Category Archives: World
Rival groups clash in Syria's rebel-packed Idlib
BEIRUT - Clashes have broken out in northwestern Syria between two of the most powerful insurgent groups there raising fears of widespread violence in the rebel-held province of Idlib, the groups and ...
Jul 15, 2017
New boy muppet in Afghanistan promotes gender equality
KABUL - Last year, Afghanistan’s version of “Sesame Street” introduced a little girl character aimed at inspiring girls in the deeply conservative Muslim nation. Now a new muppet is ...
Jul 15, 2017
Trump's no 'dying in the streets' pledge faces reality check
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has often said he doesn’t want people “dying in the streets” for lack of health care. But in the United States, where chronic conditions are the m...
Jul 15, 2017
Egypt knife attacker first sat, spoke with 2 German victims
HURGHADA, Egypt - The Egyptian university graduate who stabbed two German women to death at a popular Red Sea resort first sat and spoke to them in fluent German before producing a large kitchen knife...
Jul 15, 2017
The New York Times asks court to toss Sarah Palin lawsuit
NEW YORK - The New York Times has asked a judge to toss out a defamation lawsuit former Alaska governor Sarah Palin filed against it, saying there was not actual malice in a recent editorial it quickl...
Jul 15, 2017
Authorities: Hospital lab break-in prompts hazmat response
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Connecticut authorities say a person possibly seeking to steal an air conditioner broke into a hospital’s nuclear medicine lab, triggering a hazmat response to a possible spil...
Jul 15, 2017
Cousins' lives escalate from petty crimes to alleged murder
PHILADELPHIA - The cousins started small - break-ins, jewelry heists and traffic violations - but on Friday they were charged in a grisly crime spree that ended with police unearthing the bodies of fo...
Jul 15, 2017
Debate over use of jumbo bomber as wildfires rage in West
BOISE, Idaho - A giant aircraft that can fly high above oceans on intercontinental flights instead jets in low and slow over a flaming forest, trailing a long plume that settles on the ground and crea...
Jul 15, 2017
Self-fueling boat sets off from Paris on 6-year world trip
PARIS - A boat that fuels itself is setting off around the world from Paris on a six-year journey that its designers hope will serves as a model for emissions-free energy networks of the future. Energ...
Jul 15, 2017
Tuskegee Syphilis Study descendants to seek settlement money
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Descendants of hundreds of black men who were left untreated for syphilis during an infamous government study want a judge to give them any money remaining from a $9 million legal s...
Jul 15, 2017