Category Archives: World
50 years on, UK marks mine disaster that killed 128 children
LONDON - People across Britain fell silent Friday to mark 50 years since a mountain of coal sludge collapsed onto a village in Wales, killing more than 140 people in one of the country’s worst m...
Oct 21, 2016
Australia agrees to first national gun amnesty in 20 years
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia will allow gun owners to hand in illegal firearms without penalty next year as concerns grow over gun crimes involving such weapons, a federal minister said Friday. Aus...
Oct 21, 2016
Abu Sayyaf attacks S. Korean ship, abducts skipper, crewman
MANILA, Philippines - Suspected Abu Sayyaf militants have abducted a South Korean skipper and a Filipino crewman from a South Korean cargo ship in the latest such attacks that have sparked a security ...
Oct 21, 2016
California politician shows little remorse, gets prison time
LOS ANGELES - Former state Sen. Ron Calderon was sentenced Friday to 3 1/2 years in federal prison after showing little remorse for a corruption scandal that tarnished his family’s Southern Cali...
Oct 21, 2016
British reporter 'Fake Sheikh' jailed for 15 months
LONDON - A judge has sentenced a British journalist who often posed as a Middle Eastern tycoon in sting operations to 15 months in prison, after the tabloid reporter was convicted of perverting the co...
Oct 21, 2016
Jailed Ukrainian filmmaker 'staying' in Russia
MOSCOW - Ukraine says Russia is refusing to hand over jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit terror attacks by a Russian military court in 2015 and sentence...
Oct 21, 2016
Evacuations from Aleppo fail to materialize despite lull
BEIRUT - A cease-fire to allow wounded civilians and rebels to leave besieged parts of Aleppo has been extended into the weekend by Russia, but hoped-for medical evacuations didn’t materialize b...
Oct 21, 2016
A giant nude statue in California is stirring controversy
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. - There have long been complaints about the lack of women in the tech industry. Now there’s a towering female figure, in a tech park across the bay from San Francisco, althou...
Oct 21, 2016
$47 billion offer to create world's biggest tobacco company
LONDON - British American Tobacco has offered to buy out Reynolds American Inc. for $47 billion in an attempt to gain a strong presence in the U.S., a lucrative market where sales of electronic cigare...
Oct 21, 2016
Strong quake in western Japan knocks out power, injures 7
TOKYO - A powerful earthquake in western Japan knocked loose roof tiles, toppled store shelves and caused power outages Friday afternoon, but apparently caused no widespread damage. At least seven peo...
Oct 20, 2016