Category Archives: World
Number of suspected dead climbs from shipwreck off Libya
ROME - Aid groups have revised to at least 170 the number of suspected dead from a weekend migrant shipwreck off Libya. The International Organization of Migration and U.N. refugee agency increased th...
Jan 17, 2017
Iraqi troops capture historic Mosul mosque destroyed by IS
MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi forces have captured the site of the Mosque of the Prophet Younis after driving Islamic State group militants from a new neighbourhood in eastern Mosul, a spokesman said on Tuesday...
Jan 17, 2017
Radical Islamic cleric freed after 9 months in Israel prison
JERUSALEM - Israel has released a radical Islamic cleric from prison after he completed his nine-month prison term. Raed Salah heads the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, a group that...
Jan 17, 2017
Markets cheer, EU wary as UK PM May signals 'clean Brexit'
LONDON - Britain’s future outside the European Union became much clearer Tuesday: It’s so long to the single market, goodbye to the European Court of Justice and farewell to the freedom of...
Jan 17, 2017
Gambia leader, pressured to go, declares state of emergency
DAKAR, Senegal - Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, just two days before he is supposed to cede power after losing elections last month. The longtime leade...
Jan 17, 2017
Spain arrests Moroccan suspected of praising terrorism
MADRID - Spain’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested a Moroccan suspected of praising terrorism by promoting armed Islamic groups on the internet. A ministry statement said the man arres...
Jan 17, 2017
Norway defends mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions
OSLO - Norway on Tuesday defended the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held. The state attorney presented its closing statement in an appeals trial against a...
Jan 17, 2017
NewsAlert: Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses outgoing US administration of trying to undermine Trump's legitimacy
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses outgoing US administration of trying to undermine Trump’s legitimacy. More coming. The Associated Press
Jan 17, 2017
Malaysia Air on rebound as missing flight search called off
HONG KONG - Nearly three years after twin disasters took it to the brink of financial collapse, Malaysia Airlines’ new CEO says the airline’s recovery is going better than expected. The se...
Jan 17, 2017
Going bananas? Israeli zoo scrambles to find missing monkey
JERUSALEM - Israel’s largest zoo is scrambling to find a monkey who swung out of a tree and escaped from the wildlife park near Tel Aviv. The “Safari,” located in the adjacent city o...
Jan 17, 2017