Category Archives: World
Black lawmakers say Sessions unfit to be attorney general
WASHINGTON - Black lawmakers said Wednesday that Sen. Jeff Sessions at times has shown hostility toward civil rights, making him unfit to be attorney general, as a 1986 letter from the widow of Martin...
Jan 11, 2017
US military: November fight with Taliban killed 33 civilians
KABUL - The U.S. military in Afghanistan said on Thursday that its investigation into a November firefight with the Taliban in northern Kunduz province has shown that 33 civilians died in the raid dur...
Jan 11, 2017
Myanmar activists say thousands flee airstrikes, fighting
YANGON, Myanmar - More than 3,000 people have fled airstrikes and heavy fighting in northern Myanmar since the weekend as the government tries to flush out rebel positions, activists said Wednesday. T...
Jan 11, 2017
Turkey arrests 60 businessmen for alleged Gulen ties
ISTANBUL - A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered 60 businessmen formally arrested pending trial over their suspected ties to the movement allegedly responsible for the failed coup in July, the state-ru...
Jan 11, 2017
Top Iraqi commander: Mosul could be liberated in 3 months
IRBIL, Iraq - A top Iraqi commander told The Associated Press that the operation to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group could be complete in three months or less. “It’s p...
Jan 11, 2017
State TV: Prisoner on leave kills 5 in a rampage in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian state television is reporting that a prisoner on leave has gunned down five people in a rampage in the central Iranian city of Arak. The report says four others were injured in ...
Jan 11, 2017
Kurdish militants claim car bomb attack in Turkey's Izmir
ISTANBUL - Kurdish militants have claimed responsibility for last week’s car bombing attack that killed a policeman and a courthouse employee in western Turkey. The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, or...
Jan 11, 2017
Nepal fires chief of earthquake reconstruction agency
KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s government on Wednesday fired the chief of the agency assigned to rebuild the nearly 1 million homes and other structures damaged in a devastating 2015 earthquake, off...
Jan 11, 2017
In Central African Republic, 'impunity on staggering scale'
JOHANNESBURG - The lack of justice in Central African Republic is so acute that some victims are forced to live daily lives alongside their aggressors, Amnesty International said Wednesday, and it urg...
Jan 11, 2017
Norwegian mass murderer says prison isolation 'damaged' him
SKIEN, Norway - Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik told a panel of judges Thursday that his solitary confinement in prison had deeply damaged him and made him even more radical in his neo-...
Jan 11, 2017