Category Archives: World
2 men charged in California killings
SANTA ANA, Calif. - An Army private and another young man were charged Tuesday with murder in the slayings of a California couple and family friend who were discovered after the couple’s 6-year-...
Sep 27, 2016
Police: Woman robs Arby's restaurant, flees in taxi cab
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A Florida woman faces armed robbery charges after police say she robbed an Arby’s restaurant in Gainesville and then hailed a cab to get away. A Gainesville police report say...
Sep 27, 2016
Turkey issues warrants for 121 people linked to Gulen
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for 121 people as part of an ongoing investigation into the July 15 failed coup. Turkey accuses U....
Sep 27, 2016
Colombia's road to peace marred by multiple obstacles
CARTAGENA, Colombia - The contrast couldn’t be more dramatic: As Colombia’s president and the head of its largest guerrilla movement were putting their signatures on a historic peace deal,...
Sep 27, 2016
Amnesty International critical of Hungary's asylum system
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Asylum seekers are being mistreated in Hungary and its asylum system is “blatantly designed” to deter refugees from seeking protection there, rights group Amnesty Inter...
Sep 27, 2016
EU presses ahead with military plans, UK opposes any EU army
BRUSSELS - European Union nations pressed ahead Tuesday with plans to boost military co-operation as Britain vowed to oppose the creation of an EU army or headquarters. With Britain leaving the EU, Fr...
Sep 27, 2016
US appeals court hears arguments in Clean Power Plan case
WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a coalition of states and businesses reliant on fossil fuels made their case Tuesday to a federal appeals court that President Barack Obama’s plan to curtail climate-war...
Sep 27, 2016
Sri Lanka exhumes body of slain editor for new investigation
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The body of a newspaper editor killed seven years ago was exhumed Tuesday for a fresh investigation as Sri Lanka’s government looks anew at multiple unsolved killings of jou...
Sep 27, 2016

Trial opens in Pakistan over murder of British woman
ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani court on Tuesday opened the trial against the father and ex-husband of a British woman over her alleged rape and murder in the name of so-called honour. The court delivered cop...
Sep 27, 2016
Man rescued at sea tells Coast Guard of search for mother
BOSTON - A man who says he spent a week at sea in a life raft before being rescued told the Coast Guard he frantically looked for his mother as their fishing boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean, according...
Sep 27, 2016