Category Archives: World
EPA seeks to scuttle cleanup of coal power plant pollution
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is once again seeking to scuttle cuts to pollution from coal-fired power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court in W...
Apr 18, 2017
Prosecutors move to toss more than 21,000 tainted drug cases
BOSTON - Prosecutors moved to throw out more than 21,000 drug convictions on Tuesday, five years after a chemist at the state drug lab was caught tampering with evidence and falsifying tests. The stat...
Apr 18, 2017
Trump administration says Iran complying with nuclear deal
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has notified Congress that Iran is complying with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by former President Barack Obama, and says the U.S. has extended t...
Apr 18, 2017
US VP Pence warns North Korea: 'The sword stands ready'
YOKOSUKA, Japan - From the wind-swept deck of a massive aircraft carrier, Vice-President Mike Pence on Wednesday warned North Korea not to test the resolve of the U.S. military, promising it would mak...
Apr 18, 2017
2 sentenced to prison for St. Louis armoured car heist
ST. LOUIS - Two men were sentenced Tuesday to nearly 12 years in federal prison for their involvement in an armoured car robbery that was among the biggest heists ever in St. Louis. U.S. District Judg...
Apr 18, 2017
UN says 16 staff members freed by South Sudan refugees
KINSHASA, Congo - The United Nations said late Tuesday that 16 staff members taken hostage by unarmed South Sudanese refugees at a U.N. camp in eastern Congo have been released unharmed. The U.N. peac...
Apr 18, 2017
Islamic State claims attack on Egypt police checkpoint
CAIRO - The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint near the famed Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai late Tuesday which authori...
Apr 18, 2017
Oklahoma deputy dies after shooting; suspect arrested
MULHALL, Okla. - An Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy died Tuesday after being shot while serving an eviction notice, authorities said, and a suspect was later arrested after a manhunt. The Logan County...
Apr 18, 2017
Man gets 25 years in 1979 case of missing boy Etan Patz
NEW YORK - Almost four decades after first-grader Etan Patz set out for school and ended up at the heart of one of America’s most influential missing-child cases, a former store clerk convicted ...
Apr 18, 2017
Fresno shooter wanted to kill many white people, police say
FRESNO, Calif. - A man wanted in the slaying of a security guard set out to kill as many white people as he could on Tuesday, gunning down three men on the streets of downtown Fresno before he was cap...
Apr 18, 2017