Category Archives: World

Spain: Conservative party rift grows into all-out battle
MADRID (AP) - Months of simmering tensions within Spain's conservative main opposition party came to a head Friday, amid fresh allegations that Popular Party members tried to launch a smear campaign a...
Feb 18, 2022

Greece: 2 trapped in burning ferry, 11 others missing
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek authorities say firefighters and rescue specialists are racing to try and free two truck drivers stranded inside a burning ferry off western Greece, while 11 others have be...
Feb 18, 2022

Rebel leader in east Ukraine announces civilian evacuation
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A separatist leader in eastern Ukraine has announced the evacuation of civilians to Russia amid soaring tensions. Denish Pushilin, the head of the separatist government in the Don...
Feb 18, 2022

Prince Harry lawyers say he feels unsafe bringing kids to UK
LONDON (AP) - Lawyers for Prince Harry told a court hearing on Friday that the British royal is unwilling to bring his children to his homeland because it is not safe. Harry has launched a legal chall...
Feb 18, 2022

Indian court sentences 38 to death for fatal 2008 bombings
NEW DELHI (AP) - A court in India on Friday sentenced to death 38 people for a series of bomb blasts in 2008 that left more than 50 dead and 200 wounded in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, whic...
Feb 18, 2022

Sources: 19 Austin police officers indicted in protest probe
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas grand jury has indicted 19 Austin police officers on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for their actions during 2020 protests over racial injustice that s...
Feb 17, 2022

California adopts nation's first 'endemic' virus policy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the first shift by a state to an "endemic" approach to the coronavirus pandemic that emphasizes prevention and quick reacti...
Feb 17, 2022

Pelosi opens Biden State of the Union speech to full House
WASHINGTON (AP) - All members of Congress are being invited to attend President Joe Biden's upcoming State of the Union address, crowding the House chamber for the first time since the outbreak of the...
Feb 17, 2022

Sharpton: Locke was guilty only of being 'Black in America'
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton told the hundreds gathered Thursday for the funeral for Amir Locke that the 22-year-old man who was shot by Minneapolis police as they served a no-knock search ...
Feb 17, 2022

Judge: Deputy who killed Casey Goodson not a federal agent
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio sheriff's deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. was not acting in his role as a deputized U.S. marshal at the time of the shooting, and the murder case against the d...
Feb 17, 2022