Category Archives: World
Rome's city council votes down 2024 Olympic bid
ROME - As far as city leaders are concerned, Rome’s bid for the 2024 Olympics is finished. The city council voted in favour of scrapping the bid on Thursday, a week after Mayor Virginia Raggi re...
Sep 29, 2016

The Latest: Engineer in train crash released from hospital
HOBOKEN, N.J. - The Latest on the commuter train that crashed into a station in New Jersey (all times local): 5:45 p.m. The National Transportation Safety Board says the engineer in the fatal New Jers...
Sep 29, 2016

US pending home sales slump in August
WASHINGTON - Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in August, as a shortage of properties for sale is weighing on the market. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday its seasonally ...
Sep 29, 2016

CNN says Lewandowski no longer being paid by Trump campaign
NEW YORK - CNN said Thursday that its analyst Corey Lewandowski, the former Donald Trump campaign manager, has cut all financial ties to the campaign and is no longer receiving monthly severance payme...
Sep 29, 2016

NTSB has yet to interview injured engineer in deadly crash
HOBOKEN, N.J. - National Transportation Safety Board investigators held off questioning the engineer in the deadly Hoboken train crash because of his injuries Friday and struggled to lift clues from t...
Sep 29, 2016
Amnesty alleges Sudan army used chemical weapons in Darfur
CAIRO - Amnesty International accused the Sudanese military on Thursday of using chemical weapons against civilians, including very young children, in one of the most remote corners of the Darfur regi...
Sep 29, 2016

India says it has struck militants across Kashmir frontier
NEW DELHI - India said Thursday it carried out “surgical strikes” against militants across the highly militarized frontier that divides the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan, in an...
Sep 29, 2016
75,000 could starve to death in Nigeria after Boko Haram: UN
LAGOS, Nigeria - As many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram if donors don’t respond quickly, the U.N. Children’s Fund is warning...
Sep 29, 2016

UN warns of 'merciless abyss' in besieged eastern Aleppo
BEIRUT - Syrian government forces continued their push into rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Thursday as international officials issued dire warnings of an ongoing humanitarian disaster in Syria̵...
Sep 29, 2016
Family of slain black man wants police to release full video
EL CAJON, Calif. - Angry protests flared again Thursday night after a family attorney charged that an unarmed black man was unjustly killed by San Diego police, and that officials were trying to sway ...
Sep 29, 2016