Category Archives: World
911 call in road-rage case: 'This little kid's been shot'
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Newly released 911 recordings depict a frantic, chaotic scene as a grandmother pulls into a Little Rock shopping centre and discovers her 3-year-old grandson has been shot in what ...
Dec 20, 2016
4 Jordanian police killed in clash with gunmen during raid
AMMAN, Jordan - Four policemen were killed Tuesday in an exchange of fire with wanted men in a central Jordanian province where assailants had killed 10 people in a series of ambushes earlier this wee...
Dec 20, 2016
Germany had monitored Berlin truck attack suspect for months
BERLIN - German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin - and even kept him under covert sur...
Dec 20, 2016
Iraq removes some of Baghdad's checkpoints to ease traffic
BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities have started removing some of the security checkpoints in Baghdad in a bid to ease traffic in the country’s capital with a population of about 6 million people, a sen...
Dec 20, 2016
Smog chokes Chinese cities, grounding flights, closing roads
BEIJING - Thick, grey smog fell over Beijing on Tuesday, choking China’s capital in a haze that spurred authorities to cancel flights and close some highways in emergency measures to cut down on...
Dec 20, 2016
Sri Lankans rush to build towering Christmas tree on time
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The goal has been to erect the world’s tallest artificial Christmas tree, but Sri Lankan organizers now say they’ll be lucky to get the tree up in time for the holiday...
Dec 20, 2016
Russia, Iran, Turkey cast themselves as deal-makers in Syria
MOSCOW - Russia, Turkey and Iran cast themselves as the essential deal-makers in Syria on Tuesday, saying at a trilateral meeting in Moscow that their co-operation could pave the way for a future sett...
Dec 20, 2016
Revolt fizzles as Trump easily wins Electoral College vote
WASHINGTON - So much for an Electoral College revolt. Despite weeks of lobbying and a day of protests, President-elect Donald Trump won all but two of the Electoral College votes he claimed on Electio...
Dec 20, 2016
China returns US underwater drone seized in South China Sea
BEIJING - China on Tuesday handed back to the United States an underwater drone it had seized last week in an incident that raised tensions in a relationship that has been tested by President-elect Do...
Dec 20, 2016
Emergency managers charged over Flint's lead-tainted water
FLINT, Mich. - A criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water turned to former key officials at City Hall on Tuesday as Michigan’s attorney general announced charges against f...
Dec 19, 2016