Category Archives: World
'Avengers: Endgame' sets multiple records at box office
NEW YORK - “Avengers: Endgame” is crushing the competition by setting multiple records at the box office a day after its release. The Walt Disney Co. says domestically the film opened Frid...
Apr 27, 2019
Finders keepers? Police say no way after $30K spills on road
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. - Police in Michigan are appealing to people to surrender their instant riches after a box with $30,000 fell off the back of a truck. Authorities in Grand Haven say drivers stopped ...
Apr 27, 2019
PBS film 'KOREA' eyes social, political tolls of Korean War
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - To escape the poverty of South Texas migrant camps, Homer Garza joined the U.S. Army. Months later he and his company found themselves surrounded in South Korea by an invading Nort...
Apr 27, 2019
Striking Chicago musicians and symphony reach tentative deal
CHICAGO - Negotiators for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and musicians have reached an agreement to end a nearly seven-week strike. A spokesman for the musicians says a ratification vote on the five-y...
Apr 27, 2019
Trump, Japanese leader cap visit with golf outing
STERLING, Va. - President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared their love of golf on a sunny, windy Saturday at the president’s northern Virginia course. Trump said on the ...
Apr 27, 2019
Oliver North out as NRA president after leadership dispute
INDIANAPOLIS - Oliver North announced Saturday that he would not serve a second term as National Rifle Association president, making it clear he had been forced out by the gun lobby’s leadership...
Apr 27, 2019
Pakistan suspends anti-polio drive after attacks on workers
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani health officials say the country has suspended a nationwide anti-polio campaign after a health worker and two policemen escorting vaccination teams were killed in separate attack...
Apr 27, 2019
160,000 at risk in Mozambique after 2nd cyclone in 6 weeks
PEMBA, Mozambique - A second disaster unfolded on Sunday in northern Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth as raging flood waters killed one person and began to cut off the region’s main cit...
Apr 27, 2019
Militant attacks kill 22 government troops in north Syria
BEIRUT - Al-Qaida-linked militants launched attacks early Saturday on government forces positions in northern Syria killing and wounding dozens in the latest violation of a seven-month truce in the la...
Apr 27, 2019
Sri Lanka militants set off bombs during raid, killing 15
AMPARA, Sri Lanka - Militants linked to Easter suicide bombings opened fire and set off explosives during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces on a house in the country’s east, leaving behind a ...
Apr 26, 2019