Category Archives: World
Texas officers find dozens of people held captive in homes
IRVING, Texas - Dozens of people were found being held against their will in what their captives told authorities were drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, police ...
Oct 06, 2016
UN agency agrees to establish world's first aviation climate deal
MONTREAL - The world’s first climate deal aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions from international air travel was overwhelmingly approved Thursday by a United Nations aviation agency...
Oct 06, 2016
Inspirational weekend? Authors hunker down ahead of Matthew
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. - Genre fiction readers: Your next potboiler will likely involve a hurricane. That’s because dozens of indie authors - writers who eschew the traditional publishing world...
Oct 06, 2016
Airlines cancel hundreds of flights as hurricane hits US
Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights for Thursday and again Friday as Hurricane Matthew pelted the Florida coast with high winds and heavy rain. The Fort Lauderdale airport shut down on Thursday mor...
Oct 06, 2016
US wants to strengthen agreement to ban Arctic Ocean fishing
PORTLAND, Maine - The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean. Such an agreement would ...
Oct 06, 2016
Flooding threatens US coasts well ahead of Hurricane Matthew
MIAMI - The major threat to the Southeast U.S. won’t be Hurricane Matthew’s pummeling winds, which newer buildings have been constructed to withstand. It will be water - the deadly storm s...
Oct 06, 2016
Jurors begins to deliberate in case against police officers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jurors began deliberating Thursday in a murder case against two former New Mexico police officers who prosecutors said killed a mentally ill homeless man as he tried to surrender a...
Oct 06, 2016
HBO can't film Somali-American drama at Minnesota high rise
MINNEAPOLIS - Residents have barred HBO from filming at a Minneapolis high-rise apartment building for what the company describes as a Somali-American family drama series. Minneapolis Public Housing A...
Oct 06, 2016
Likely new UN secretary-general sees 'huge challenges' ahead
LISBON, Portugal - The United Nations’ probable next secretary-general said Thursday he faces “huge challenges” and hopes to see unity and consensus during his expected term at the i...
Oct 06, 2016
Lawyers: Lost evidence, misconduct make defending Cosby hard
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby’s lawyers blame his arrest on sexual assault charges on “a perfect storm” of mistakes by a federal judge and misconduct by an ambitious prosecutor and celeb...
Oct 06, 2016