Category Archives: World

Passenger train derails in Spain, killing 4 and injuring 48
LISBON, Portugal - A passenger train derailed Friday in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region, killing at least four people, including an American tourist, and injuring 48 others who were taken to...
Sep 09, 2016

Forum puts focus on how Clinton is judged compared to Trump
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - For months, Hillary Clinton’s supporters have griped that she’s held to a higher, harder standard than Donald Trump. After Wednesday night’s forum on national se...
Sep 09, 2016
Tourists rescued after overnight Mont Blanc cable car ordeal
CHAMONIX, France - Dozens of tourists, including three children, were rescued Friday after being trapped overnight in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps. Their return to la...
Sep 09, 2016
Get your ballots ready: Voting in White House race underway
WASHINGTON - Get ready: Voting in the 2016 election is now underway. Advance voting begins Friday in North Carolina, the first of 37 states that will allow balloting by mail for any reason or in perso...
Sep 09, 2016

House conservatives serve notice to Ryan - and Clinton
WASHINGTON - Since returning from their summer recess, House conservatives have wasted no time showing just how tough they can make life for Speaker Paul Ryan - and for Democrat Hillary Clinton, if sh...
Sep 09, 2016
Giant cruise ship makes historic voyage in melting Arctic
NOME, Alaska - The giant luxury cruise liner was anchored just off Nome, too hulking to use the Bering Sea community’s docks on its inaugural visit. Instead, its more than 900 passengers piled i...
Sep 09, 2016
North Dakota tribe's request to stop work on pipeline denied
NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. - An American Indian tribe’s attempt to halt construction of an oil pipeline near its North Dakota reservation failed in federal court Friday, but ...
Sep 09, 2016
Greece urged to speed up reforms to get more bailout cash
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - European creditors urged the Greek government Friday to speed up the implementation of a series of economic reforms so it can get its hands on the next batch of bailout cash bef...
Sep 08, 2016
40 years after death, Mao's mixed legacy looms over China
BEIJING - Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and ran it virtually uncontested until his death on Sept. 9, 1976. Whil...
Sep 08, 2016
Officials: Student fine after shooting at Utah high school
SALT LAKE CITY - A teenager shot with a pellet-type gun after a homecoming pep rally at a suburban Salt Lake City high school has been released from the hospital after getting stitches. Granite School...
Sep 08, 2016