Category Archives: World
The Latest: Guest next to Vegas gunman's room 'shaken'
LAS VEGAS - The Latest on the shooting in Las Vegas (all times local): 11:30 p.m. An Australian man who says he had the room next to the gunman’s says he’s “shaken” by Sunday&#...
Oct 02, 2017
WHAT'S HAPPENING: Las Vegas hotel gunman's motive a mystery
LAS VEGAS - The motive behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history remained a mystery as police sought to learn more about the apparent “lone wolf” gunman who opened fire on ...
Oct 02, 2017
UK tries to bring home 110,000 travellers after airline fails
LONDON - British authorities are scrambling to bring home 110,000 travellers after Monarch Airlines collapsed Monday, cancelling all flights by what had been Britain’s fifth biggest carrier with...
Oct 02, 2017
Vanuatu island exodus continues even as volcano stabilizes
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The evacuation of a Vanuatu island was continuing on Monday even after scientists said an erupting volcano had stabilized. A makeshift fleet of vessels ranging from tiny wate...
Oct 02, 2017
Loved ones mourn victims of Las Vegas shooting attack
At least 59 concert-goers never made it home after a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel onto a crowd of more than 22,000 below at a country music festival. They were school te...
Oct 02, 2017
US-led coalition: Service member killed in explosion in Iraq
BAGHDAD - The U.S.-led coalition said on Monday that a service member was killed and another was wounded the previous day in Iraq when an explosion from a booby-trapped device struck their vehicle. Ac...
Oct 02, 2017
Trial starts diving into France's homegrown jihadi violence
PARIS - More than five years after a French-Algerian extremist killed three children and a teacher at a Jewish school and three soldiers in a shooting rampage, emotions still proved raw on the first d...
Oct 02, 2017
Bringing 'Blade Runner' back to life after 35 years
LOS ANGELES - It was dawn on the set of “Blade Runner 2049” and Harrison Ford and director Denis Villeneuve were swimming back to the shore together after an all-night shoot in a million-g...
Oct 02, 2017
Myanmar takes foreign diplomats into conflict-torn Rakhine
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar authorities took foreign diplomats and United Nations representatives on a tour Monday of conflict-torn northern Rakhine state, where a security crackdown has led to an exodu...
Oct 02, 2017
India: Pakistan firing kills boy, teenage girl in Kashmir
NEW DELHI - Indian and Pakistani troops fired at each other in the disputed Kashmir region on Monday, killing a 10-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl and injuring 12 other civilians on the Indian sid...
Oct 02, 2017