Category Archives: World
Greece: 4 dead, 1 hurt in army helicopter crash
THESSALONIKI, Greece - Military officials in Greece say four army officers have been killed and one injured in the crash of a border patrol helicopter in northern Greece. The incident occurred Wednesd...
Apr 19, 2017
Cargo ship with 12 crew capsizes in Black Sea
MOSCOW - A cargo ship carrying grain from southern Russia to Turkey capsized Wednesday during a storm in the Black Sea and one of the 12 crew members on board has been rescued, Russian emergency servi...
Apr 19, 2017
Divisions abound 22 years after Oklahoma City bombing
OKLAHOMA CITY - Remembering the Oklahoma City bombing has taken on a new meaning for Brian Martinez in the era of Donald Trump. His father, a pastor, was among the 168 people killed in the explosion a...
Apr 19, 2017
Arkansas suffers 2 setbacks to multiple execution plan
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas suffered two more setbacks in its unprecedented bid to carry out eight executions this month with the state’s highest court granting a reprieve to an inmate schedule...
Apr 19, 2017
New Zealand toughens requirements for skilled immigrants
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand announced Wednesday that it is introducing tougher requirements for skilled overseas workers as it tries to control immigration numbers that have reached an all-t...
Apr 19, 2017
Nationalist leader Petry won't head German election campaign
BERLIN - Germany’s best-known nationalist politician said Wednesday that she won’t be her party’s top candidate in the September general election, a decision that appears to reflect ...
Apr 19, 2017
Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez hangs himself in his prison cell
BOSTON - Hours before his former New England Patriots teammates were due to visit the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl victory, prison officials say, Aaron Hernandez tied one end of his bedsh...
Apr 19, 2017
44 dead as bus falls into gorge in northern India
NEW DELHI - Forty-four people were killed after a bus swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep gorge in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh state Wednesday, a senior government official...
Apr 19, 2017
Back to the ballot box: UK lawmakers approve June 8 election
LONDON - British voters will be heading to polling stations for the third time since 2015, after lawmakers overwhelmingly backed Prime Minister Theresa May’s call for a snap election on June 8. ...
Apr 19, 2017
UK police name suspect in east London nightclub acid attack
LONDON - Police investigating an acid attack at a London nightclub that left 20 people injured are searching for the boyfriend of a reality TV performer who has urged him to turn himself in. London po...
Apr 19, 2017