Category Archives: World
For Congress, defence contracts are like baseball, apple pie
WASHINGTON - For members of Congress, there’s nothing more American than baseball, apple pie and big defence contracts. After President-elect Donald Trump attacked the cost of the F-35 Joint Str...
Dec 13, 2016
Rebels to evacuate Aleppo in surrender deal as fighting ends
BEIRUT - Syrian rebels reached a cease-fire deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in an effective surrender on Tuesday, as Russia declared all military action had stopped and the Syrian government had ...
Dec 13, 2016
India arrests 12 for not standing during national anthem
NEW DELHI - Twelve people have been arrested in southern India for not standing while the national anthem was being played at an international film festival, police said Tuesday. The arrests Monday fo...
Dec 13, 2016
Indonesia mob kills man arrested for school stabbing spree
JAKARTA, Indonesia - An enraged mob in central Indonesia forced its way into a police station and beat a man to death Tuesday, hours after he was arrested for allegedly stabbing seven children at an e...
Dec 12, 2016
Pakistan's national carrier chief resigns after plane crash
ISLAMABAD - A spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines says the national carrier’s chief has resigned following last week’s plane crash that killed all 47 people onboard. Danyal Gilan...
Dec 12, 2016
Prosecutors ask judge to allow Cosby's accusers to testify
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby used his fame to gain the trust of women before knocking them out with pills and drinks so he could sexually assault them, prosecutors argued Tuesday as they sought to per...
Dec 12, 2016
The Cosby 13: Meet the women being asked to testify at trial
PHILADELPHIA - Did Bill Cosby drug and molest young women as part of a signature string of assaults spanning five decades? Prosecutors preparing for his sexual assault trial hope to call 13 of about 6...
Dec 12, 2016
CPJ: More journalists jailed than in nearly 3 decades
NEW YORK - More journalists have been jailed this year by governments around the world than at any time in nearly three decades, primarily because of the crackdown in Turkey after a failed coup in Jul...
Dec 12, 2016
Prosecutors push ahead with trial for last Oregon occupiers
PORTLAND, Ore. - The U.S. government will push forward with conspiracy charges against the remaining seven people who helped take over a national wildlife refuge in Oregon, just weeks after the stunni...
Dec 12, 2016
Police: 2 Georgia officers shot during traffic stop
LAVONIA, Ga. - Police say two northeast Georgia officers have been shot while trying to arrest a suspect in a stolen car. Multiple media outlets report that Lavonia police Chief Bruce Carlisle says th...
Dec 12, 2016