Category Archives: World

Iran says 92 dead amid 2,922 cases of the new coronavirus
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says the new coronavirus has killed 92 people amid 2,922 confirmed cases across the Islamic Republic. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour announced the new figures at a ne...
Mar 04, 2020

Lawyer says award-winning Iran filmmaker summoned to prison
TEHRAN, Iran - A lawyer for Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who just won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear, says he's been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence. Nasser Zarafshan told...
Mar 04, 2020

1 murder charge, 3 deaths loom over Durst as trial opens
LOS ANGELES - The last time Robert Durst was on trial for murder, he testified that he had dismembered his elderly neighbour's body, put it in garbage bags and tossed them in the Gulf of Mexico. He wa...
Mar 03, 2020

Democrat MJ Hegar makes runoff in crowded Texas Senate race
AUSTIN, Texas - Democrat MJ Hegar, a former Air Force helicopter pilot seeking to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, advanced to a runoff in May after falling short of capturing the nomination o...
Mar 03, 2020

AP source: Bloomberg to reassess after disappointing results
LOS ANGELES - Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg will reassess on Wednesday whether he should stay in the race after getting disappointing results in Super Tuesday primaries despite spen...
Mar 03, 2020

Inside the final month of Buttigieg's historic campaign
WASHINGTON - He opened February by sharing victory with one of the Democratic Party's best-known figures and ended it with a humbling defeat at the hands of another. Yet Pete Buttigieg's unlikely path...
Mar 03, 2020

4-time Iditarod champion sidelined by medical emergency
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Emergency surgery has sidelined a four-time winner of Alaska's famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race days before he was set to compete in his 30th race. Jeff King withdrew Tuesday ove...
Mar 03, 2020

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, Dem Cal Cunningham are NC Senate picks
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Democratic state lawmaker Cal Cunningham, the primary candidate favoured by his party's leaders in the U.S. Senate, advanced Tuesday to a general election challenge against GOP ...
Mar 03, 2020

In NC, Gov. Roy Cooper and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest win primaries
RALEIGH, N.C. - Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina won his party's primary Tuesday and will face Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest in the November general election, seeking a second term. It's ...
Mar 03, 2020

Democrats: Judge extends Tennessee voting in storm-hit area
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A judge has extended voting hours in a Nashville-area county after four Democratic presidential candidates sued to keep Super Tuesday polls open after tornado damage there, a Democrat...
Mar 03, 2020