Category Archives: World
Trump drawing of Empire State Building sells for $16,000
LOS ANGELES - A sketch of the Empire State Building drawn by President Donald Trump has sold at auction for $16,000. Julien’s Auctions says the 12-inch-by-9-inch black marker depiction of the ic...
Oct 20, 2017
140 arrested in Malawi after mob attacks on 'vampires'
LILONGWE, Malawi - Deadly mob attacks on people suspected to be “vampires” have led to 140 arrests in Malawi, police said Friday. The situation had spun out of control, the inspector gener...
Oct 20, 2017
Police: Stabbings at Polish shopping mall not terror attack
WARSAW, Poland - A man with a knife stabbed people Friday at a shopping mall in southeastern Poland, killing one person and injuring nine others, police said, ruling out terror or political motives fo...
Oct 20, 2017
IS claims responsibility for Afghan mosque attack
KABUL - The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the capital as Afghan officials on Saturday raised the number of casualties from the attack to at lea...
Oct 20, 2017
TV Academy votes to consider expelling Harvey Weinstein
NEW YORK - The Television Academy says it has voted to begin disciplinary proceedings against disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. The academy’s board of governors issued a statement Friday de...
Oct 20, 2017
Charges, insults fly after Trump aide assails congresswoman
WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday rushed to defend chief of staff John Kelly after he mischaracterized the remarks of a Democratic congresswoman and called her an “empty barrel” makin...
Oct 20, 2017
Countries with the highest pollution deaths, mortality rates
NEW DELHI - Increasing pollution worldwide is proving deadlier than war, natural disasters or smoking, according to a new report published in the Lancet medical journal. Based largely on 2015 data fro...
Oct 20, 2017
Study: Pollution kills 9 million a year, costs $4.6 trillion
NEW DELHI - Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. ...
Oct 20, 2017
Viral smartphone game lets ordinary Chinese 'clap' for Xi
BEIJING - Ordinary young Chinese may not have paid close attention to Xi Jinping’s 3 1/2-hour speech this week, but they’re happy to “applaud” the president in the newest viral...
Oct 20, 2017
Make China Great Again! Xi leads China into muscular new era
BEIJING - In this summer’s “Wolf Warrior II,” Chinese action star Wu Jing portrays a tough super-patriot who rescues both fellow countrymen and oppressed Africans with help from the ...
Oct 20, 2017