Category Archives: World
Trump: 'Stay tuned' for news on Americans detained in NKorea
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is hinting there soon may be an update on the three Americans being held captive in North Korea. Trump tweeted Wednesday: “As everybody is aware, the past Adm...
May 03, 2018
Poverty-stricken Armenians pin hopes on opposition
LUSAGYUGH, Armenia - The local tax inspector would visit Alik Stepanyan’s small fishery in an Armenian mountain village every month to collect a bribe. Each time, Stepanyan would hand over 15 to...
May 03, 2018
Basque survivors warn against forgetting ETA's violence
MADRID - The disbanding of ETA, the Basque militant group that stained Spain’s return to democracy with blood, arrived as bittersweet news for Inaki Garcia, whose father died at its hands 38 yea...
May 03, 2018
China congratulates North Korea's Kim on reducing tensions
BEIJING - China’s foreign minister congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday on his moves to reduce tensions with South Korea, China said. Their meeting in Pyongyang underscored ...
May 03, 2018
Mahathir wants to rule Malaysia again, shakes up election
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia’s former authoritarian leader Mahathir Mohamad wasn’t invited to the forum that planned to debate whether at well past 90 years he is too old to be prime ...
May 03, 2018
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camps await new danger: rain
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh - The Rohingya refugees have escaped soldiers and gunfire. They have escaped mobs that stormed through their villages, killing and raping and burning. They have fled Myanmar, th...
May 03, 2018
George Harrison's first electric guitar up for auction
NEW YORK - George Harrison’s first electric guitar is up for auction. Julien’s Auctions says Harrison played the Hoffner Club 40 when The Beatles played around Liverpool, England, as The Q...
May 03, 2018
Paulina Porizkova, Ric Ocasek separate after 28 years
NEW YORK - Paulina Porizkova and Ric Ocasek have separated after 28 years of marriage. The model and actress announced on Instagram on Wednesday that she and the Cars rocker have not been a couple ...
May 03, 2018
Teachers flee, schools close in Kenya with al-Shabab attacks
NAIROBI, Kenya - Every school day, Abdirizack Hussein Bashir rises at dawn for an eight-kilometre (five-mile) trek through a dangerous forest where he sometimes faces harassment by Kenyan army patrols...
May 03, 2018
Vanuatu plans to permanently evacuate entire volcanic island
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water ...
May 03, 2018