Category Archives: World
Michelle Obama tells Oprah that 2016 election 'was painful'
WASHINGTON - First lady Michelle Obama tells Oprah Winfrey that this past election was “painful,” but says she and her husband will support President-elect Donald Trump’s ongoing tra...
Dec 20, 2016
Child victim of Egypt church attack dies; death toll now 27
CAIRO - Egypt’s state news agency says a 10-year-old girl who was critically wounded in the suicide bombing at a Cairo church earlier this month, has died of her wounds. The fatality raises the ...
Dec 20, 2016
Mayor: $13.3M settlements end hard part of New Orleans' past
New Orleans’ mayor said a dark chapter in the city’s history has closed with settlements totalling $13.3 million for relatives of four men killed by police around the time of Hurricane Kat...
Dec 20, 2016
At least 26 killed in Congo protests, rights group says
KINSHASA, Congo - Security forces in Congo killed at least 26 demonstrators Tuesday and arrested scores more amid protests against President Joseph Kabila’s hold on power, a rights group said. T...
Dec 20, 2016
911 call in road-rage case: 'This little kid's been shot'
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Newly released 911 recordings depict a frantic, chaotic scene as a grandmother pulls into a Little Rock shopping centre and discovers her 3-year-old grandson has been shot in what ...
Dec 20, 2016
4 Jordanian police killed in clash with gunmen during raid
AMMAN, Jordan - Four policemen were killed Tuesday in an exchange of fire with wanted men in a central Jordanian province where assailants had killed 10 people in a series of ambushes earlier this wee...
Dec 20, 2016
Germany had monitored Berlin truck attack suspect for months
BERLIN - German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin - and even kept him under covert sur...
Dec 20, 2016
Iraq removes some of Baghdad's checkpoints to ease traffic
BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities have started removing some of the security checkpoints in Baghdad in a bid to ease traffic in the country’s capital with a population of about 6 million people, a sen...
Dec 20, 2016
Smog chokes Chinese cities, grounding flights, closing roads
BEIJING - Thick, grey smog fell over Beijing on Tuesday, choking China’s capital in a haze that spurred authorities to cancel flights and close some highways in emergency measures to cut down on...
Dec 20, 2016
Sri Lankans rush to build towering Christmas tree on time
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The goal has been to erect the world’s tallest artificial Christmas tree, but Sri Lankan organizers now say they’ll be lucky to get the tree up in time for the holiday...
Dec 20, 2016