Category Archives: World
NewsAlert: Powerful earthquake in western Japan, no danger of tsunami
TOKYO - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 shakes western Japan, but there is no danger of a tsunami being caused. The Meteorological Agency said the earthquake occurred Friday ...
Oct 20, 2016
Under fire in Mosul, IS attacks another Iraqi city
KIRKUK, Iraq - Islamic State militants launched a wave of pre-dawn attacks in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, killing at least 14 people and setting off fierce clashes with Kur...
Oct 20, 2016
Yoga pants parade to protest man's comments on women's wear
BARRINGTON, R.I. - Yoga pants-wearing women plan to parade through a coastal Rhode Island town, protesting a man who says the outfits look tacky and ridiculous. The Providence Journal reports (http://...
Oct 20, 2016
Goodyear christening 2nd airship in fleet replacing blimps
AKRON, Ohio - Goodyear is officially welcoming the second airship in the fleet replacing its famous blimps. The replacements look much like their predecessors but aren’t technically blimps becau...
Oct 20, 2016
Over 50,000 evacuated in typhoon's path in southern China
BEIJING - Typhoon Haima forced the evacuations of more than 50,000 people in southern China after hammering the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and p...
Oct 20, 2016
Arnold Newman photography exhibit opens at upstate NY museum
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - A new exhibit of the renowned portrait photographer Arnold Newman’s work has opened at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. “Arnold Newman: Luminaries of the Twentie...
Oct 20, 2016
Group wants charges against 3 documentary filmmakers dropped
NEW YORK - A media watchdog is calling on prosecutors in North Dakota and Washington state to drop charges against three documentary filmmakers arrested while filming protests against oil pipelines. T...
Oct 20, 2016
Philippine president announces separation from US
BEIJING - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that his country is separating from the U.S. in a speech before a Beijing economic forum on Thursday, after handing China a major diplomatic vi...
Oct 20, 2016
EU leaders lash Russia over Syria but split on sanctions
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders pledged early Friday to keep all options open to respond to any atrocities committed by President Bashar Assad’s regime and his Russian backers in Syria but sto...
Oct 20, 2016
For first lady, Trump is he who shall remain nameless
PHOENIX - First lady Michelle Obama has emerged as perhaps the most effective Donald Trump critic in the Democrats’ lineup, and she’s done it without ever uttering two key words: Donald Tr...
Oct 20, 2016