Category Archives: World
Macedonia: Early results say voters back left-wing coalition
SKOPJE, Macedonia - Early returns from municipal elections being watched as a test of Macedonia’s new left-wing administration indicated Sunday night that voters are backing the government. Resu...
Oct 16, 2017
Court jails 2 Catalan independence leaders in sedition probe
BARCELONA, Spain - Spain’s confrontation with its independence-seeking region of Catalonia intensified Monday when a judge ordered the leaders of two pro-independence groups jailed while they ar...
Oct 16, 2017
Wild elephants attack Rohingya camp, killing 4 in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Wild elephants attacked a new camp where Rohingya refugees were sleeping, killing a woman and her three children in southern Bangladesh, an official said Sunday. A herd of elephant...
Oct 16, 2017
Iraqi forces push into disputed Kirkuk as Kurds withdraw
KIRKUK, Iraq - Two weeks after fighting together against the Islamic State group, Iraqi forces pushed their Kurdish allies out of the disputed city of Kirkuk on Monday, seizing oil fields and other fa...
Oct 16, 2017
Israeli military strikes anti-aircraft battery in Syria
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military said it struck and destroyed an anti-aircraft battery deep in Syria on Monday after it had opened fire on Israeli jets flying over Lebanon - a rare incident of Syrian ...
Oct 16, 2017
Report: Harvey Weinstein's brother in a 'waking nightmare'
NEW YORK - The brother of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and co-founder of the company that now finds itself in crisis says he’s in “a waking nightmare” and had no idea ̶...
Oct 16, 2017
Owners of 'Breaking Bad' house build fence around property
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A fence is going up around the real Albuquerque house made famous by the methamphetamine-making character Walter White. The owners are installing a 6-foot (2 metre) wrought iron fe...
Oct 16, 2017
Trump: Cuba 'is responsible' for attacks on US personnel
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Monday that he believes Cuba is responsible for unexplained, invisible attacks in Cuba that have harmed American government workers. Though Trump’s comme...
Oct 16, 2017
7 dead in Kenya school shooting in suspected revenge attack
NAIROBI, Kenya - Gunmen shot dead seven people, including six students, in a raid on a high school early Saturday that appeared to be a revenge attack by a student who had been suspended for fighting,...
Oct 16, 2017
James Corden catches flak for joking about Harvey Weinstein
LOS ANGELES - Television talk show host James Corden is facing a backlash over jokes he made about Harvey Weinstein. Corden made a string of quips about Weinstein and the sexual misconduct allegations...
Oct 16, 2017