Category Archives: World

Floods' pain still felt 1 year later in rural South Carolina
KINGSTREE, S.C. - A world away from South Carolina’s booming coastal resorts, hundreds of homes remain unrepaired in the county hardest hit by last year’s floods. Now they’re getting...
Oct 01, 2016

Angry Brazilian voters looking to upend political order
SAO PAULO - In Brazil’s biggest city of Sao Paulo, the leading mayoral candidate is a businessman who once fired people on air during a television reality show. In the country’s crown jewe...
Oct 01, 2016
New Jersey coast to get disputed, long-delayed sand dunes
TOMS RIVER, N.J. - Almost four years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled his neighbourhood so badly that Britain’s Prince Harry had to stop by for a look at the damage, Paul Jeffrey is ready to slee...
Oct 01, 2016
March planned in memory of man shot by police in California
EL CAJON, Calif. - Alfred Olango, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in a suburb of San Diego, will be remembered in a demonstration Saturday organized by clergy members and supporters of...
Oct 01, 2016
Tall fish tale: Tourists fooled by octopus ferry disaster
NEW YORK - Ever hear about the gargantuan octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 years ago? A cast bronze monument dedicated to the victims of ...
Oct 01, 2016

Man charged with wearing clear plastic wrap bikini on beach
BEACH HAVEN, N.J. - Police say a 59-year-old man who wore a bikini fashioned out of see-through plastic wrap on a New Jersey beach is facing a criminal charge. They say Stephen Wojciehowski spent two ...
Oct 01, 2016

Pope Francis praises religious tolerance in Azerbaijan
BAKU, Azerbaijan - Pope Francis praised Azerbaijan on Sunday as a model for a world divided by violent extremism, sidestepping criticism of the government for the sake of encouraging religious toleran...
Oct 01, 2016
Local Muslims wary of Hungary's anti-migrant referendum
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Muslims in Hungary say they are wary of the government’s anti-migrant referendum this weekend, which polls suggest has boosted xenophobic feelings. The government, contending...
Oct 01, 2016

Pakistan stops showing Indian movies over Kashmir tensions
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani cinemas have stopped showing Indian films after India banned Pakistani actors from its movie industry amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals over Kashmir, cin...
Oct 01, 2016
California opens pathway for cars that lack steering wheel
California regulators have changed course and opened a pathway for the public to get self-driving cars of the future that lack a steering wheel or pedals. It’s not going to happen immediately - ...
Oct 01, 2016