Category Archives: World

Plane with 22 people on board missing in Nepal's mountains
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A small airplane with 22 people on board flying on a popular tourist route was missing in Nepal's mountains on Sunday, an official said. The plane, which was on a 15-minute sch...
May 28, 2022

Tear gas fired at Liverpool fans amid CL final stadium chaos
PARIS (AP) - Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters forced to endure lengthy waits to get into the Champions League final which was delayed for 37 minutes as security stru...
May 28, 2022

Children among 31 killed at church fair stampede in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - A stampede Saturday at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured, police told The Associated Press, a shocking development at a program tha...
May 28, 2022

Former Virginia Tech player acquitted in 2021 beating death
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va (AP) - A jury on Friday acquitted a former Virginia Tech football player who had been accused of fatally beating a man he says he initially believed from a Tinder match to be a woma...
May 27, 2022

Florida condo collapse settlement reached, tops $1 billion
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Attorneys for the families who lost relatives in last year's collapse of a Florida condominium tower that killed 98 people reached a $1.02 billion settlement Friday, provi...
May 27, 2022

Iran seizes 2 Greek tankers in Persian Gulf as tensions rise
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers Friday in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf, officials said. The action appeared to ...
May 27, 2022

Questions arise over police delays with gunman inside school
UVALDE, Texas (AP) - The gunman who killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school was in the building for over an hour before he was killed by law enforcement officers, authorities say. It was 11:28 a...
May 27, 2022

Racism in the ranks: Dutch police film spurs conversation
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A documentary about discrimination within the ranks of Dutch police has sparked a national conversation in the Netherlands about racism, with many officers and others hop...
May 27, 2022

Biden to console families in Uvalde, press for action
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to console families and honor victims of Tuesday's mass school shooting in which 19 children and...
May 26, 2022

Parole recommended for California follower of Charles Manson
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A California parole panel recommended the release of Patricia Krenwinkel for the first time Thursday, more than five decades after she and other followers of cult leader Char...
May 26, 2022