Category Archives: World

AT&T, Discovery join media houses as cord-cutting encroaches
NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T will combine its massive media operations that include CNN HBO, TNT and TBS in a $43 billion deal with Discovery, the owner of lifestyle networks including the Food Network an...
May 17, 2021

Afghans who helped the US now fear being left behind
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - He served as an interpreter alongside U.S. soldiers on hundreds of patrols and dozens of firefights in eastern Afghanistan, earning a glowing letter of recommendation from an...
May 17, 2021

India braces for powerful cyclone amid deadly virus surge
NEW DELHI (AP) - A powerful cyclone roaring in the Arabian Sea was moving toward India's western coast on Monday as authorities tried to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people and suspended COVID-19...
May 17, 2021

Dogged by Mideast crisis, US envoy Blinken visits Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Denmark on Monday for talks on climate change, Arctic policy and Russia as calls grew for the Biden administration to take a to...
May 17, 2021

Israel says Gaza tunnels destroyed in heavy airstrikes
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Israeli military unleashed a wave of heavy airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early Monday, saying it destroyed 15 kilometers (nine miles) of militant tunnels and the homes ...
May 17, 2021

Islamic nations hold emergency summit on Israel-Gaza attacks
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation opened an emergency meeting Sunday over the heavy fighting between Israel and the Gaza Strip's militant Hamas ruler...
May 16, 2021

Severe cyclone heading toward southern India; 4 dead
NEW DELHI (AP) - A severe cyclone is roaring in the Arabian Sea off southwestern India with winds of up to 140 kilometers per hour (87 miles per hour), already causing heavy rains and flooding that ha...
May 16, 2021

Myanmar junta attacks western town that resisted coup
BANGKOK (AP) - The U.S. and British embassies in Myanmar expressed concern about reports of fierce government attacks on a town in western Chin state, where the ruling junta declared martial law becau...
May 16, 2021

Israeli military targets home of Gaza's top Hamas leader
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military says it has targeted the home of Gaza's top Hamas leader after nearly a week of heavy airstrikes and rocket fire into Israel from the territory ruled by the Islam...
May 15, 2021

Janet Jackson's ensembles from "Scream" video sold for $125K
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Janet Jackson's ensembles she wore in the "Scream" music video opposite of her brother Michael Jackson are among the items up for bid in a three-day auction. Julien's Auct...
May 15, 2021