Category Archives: World
Mistrial in S. Carolina police shooting mystifies observers
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The video was unambiguous: A white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black man in the back as the man ran away. But a South Carolina jury was unable to agree on a verdict in one ...
Dec 06, 2016
Ugandan rebel charged with 70 counts, including murder, rape
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - An alleged senior commander in the brutal militia of fugitive warlord Joseph Kony pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 70 charges including murder, rape, sexual enslavement and using...
Dec 06, 2016
Hacker gets 5 years in prison for stealing scripts, videos
NEW YORK - A Bahamian man who boasted after his arrest for hacking into celebrities’ email accounts that he will someday write a book to “shake up Hollywood” had the book thrown at h...
Dec 06, 2016
NATO, EU make show of unity amid uncertainty posed by Trump
BRUSSELS - NATO and the European Union made a public show of unity Tuesday in the face of criticism from Donald Trump, hailing their deepening co-operation as the U.S. president-elect insists European...
Dec 06, 2016
Hollywood stars join Oxfam to draw attention to refugees
BOSTON - Minnie Driver, John Cho and Oliver Platt are among 15 Hollywood stars participating in a new Oxfam America program intended to motivate people to help refugees. The “I Hear You” c...
Dec 06, 2016
Pence to talk to conservative group at Trump's new DC hotel
NEW YORK - Vice-President-elect Mike Pence is delivering a speech to a conservative group at Donald Trump’s new hotel in Washington D.C. The Heritage Foundation says Pence will talk Tuesday nigh...
Dec 06, 2016
Architect's plan would cover Trump's name with pig balloons
CHICAGO - An architect wants to install four giant pig balloons to cover up the Trump name on the side of the president-elect’s Chicago hotel. New World Design says installation of the gold-colo...
Dec 06, 2016
Chopper crash in Rio flashpoint with police in 'City of God'
RIO DE JANEIRO - Viviane Goncalves cries softly as she explains why she believes her husband was killed. The 32-year-old widow says she thinks military police shot him in revenge after one of their he...
Dec 06, 2016
Granger Smith back in Texas after stage fall in New Jersey
SAYREVILLE, N.J. - Country music artist Granger Smith is back in Texas after he was hospitalized for injuries sustained when he fell off a stage in New Jersey. Smith posted Tuesday on Twitter that he&...
Dec 06, 2016
Justices uphold Katrina fraud verdict against State Farm
WASHINGTON - A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a jury verdict that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. committed fraud against the federal government after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. The j...
Dec 06, 2016