Category Archives: World
Director Oliver Stone to discuss 'Snowden' at Kennedy school
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Academy Award winning director Oliver Stone will talk about his new film, “Snowden,” at the Harvard Kennedy School. The movie is set to be released in theatres on Friday...
Sep 11, 2016
Jails, prisons still trying to meet federal anti-rape rules
HOUSTON - Miguel Moll knew the risk of rape when he was thrown into a Texas jail in 1989 after joyriding in a stolen car. Then 17, he was placed in a holding pen in Houston, and an older inmate said o...
Sep 11, 2016

The Latest: Clinton calls off plans to travel to West Coast
NEW YORK - The Latest on the 2016 race for president (all times EDT): 10:24 p.m. Hillary Clinton is calling off plans to visit the West Coast on Monday and Tuesday following a health episode at the 9-...
Sep 11, 2016
Turkey replaces 28 elected officials with appointees
ISTANBUL - Turkish police used water cannons and teargas to disperse protesters Sunday after Ankara announced it had replaced 28 elected municipal and district mayors in several predominantly Kurdish ...
Sep 11, 2016

Clinton recovering after health episode, cancels Calif. trip
NEW YORK - An ill Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9-11 anniversary ceremony Sunday and needed to be held up by three people before she appeared to stumble off a curb and was helped into a van. Several...
Sep 11, 2016
40 who died in Pennsylvania in 9-11 attack remembered
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - The 40 passengers and crew members of a plane that crashed in western Pennsylvania after it was hijacked during the Sept. 11 attacks 15 years ago have been honoured with a reading o...
Sep 11, 2016

US nuclear plant up for sale at fraction of cost
HOLLYWOOD, Ala. - After spending more than 40 years and $5 billion on an unfinished nuclear power plant in northeastern Alabama, the nation’s largest federal utility is preparing to sell the pro...
Sep 11, 2016
Prominent thinkers urge Turkey to end writers' 'witch hunt'
ISTANBUL - About 40 prominent academics and authors from around the world are urging Turkey’s government to end what they say is the persecution of the country’s own writers and professors...
Sep 11, 2016
France warns of threats as boy arrested in feared attack
PARIS - French police have arrested a 15-year-old boy at his Paris home to thwart what they feared was a planned weekend attack, as the prime minister warned on Sunday some 15,000 people in the countr...
Sep 11, 2016

Magnitude-5.3 quake hits Macedonia; at least 30 injured
SKOPJE, Macedonia - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 struck on the outskirts of Macedonia’s capital on Sunday, injuring at least 30 people and causing minor damage to buildings,...
Sep 11, 2016