Category Archives: World
WHY IT MATTERS: IRS
WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: The Internal Revenue Service touches everyone, not just taxpayers but anyone who receives a government check, drives on roads made possible by tax revenue or sends a child to a...
Oct 19, 2016
Gutter politics: DNC sorry after campaign bus dumps sewage
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - The Democratic National Committee has apologized after one of its campaign buses was spotted dumping raw sewage along a road outside Atlanta. News outlets report a Lawrenceville a...
Oct 19, 2016
Saudi Arabia executes prince in a rare royal death sentence
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia says it has executed a prince who fatally shot another man in a melee, a rare death sentence carried out against a member of the kingdom’s extensive royal fam...
Oct 19, 2016
Iraqi special forces join battle for Mosul, US soldier dies
BARTELLA, Iraq - In a significant escalation of the battle for Mosul, elite Iraqi special forces joined the fight Thursday, unleashing a pre-dawn assault on an Islamic State-held town east of the besi...
Oct 19, 2016
48 bodies recovered after ferry capsizing on Myanmar river
YANGON, Myanmar - Rescue teams found 48 bodies through Wednesday and were searching for other victims from a crowded ferry boat that capsized during a nighttime run on a river in central Myanmar last ...
Oct 19, 2016
Bangladesh says attack investigation yielding results
NEW DELHI - In the three months since a band of youths tortured and killed 20 hostages in a Dhaka restaurant, Bangladeshi intelligence officials say they’re rooting out radicals and restoring se...
Oct 19, 2016
Migrants in Spain end overnight rooftop protest in capital
MADRID - Nearly 40 migrants have ended an overnight protest on the rooftop of a detention centre in Spain’s capital. The migrants, most reported to be from Algeria, shouted for “Freedom...
Oct 19, 2016
European Mars lander's fate unclear, signs 'not good'
DARMSTADT, Germany - The European Space Agency lost contact with an experimental Mars probe shortly before its planned landing on the red planet Wednesday. Scientists said that wasn’t a good sig...
Oct 19, 2016
Starbucks plans to double stores in China in 5 years
NEW YORK - Starbucks is pushing ahead with its expansion into China and said Wednesday that it is on track to having 5,000 stores there by 2021, more than doubling the number of coffee shops it curren...
Oct 19, 2016
EU police agency: 314 arrested in organized crime raids
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Police and other law enforcement organizations around the world co-operated in a massive weeklong operation targeting organized crime that led to 314 arrests, the seizure or 2...
Oct 19, 2016