Category Archives: CP_World

HOUSTON - Crews have extinguished a fire that’s burned for days at a Houston-area petrochemicals storage facility. International Terminals Company says the blaze in Deer Park was extinguished as...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May was set to ask the European Union on Wednesday for a delay to the country’s divorce from the bloc, due to take place in nine days. But the EU warned i...

LONDON - Fugitive diamond tycoon Nirav Modi, who is wanted over his alleged involvement in a $2 billion banking fraud, has been arrested in London at the request of Indian authorities. The 48-year-old...

CAIRO - A prominent Egyptian novelist is concerned about a possible lawsuit against him after a Cairo lawyer filed a complaint accusing him of “insulting the president, the armed forces and judi...

ANKARA, Turkey - A moderately-strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit southwestern Turkey on Wednesday, Turkish authorities said. At least three people sustained minor injuries but t...

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - The recently formed city of South Fulton, Georgia, has fired its first municipal judge over allegations that she bullied workers and approved filming a reality TV show in her court...

COEBURN, Va. - Former coal miner John Robinson’s bills for black lung treatments run $4,000 a month, but the federal fund he depends on to help cover them is being drained of money because of in...

Disney is closing its $71 billion acquisition of Fox’s entertainment business in a move set to shake up the media landscape. The deal paves the way for Disney to launch its streaming service, Di...

NEW YORK - Hundreds of pages of court records made public Tuesday revealed that special counsel Robert Mueller quickly zeroed in on Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorn...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for “the safest country in the world” were buried before hundreds of mourners Wednesday, the first funerals for...