Category Archives: World

Greek court agrees to extradite members of Turkish military
ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court agreed Tuesday to extradite three Turkish servicemen who were part of an eight-person helicopter crew that fled to Greece after a failed military coup, a decision that c...
Dec 06, 2016
EU's Brexit negotiator puts time pressure on Britain
BRUSSELS - Britain may not have two years to negotiate its divorce from the European Union after all. The EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit warned Tuesday that the country will have less than 18 m...
Dec 06, 2016

Israel artist displays golden statue of Netanyahu in protest
TEL AVIV, Israel - Tel Aviv residents woke up Tuesday to an unusual site - a golden statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed prominently in front of City Hall in an act of protest. Itay Z...
Dec 06, 2016

Poland's top court upholds refusal to extradite Polanski
WARSAW, Poland - Poland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that the country would refuse to detain and extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the U.S. The ruling upholds the decision of a lower...
Dec 06, 2016
Saudi court sentences 15 to death in Iran spy cell trial
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A court in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sentenced 15 people to death and several others to prison terms in a case involving an alleged Iranian spy cell, a sign of the continuing tens...
Dec 06, 2016

Poet, nail art lover among warehouse fire victims
OAKLAND, Calif. - There was a mortuary worker who dreamed of being a painter or photographer. A poet who texted her father Kurt Vonnegut lines. A music manager known for her love for nail art. They we...
Dec 06, 2016

Cazeneuve is France's new prime minister as Valls steps down
PARIS - The man who served as France’s top cop during a series of bloody terror attacks became the nation’s new prime minister on Tuesday after Manuel Valls stepped down to focus on runnin...
Dec 06, 2016
Thousands mourn beloved leader Jayalalithaa in south India
CHENNAI, India - Hundreds of thousands of people thronged the southern Indian city of Chennai on Tuesday to honour their late beloved leader, Jayaram Jayalalithaa, a former film actress and popular po...
Dec 05, 2016

Trooper responding to call of erratic driver killed by him
MILLVILLE, N.J. - A recently married rookie state trooper responding to an emergency call about an erratic driver was killed in a violent wreck on a highway when the erratic driver, travelling in the ...
Dec 05, 2016
Rio2016, Election2016, PokemonGo top global Twitter trends
The Rio Olympics, the American presidential election and Pokemon Go were the top global trends on Twitter in 2016. The social media site says Rio2016 was the most tweeted-about topic around the world,...
Dec 05, 2016