of spreading to a third county in South Sudan in the absence of food aid, a new report from a U.S.-backed monitoring group says, with the United Nations warning on S...
May 7, 2017
Jared Kushner's sister woos China's 'golden visa' investors
BEIJING - The sister of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been in China courting individual investors with a much-criticized federal visa program that provides a path toward ...
May 7, 2017
Royal relationship: Meghan Markle at Prince Harry polo match
LONDON - American actress Meghan Markle has attended a celebrity polo match near London where Prince Harry was playing, increasing British press speculation about their relationship. Photographs from ...
May 7, 2017
Miners at disaster site besiege Iranian president's car
TEHRAN, Iran - Angry coal miners besieged a car carrying Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday after he visited the site of a deadly mine explosion, a rare protest targeting the nation’s to...
May 7, 2017
IS kills 2 in attack on Iraqi Kurdish base
KIRKUK, Iraq - Islamic State militants attacked a base near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, killing two soldiers before U.S.-led forces launched a wave of airstrikes to repel the assault,...
May 7, 2017