Category Archives: World
French prosecutor says 4 friends plotted imminent attack
PARIS - Four long-time friends in their 30s, living in the same French city and communicating through a closed phone line, were planning a terror attack in France as early as next week on orders from ...
Nov 25, 2016
EU gets tough: Bloc tells UK Brexit is lose-lose situation
LONDON - Since Britain voted to leave the European Union, U.K. officials have had one message: Brexit means Brexit. Now they have EU leaders’ reply: And it’s going to hurt. The prime minis...
Nov 25, 2016
Nude students, Filipino activists protest dictator's burial
MANILA, Philippines - Thousands of Filipinos, including more than a dozen nude students, protested against the hasty burial of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes’ cemetery, in a gr...
Nov 25, 2016
Florence Henderson, "The Brady Bunch" mom, dies
LOS ANGELES - Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America’s most beloved television moms in “The Brady Bunch,” has died, her manager and her publicist sa...
Nov 25, 2016
Hundreds more flights cancelled on day 3 of Lufthansa strike
BERLIN - Germany’s largest airline, Lufthansa, cancelled 830 short- and medium-haul flights on Friday affecting 100,000 passengers after a pilots’ strike entered its third day in a long-ru...
Nov 25, 2016
Turkish leader threatens to open migrant floodgate to Europe
BRUSSELS - Turkey threatened Friday to open the migrant floodgates if the European Union halts its membership talks, as criticism grows of Ankara’s heavy-handed response to a failed military cou...
Nov 25, 2016
With recounts looming, Trump adds new administration picks
MADISON, Wis. - President-elect Donald Trump pressed forward Friday with two more administration picks, as failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein took new steps to force recounts across key Midwester...
Nov 25, 2016
Iran: Death toll in train collision rises to 43
TEHRAN, Iran - A train collision in northern Iran killed at least 43 people and injured 100 on Friday, Iran’s state media reported. The official IRNA news agency quoted Mostafa Mortazavi, a spok...
Nov 25, 2016
Haifa fire overcome but others rage elsewhere in Israel
JERUSALEM - Israeli firefighters on Friday reined in a blaze that had spread across the country’s third-largest city of Haifa and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, but cont...
Nov 25, 2016
'The Brady Bunch' matriarch Florence Henderson dies at 82
LOS ANGELES - Florence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America’s most beloved television moms in “The Brady Bunch,” has died. She was 82. Henderson died at Ce...
Nov 24, 2016