Category Archives: World

Officials: Buffalo gunman taunted law enforcement online
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket taunted law enforcement online last month and visited Buffalo back in March, in...
May 16, 2022

Elisabeth Borne appointed France's new prime minister
PARIS (AP) - Elisabeth Borne was appointed France's new prime minister on Monday to become the second woman to hold the post in the country. Borne, 61, succeeds Jean Castex, whose resignation was expe...
May 16, 2022

Reversing Trump, Biden acts to deploy US troops to Somalia
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Monday signed an order to deploy U.S. troops to Somalia amid heightened concerns about the country's Islamic extremist rebels, known as al-Shabab. The move is ...
May 16, 2022

Burkina Faso fashion designers: More to nation than conflict
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) - Vibrant African clothes, both traditional and contemporary, enlivened the catwalk in Burkina Faso's fashion week. Designers say they are striving to make the West Afri...
May 16, 2022

US deaths from COVID hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years in
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration. The confirmed numb...
May 16, 2022

Parishioners subdue gunman in fatal California church attack
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) - A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five senior citizens before a pastor hit the gunman on the head ...
May 15, 2022

Hyde, Bills commit to helping victims of Buffalo shooting
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Micah Hyde considered canceling his charity softball game after hearing about the shooting Saturday at a Buffalo supermarket. The Bills safety knew he and his teammates could try ...
May 15, 2022

Authorities: 1 killed, 5 hurt in California church shooting
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) - One person was killed and four others were critically wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon at a Presbyterian church in a suburban Southern California community where the ...
May 15, 2022

Saudi King Salman leaves hospital after week-long stay
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - King Salman of Saudi Arabia was discharged from the hospital and slowly walked with the aid of a cane Sunday evening after a colonoscopy a week earlier, according to a vide...
May 15, 2022

Somali reelects president, 5 years after he was voted out
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A former Somali president voted out of power in 2017 has been reelected to the country's top job after defeating the incumbent leader in a protracted contest decided by legis...
May 15, 2022