Category Archives: CP_World

KIEV, Ukraine - In the raw cold and winter rain, Serhiy Hrey stood amid a protest tent camp outside Ukraine’s parliament, making firebombs and declaring his readiness to fight. He’s toughe...

TOKYO - The head priest of a prominent shrine in Tokyo was ambushed and killed with a samurai sword, apparently by her brother, who then took his own life, police said Friday. A female accomplice also...

BOSTON - Meryl Streep says she and other actresses are planning to make a series of “non-negotiable” demands in the wake of the sexual misconduct allegations that have rocked Hollywood, me...

COPENHAGEN - The former husband of Norwegian King Harald’s daughter is alleging that actor Kevin Spacey groped him during the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo. Ari Behn, Princess Martha Lo...

BERLIN - Ten people have gone on trial in Germany on charges related to a deadly mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival in 2010. Twenty-one people died on July 24, 2010, in a crush in a p...

NEW YORK - Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. will not be a contributor on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program until allegations of misconduct against him are resolved. “Morning Joe&...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A leading Russian sports official has urged the IOC to reverse a ban on the country’s flag from the Pyeongchang Olympics. Alisher Usmanov, the president of the Internatio...

NEW DELHI - Police in western India have arrested a Hindu man they say brutally killed a Muslim labourer in an apparent religious attack. The Press Trust of India news agency reported late Thursday th...

VATICAN CITY - European evaluators have praised the Vatican’s financial watchdogs for efficiently flagging suspicious transactions but have once again faulted Vatican prosecutors for failing to ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Efforts to prosecute the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and four co-defendants are stalled in part over a lingering issue Americans haven’t yet resolved: tor...