Category Archives: World

The Naked Cowboy arrested while performing at Bike Week
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A Times Square performer known as the Naked Cowboy was arrested on a misdemeanour charge of resisting arrest without violence and cited for panhandling while working a gig at Bik...
Mar 08, 2021

GOP Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri won't seek reelection in 2022
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri will not seek a third term in the U.S. Senate, he said Monday in a surprise announcement. Blunt, who turned 71 in January, was widely expect...
Mar 08, 2021

Malala takes her passions to the small screen with Apple
NEW YORK - Malala Yousafzai is a Nobel laureate known around the world for her activism, but she's also a cartoon fan, and is taking her love of television and film to Apple TV+. Yousafzai, 23, who gr...
Mar 08, 2021

Syrian president, wife test positive for coronavirus
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president's office said Monday, with both having only mild symptoms of the illness. In a stat...
Mar 08, 2021

Female farmers protest against new Indian agriculture laws
NEW DELHI - Thousands of female farmers held sit-ins and a hunger strike in India's capital on Monday in protests on International Women's Day against new agricultural laws. The demonstrations were he...
Mar 08, 2021

After delays, Israel starts vaccinating Palestinian workers
JERUSALEM - After delays, Israel started vaccinating Palestinians who work inside the country and its West Bank settlements on Monday, more than two months after launching an immunization blitz of its...
Mar 08, 2021

Harvard professor ignites uproar over 'comfort women' claims
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had actual...
Mar 08, 2021

After historic whirlwind visit, Pope leaves Iraq for Rome
BAGHDAD - Pope Francis on Monday wrapped up his historic whirlwind tour of Iraq that sought to bring hope to the country's marginalized Christian minority with a message of coexistence, forgiveness an...
Mar 08, 2021

Claimed value of sleepy NY estate could come to haunt Trump
NEW YORK - It's sleepy by Donald Trump's standards, but the former president's century-old estate in New York's Westchester County could end up being one of his bigger legal nightmares. Seven Springs,...
Mar 08, 2021

With virus aid in sight, Democrats debate filibuster changes
WASHINGTON - With President Joe Biden on the verge of his first big legislative victory, a key moderate Democrat says he's open to changing Senate rules that could allow for more party-line votes to p...
Mar 08, 2021