Category Archives: World

US Secretary of State discusses Yemen war on Saudi trip
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi King Salman and others Sunday to discuss the war in Yemen, a visit to the kingdom that likely will be his last as America’s to...
Dec 18, 2016
Syrian media say Aleppo evacuations to resume
BEIRUT - Dozens of buses and ambulances were poised to enter east Aleppo to resume evacuating rebel fighters and civilians from the opposition’s remaining districts in the city, pro-Syrian gover...
Dec 18, 2016
Pakistani cinemas to resume screening Indian movies
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani cinema owners will resume the screening of Indian movies after a two-month self-imposed ban linked to the Kashmir conflict. Nadeem Mandliwala, a board member of the Pakistan Film...
Dec 18, 2016
The Latest: 1st Aleppo evacuees in 2 days reported
BEIRUT - The latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 1 a.m. A Syrian war monitoring group says the first convoy to evacuate civilians and fighters from eastern Aleppo in over 48 hours has a...
Dec 18, 2016

Trump action on health care could cost Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON - One of President-elect Donald Trump’s first, and defining, acts next year could come on Republican legislation to cut off taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood. Trump sent mixed si...
Dec 18, 2016
NYC 24/7: Sleepless businesses meet a need in the night
NEW YORK - Wake up New York, there’s a whole hidden city out there in the middle of the night, at your service. Even in an era when you can order just about anything you want by smartphone at 4 ...
Dec 18, 2016

Queen's new portrait features Prince Charles as guest star
LONDON - One is not amused. But the other one is. Queen Elizabeth II’s photographic portrait unveiled Sunday features a determined look ahead and perhaps the faintest whisper of a Mona Lisa smil...
Dec 18, 2016
France, Russia reach compromise as Aleppo rescue uncertain
BEIRUT - France struck a compromise Sunday with Russia on a U.N. resolution that it said would prevent “mass atrocities” in besieged areas of Aleppo, where thousands of trapped civilians a...
Dec 18, 2016

Blast kills at least 52 outside Yemen military camp
SANAA, Yemen - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military camp in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday morning, killing at least 52 soldiers, a security official said. The Islamic State...
Dec 18, 2016
Boy, 3, out shopping with grandma dies in road rage shooting
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A 3-year-old boy being taken on a shopping trip by his grandmother was killed in a road rage shooting when a driver opened fire on the grandmother’s car because he thought sh...
Dec 18, 2016