Category Archives: World
Pakistani police detain 1,500 in crackdown on opposition
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani police launched a nation-wide crackdown overnight, arresting at least 1,500 supporters of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan ahead of an opposition rally planned later this w...
Oct 31, 2016
Consumer spending rebounded in September
WASHINGTON - Consumers boosted their spending in September at the fastest pace in three months, while their incomes grew by a modest amount. Consumer spending increased 0.5 per cent, a significant reb...
Oct 31, 2016
Pakistan's top court stays hanging of mentally ill prisoner
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of a mentally ill prisoner whose hanging was to take place later this week, a lawyer said. The case of 50-year-old Imdad Ali, ...
Oct 31, 2016
Upset at being sidelined in talks, Pakistan warns Taliban
ISLAMABAD - Two senior Taliban figures said that Pakistan issued a stark warning to the militant group, apparently surprised and angered over being excluded from the insurgents’ secret talks wit...
Oct 31, 2016
Nun recounts roar of earth during morning prayers
TREVI, Italy - Sister Caterina was praying with the eight nuns of her Benedictine order in the central Italian town of Norcia when the earth began to roar. The abbey and the ground beneath the nuns...
Oct 31, 2016
Police operation creates tension in Paris migrant camp
PARIS - French authorities finished clearing out the makeshift shelters in the squalid Calais migrant camp known as the “jungle” on Monday, after moving more than 6,000 people to temporary...
Oct 31, 2016
Kerry, UK foreign secretary host meeting on Libya stalemate
LONDON - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson hosted a London meeting Monday designed to help break Libya’s political stalemate and resolve its acute ca...
Oct 31, 2016
Egyptian officials: Militant attack kills soldier in Sinai
EL-ARISH, Egypt - Egyptian security officials say militants have attacked the same army checkpoint in Sinai where 12 soldiers were killed earlier this month, this time leaving one soldier dead. They s...
Oct 31, 2016
Georgia's governing party wins large majority in Parliament
TBILISI, Georgia - The governing party in Georgia has solidified its control of the ex-Soviet nation’s Parliament, winning enough seats to change the country’s Constitution, according to e...
Oct 31, 2016
New reports emerge of army attacks on Myanmar's Rohingya
YANGON, Myanmar - Just five months after her party took power, Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is facing international pressure over recent reports that soldiers ha...
Oct 31, 2016