Category Archives: World

US job openings surge to record 9.3 million in April
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. employers posted a record 9.3 million job openings in April with the U.S. economy reopening at break-neck speed. The number of job openings soared 12% from the 8.3 million count...
Jun 08, 2021

Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's conviction upheld
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - U.N. appeals judges have upheld the convictions of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic for genocide and other offenses during Bosnia's 1992-95 war and confirm...
Jun 08, 2021

French leader Macron is slapped during visit to small town
PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron has been slapped in the face by a man during a visit to a small town in southeast France. Macron's office on Tuesday confirmed a video that is widely circ...
Jun 08, 2021

CMT to honor Black country music pioneer Linda Martell
NEW YORK (AP) - Linda Martell, one of the pioneers for Black acts in country music and the first Black woman to perform solo at the Grand Ole Opry, will be honored at the 2021 CMT Music Awards. The 86...
Jun 08, 2021

Swaths of internet down, outage at cloud company Fastly
LONDON (AP) - Numerous websites were unavailable Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at the cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twi...
Jun 08, 2021

Global sting: FBI-encrypted app tricks organized crime
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A global sting involving an encrypted communications platform developed by the FBI has sparked a series of raids and arrests around the world, delivering "an unprecedent...
Jun 08, 2021

Senate report details sweeping failures around Jan. 6 attack
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps before the violent attack, including a bre...
Jun 08, 2021

Music fans flock to Albania’s beach festival despite virus
RANA E HEDHUN, Albania (AP) - The Albanian beach site had everything in one place: pine trees, sand, sea, nearby mountains and days of nonstop music. "It's very rare that you got all of those things t...
Jun 08, 2021

Oregon lawmaker faces expulsion in assault on state Capitol
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - A Republican state lawmaker faces being expelled from office after a video emerged apparently showing him choreographing how he would let far-right protesters into the closed Oregon...
Jun 07, 2021

Luiselli's prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries' test with her first novel written directly in English, "Lost Children Archive" ("Sound Desert"), which received the Dublin ...
Jun 07, 2021