Category Archives: World
Cambodian opposition leader temporarily leaves refuge
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s acting opposition leader briefly left the party headquarters where he took refuge from arrest four months ago and was able to register to vote in next year̵...
Oct 05, 2016
World's oldest man celebrates bar mitzvah, 100 years late
JERUSALEM - The world’s oldest man has finally celebrated his bar mitzvah - a hundred years later than usual. Israel Kristal, 113, has lived through both World Wars and survived the Auschwitz co...
Oct 05, 2016
Israel strikes Gaza after rocket fire on Israeli city
JERUSALEM - Israel carried out airstrikes on Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory landed in a street in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Wednesday, t...
Oct 05, 2016
Doctors: Brain injury could've factored into police shooting
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Less than a year after a devastating motorcycle wreck that friends say left him muddled and struggling, Keith Lamont Scott was shot to death by Charlotte police officers who said he ...
Oct 05, 2016

Activists blast LAPD video showing part of confrontation
LOS ANGELES - When the Los Angeles Police Department released video capturing part of a deadly confrontation between police and a black man, the criticism was immediate. Although activists had been ca...
Oct 05, 2016
Japan police probe poisoning deaths at hospital for elderly
TOKYO - Authorities in Japan are investigating the poisoning deaths of two elderly patients at a Yokohama hospital specializing in terminal-stage care. Oguchi Hospital has had a higher death rate in r...
Oct 05, 2016

First fame then arrest for Saudi teen who chatted up US girl
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - When a teenager in Saudi Arabia began chatting up an American woman online, he first found fame and then notoriety before he was arrested over concerns that his clumsy cy...
Oct 05, 2016
Nigeria leader selling 2 presidential jets as economy sinks
LAGOS, Nigeria - A spokesman says Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is selling two jets in line with a campaign promise to reduce unnecessary luxuries, including the 11-aircraft presidential ...
Oct 05, 2016
Superheroes honour school shooting victim dressed as Batman
TOWNVILLE, S.C. - Six-year-old Jacob Hall was dressed as Batman for his funeral on Wednesday, and many of more than 1,000 mourners appeared as superheroes to honour the school shooting victim. The fir...
Oct 05, 2016

US trade deficit in August rises 3 per cent to $40.7 billion
WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit rose in August as a flood of imports offset the best showing for exports in 13 months. The politically sensitive deficit with China rose to the highest level in 11 ...
Oct 05, 2016