Category Archives: World
Report: Russian cybergang scored millions in fake-ad scam
NEW YORK - A Russian criminal group is running a massive fraud that has been siphoning off millions of digital advertising dollars a day for a couple of months, a firm that specializes in detecting on...
Dec 20, 2016
Powerful response to AP's photo of assassination in Turkey
NEW YORK - The stunning image rocketed around the world, via Facebook and Twitter and other social media: an Associated Press photographer’s close-up of an agitated gunman just moments after he ...
Dec 20, 2016
Obama bans future oil leases in much of Arctic, Atlantic
HONOLULU - President Barack Obama on Tuesday designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasi...
Dec 20, 2016
Volkswagen deal gives some diesel car owners buyback option
SAN FRANCISCO - Volkswagen reached a deal that will give at least some owners of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught in the company’s emissions cheating scandal the option of a buyback a...
Dec 20, 2016
San Francisco names LAPD veteran as new police chief
San Francisco named a new police chief, an African-American police veteran who officials and community activists hope can reform a troubled department marred by fatal police shootings of minorities. T...
Dec 20, 2016
The Latest: Search warrant unsealed in Clinton email probe
NEW YORK - The Latest on the unsealing of a search warrant for Hillary Clinton’s emails (all times local): 1:30 p.m. A federal court in New York has released redacted copies of the search warran...
Dec 20, 2016
EU watchdog probes Facebook over WhatsApp merger
BRUSSELS - The European Commission is investigating whether Facebook gave misleading information about its takeover of mobile messaging service WhatsApp. The EU’s executive body on Tuesday gave ...
Dec 20, 2016
UK's first openly gay rabbi Lionel Blue dies at 86
LONDON - Lionel Blue, Britain’s first openly gay rabbi who was known for his popular early morning radio spots, has died at 86. The Liberal Judaism group said he died Monday. He was hospitalized...
Dec 20, 2016
First Berlin victim a Pole who fought for his life
WARSAW, Poland - He was the first victim in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market - a 37-year-old Polish truck driver who was seemingly stabbed and shot to death in the cabin of his truck. One of hi...
Dec 20, 2016
Queen Elizabeth II to step down from some organizations
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II will step down from her role as patron of more than 20 charities and organizations at the end of the year. Buckingham Palace said Tuesday she will follow her husband Prince...
Dec 20, 2016