Category Archives: World

South Africans in coffin assault get over 10 years in prison
JOHANNESBURG - Two white South Africans have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to set him on fire. A judge in Mpumalanga province ann...
Oct 27, 2017

American who joined, escaped Islamic State gets 20 years
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - More than 100 people in the U.S. have been charged with trying to help the Islamic State, or trying to join it, but Mohamad Khweis stood out because he succeeded. Khweis, 27, the onl...
Oct 27, 2017

Sailboat survivors recount doomed Pacific voyage
HONOLULU - Trapped on a storm-battered boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for months, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava were just about out of food and beginning to believe they were completely out...
Oct 27, 2017
2 Myanmar pastors sentenced to prison for supporting rebels
YANGON, Myanmar - A Myanmar court sentenced two ethnic Kachin Baptist pastors to prison terms on Friday on charges of supporting rebels and defaming the military, their lawyers said. The two were deta...
Oct 27, 2017
Prosecutors: US conspiracy came amid slow sales of opioid
PHOENIX - A new mouth spray that delivered the powerful painkiller fentanyl to end-stage cancer patients wasn’t selling as well as anticipated. So drug company executives moved quickly to make i...
Oct 27, 2017

Cuba presents detailed defence against sonic attack charges
HAVANA - Cuba on Thursday presented its most detailed defence to date against U.S. accusations that American diplomats in Havana were subjected to mysterious sonic attacks that left them with a variet...
Oct 27, 2017
Germany's bankrupt Air Berlin operates its last flights
BERLIN - Germany’s bankrupt Air Berlin is operating its last flights, leaving employees facing an uncertain future and - at least for a while - a likely gap in the country’s aviation sched...
Oct 27, 2017

Texas district attorney overseeing biker cases seeks recusal
FORT WORTH, Texas - The Texas district attorney prosecuting bikers allegedly involved in a 2015 shootout with police in Waco asked for his office to be recused from the case of a biker scheduled to st...
Oct 27, 2017
Belatedly, Trump admin finishes list of off-limits Russians
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration gave Congress on Thursday a list of Russian officials who may soon become off-limits to anyone who wants to avoid U.S. sanctions, as criticism mounted over the ad...
Oct 27, 2017
Hammers, axes will help test Trump border wall prototypes
SAN DIEGO - The U.S. government announced Thursday that prototypes for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico have been completed and will be subjected to punishment to test t...
Oct 27, 2017