Category Archives: World
South Korean court holds hearing on impeached president
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea’s constitutional Court on Thursday held its first preparatory hearing in the trial of impeached President Park Geun-hye, whom lawmakers voted to remove ov...
Dec 22, 2016
Pope in Christmas speech blasts Vatican resistance to reform
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Thursday denounced the resistance he’s encountering in reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, saying some of it is inspired by the devil and that the prelates who work...
Dec 22, 2016
Japan, US mark the return of military-used land to Okinawa
TOKYO - Japan and the U.S. marked a partial return of the land used by American troops to Okinawa in a ceremony Thursday on the southern island, but there was no sign the move was helping to lessen pr...
Dec 22, 2016
North Carolina fails to repeal LGBT law as culture wars rage
RALEIGH, N.C. - Repealing North Carolina’s law limiting LGBT protections at the close of a bitter election year was supposed to heal blows to the economy and perhaps open a truce in the culture ...
Dec 22, 2016
China says it will co-operate with Trump but warns on Taiwan
BEIJING - China has warned that ties with the U.S. will likely see new complications and the only way to maintain a stable relationship is by respecting each other’s “core interests.”...
Dec 22, 2016
US-based cleric rejects links to Russian envoy's killing
MOSCOW - A U.S.-based Muslim cleric on Thursday condemned the killing of Russia’s envoy to Turkey and rejected accusations that his movement was behind the attack. Ambassador Andrei Karlov was s...
Dec 22, 2016
Arrest of black man in black church fire stirs debates
JACKSON, Miss. - The arrest of a black man on a charge of burning a black Mississippi church that was spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump” has sparked bickering online and consternati...
Dec 22, 2016
Senegalese man found guilty in murder of US woman in Italy
FLORENCE, Italy - An Italian court on Thursday convicted a Senegalese man of murdering an American woman in her flat after they met at a nightclub, and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. Ashley Olse...
Dec 22, 2016
Cancer-stricken 'Jeopardy!' player wins $103K before death
LOS ANGELES - A woman who died of cancer just days before her appearance on “Jeopardy!” aired won six contests in a row and more than $103,000, some of which she donated to cancer research...
Dec 22, 2016
Seeing Berlin attacked, Nice relives truck rampage horror
NICE, France - The nightmares returned to Catherine Cocampo this week - visions of a truck careening through crowds, leaving a trail of corpses behind it. Residents of the French Riviera city of Nice ...
Dec 22, 2016