Category Archives: World

NY to move some primaries to August after court tosses maps
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York New York will hold its congressional and state Senate primaries on Aug. 23, a state judge ordered Friday. Steuben County Judge Patrick McAllister said that special master ...
Apr 29, 2022

Former Idaho lawmaker found guilty of raping intern
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A former Idaho lawmaker was convicted Friday of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern after a dramatic trial in which the young woman fled the witness stand during testimony, say...
Apr 29, 2022

Powerful explosion at Kabul mosque kills at least 10 people
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding as many as 30, a Taliban spokesman said. Hundre...
Apr 29, 2022

Relatives: Former US Marine killed fighting in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) - A former U.S. Marine was killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, his relatives told news outlets in what's the first known death of a U.S. citizen fighting...
Apr 29, 2022

Frontex chief offers to resign over pushback claims
BRUSSELS (AP) - The head of the European Union's border agency has offered to resign following allegations that the agency was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants, officials from the European Co...
Apr 29, 2022

Lawmaker: Sri Lanka president agrees to remove brother as PM
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's president has agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the country's worst ec...
Apr 29, 2022

Man charged with killing 18 in Texas convicted in 1 slaying
A man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a two-year span was convicted Thursday in one of the cases against him after an earlier mistrial. Billy Chemirmir, 49, was found guilt...
Apr 28, 2022

House passes military lend-lease bill to speed Ukraine aid
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. House gave final passage Thursday to legislation that would streamline a World War II-era military lend-lease program to more quickly provide Ukraine and other Eastern Europ...
Apr 28, 2022

Explosions in northern Afghanistan kill at least 9, wound 13
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Two explosions, within minutes of each other, killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, a spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief...
Apr 28, 2022

Live updates | Briton killed in Ukraine, another missing
LONDON - The British government says a U.K. national has been killed in Ukraine, and another is missing. The Foreign Office confirmed Thursday that it is supporting the family of a British national ki...
Apr 28, 2022