Category Archives: World

Thai court gives record 43-year sentence for insulting king
BANGKOK - A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country's strict law on insulting or defaming the monarch...
Jan 19, 2021

A new COVID-19 challenge: Mutations rise along with cases
The race against the virus that causes COVID-19 has taken a new turn: Mutations are rapidly popping up, and the longer it takes to vaccinate people, the more likely it is that a variant that can elude...
Jan 19, 2021

Turkey slaps advertising ban on Twitter, Pinterest
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey on Tuesday slapped advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest over their non-compliance with a controversial new law that requires social media platforms to appoint l...
Jan 19, 2021

Spain's rising cases give pandemic hospital a second chance
MADRID - As soon as the lifeless body is silently pushed away on a stretcher, a cleaning battalion moves into the intensive care box. In a matter of minutes, the bed where the 72-year-old woman fought...
Jan 19, 2021

Workers trapped week in China mine ask for pickles, porridge
BEIJING - Workers trapped for more than a week in a Chinese gold mine asked for pickles and porridge to be dropped to them while they wait to be rescued, state media reported Tuesday. The website of t...
Jan 18, 2021

Group: Billions in aid needed to help Afghan kids in 2021
KABUL - Some 10 million children in war-ravaged Afghanistan are at risk of not having enough food to eat in 2021, a humanitarian organization said Tuesday, and called for billions in new funds for aid...
Jan 18, 2021

Biden has set sky-high expectations. Can he meet them?
WASHINGTON - Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big. He flew to Warm Springs, the Georgia town whose thermal waters once brought Franklin Delano Roosevelt comfo...
Jan 18, 2021

Biden's national security Cabinet nominees face Senate tests
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's national security Cabinet may be bare on Day One of his presidency, but an inauguration-eve spurt of Senate confirmation hearings suggests that won't be the ca...
Jan 18, 2021

Biden's hefty to-do list starts with a flurry of orders
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden has given himself an imposing to-do list for his earliest days as president and many promises to keep over the longer haul. Overshadowing everything at the very start is Biden's...
Jan 18, 2021

Exhausted hospital chaplains bring solace to lonely, dying
LOS ANGELES - Inside hospital rooms across America, where the sick are alone without family to comfort them, the grim task of offering solace falls to overworked and emotionally drained hospital chapl...
Jan 18, 2021