Category Archives: World
US stocks rise to fresh records in shortened session
NEW YORK - Stocks hit fresh records in a shortened trading session Friday as investors continued to bet on a pickup in economic growth and rising corporate profits. The gains were modest but broad, wi...
Nov 25, 2016
Correction: Austria-Wrong Seefeld story
VIENNA - In a story Nov. 25 about the delivery of a trail groomer to an Austrian resort, The Associated Press, citing local officials, reported erroneously that the vehicle had initially been sent to ...
Nov 25, 2016
Judge: Roof competent to stand trial in church shooting
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The white man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church last year is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District J...
Nov 25, 2016
Man killed, brother wounded in shooting at mall parking lot
MAYS LANDING, N.J. - Two brothers were shot, one fatally, in the parking lot of a mall in southern New Jersey early Friday, authorities said. Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Diane Ruberton said the ...
Nov 25, 2016
Bulgaria PM: Migrants held in camp clashes will be deported
SOFIA, Bulgaria - About 400 migrants have been detained after clashes with police at a refugee camp in southern Bulgaria left several injured, and the country’s prime minister said Friday that s...
Nov 25, 2016
Police charge parents after 2-year-old shot accidentally
PHILADELPHIA - The parents of a toddler allegedly shot by his 4-year-old cousin are facing charges of child endangerment and related offences. Philadelphia police on Friday announced the arrests of Ra...
Nov 25, 2016
French prosecutor says 4 friends plotted imminent attack
PARIS - Four long-time friends in their 30s, living in the same French city and communicating through a closed phone line, were planning a terror attack in France as early as next week on orders from ...
Nov 25, 2016
EU gets tough: Bloc tells UK Brexit is lose-lose situation
LONDON - Since Britain voted to leave the European Union, U.K. officials have had one message: Brexit means Brexit. Now they have EU leaders’ reply: And it’s going to hurt. The prime minis...
Nov 25, 2016
Nude students, Filipino activists protest dictator's burial
MANILA, Philippines - Thousands of Filipinos, including more than a dozen nude students, protested against the hasty burial of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes’ cemetery, in a gr...
Nov 25, 2016
Florence Henderson, "The Brady Bunch" mom, dies
LOS ANGELES - Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America’s most beloved television moms in “The Brady Bunch,” has died, her manager and her publicist sa...
Nov 25, 2016