Category Archives: CP_World
Yemeni rebels kill 20, arrest dozens in latest crackdown
CAIRO - Yemen’s official news agency says the Shiite rebels have killed at least 20 people and detained dozens across the country’s north since killing their top ally, former President Ali...
Dec 11, 2017
Iraqi Shiite cleric urges militias to disarm after IS defeat
BAGHDAD - An influential Iraqi Shiite cleric on Monday urged his fighters to hand state-issued weapons back to the government, following Iraq’s declaration of victory against the Islamic State g...
Dec 11, 2017
Russia says its athletes want to compete at the Olympics
MOSCOW - Russian athletes are overwhelmingly in favour of competing at the upcoming Pyeongchang Games despite a ban on the national team, the country’s Olympic committee said Monday. Sofia Velik...
Dec 11, 2017
Smoke alarm sets off fire scare in Austrian Alpine tunnel
BERLIN - A fire alarm inside a railway tunnel being built under the Austrian Alps prompted workers briefly to take shelter in an underground safety area Monday, a project manager said. Eighteen people...
Dec 11, 2017
US to help Cambodia preserve Khmer Rouge victims' belongings
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The U.S government has provided more than $55,000 to Cambodia for the preserving of personal items belonging to prisoners at a Khmer Rouge prison and torture centre in the 1970s...
Dec 11, 2017
Diphtheria deaths in Indonesia spark immunization campaign
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia is immunizing millions of children and teenagers against diphtheria after the disease killed 38 people, mostly children, since January. Children in school uniforms and t...
Dec 11, 2017
UK leader says there's new optimism in Brexit talks
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May says there is a new sense of optimism in the talks to secure Britain’s departure from the European Union. May is set to address the House of Commons o...
Dec 11, 2017
Indonesians burn US flags in 4th day of Jerusalem protests
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Activists burned U.S. and Israeli flags in front of the American embassy in Jakarta on Monday in a fourth day of protests in Indonesia against President Donald Trump’s recog...
Dec 11, 2017
Ferry runs aground in Channel in high winds, all are rescued
PARIS - A ferry carrying 313 people ran aground Sunday amid high winds off the French port of Calais, interrupting boat traffic across the English Channel. Authorities safely evacuated those on board....
Dec 11, 2017
Australian city of Melbourne to test terrorism alarm system
MELBOURNE, Australia - Melbourne will test a terrorism alarm system this month after police thwarted two alleged plots targeting Christmas-New Year crowds and a lone driver killed six pedestrians in t...
Dec 11, 2017