Category Archives: World

Trump, GOP paying consultant dogged by voter fraud charges
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have paid at least $1.8 million to a political operative whose roster of companies include several that have been repea...
Nov 05, 2016
Senate control in question as candidates make final pitches
WASHINGTON - Control of the Senate hung in the balance as candidates from Nevada to New Hampshire made their closing pitches to voters Saturday after a tough and costly campaign. Republicans feared th...
Nov 05, 2016
Texas officer fired for giving sandwich with feces to man
SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio police officer has been fired after an internal investigation determined he tried to give a homeless man a sandwich with feces inside it. Police Chief William McManus said ...
Nov 05, 2016

Clinton focuses on healing, Trump on emails in final hours
MANCHESTER, N.H. - With the cloud of an FBI investigation lifted, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump struck strikingly different tones as they moved into the final hours of a volatile, nearly two-years ...
Nov 05, 2016
Florence police use tear gas to quell anti-govt protesters
ROME - Hooded youths taking part in an anti-government protest in the Italian city of Florence have attacked police with cobblestones, sticks and other objects and police have responded with tear gas....
Nov 05, 2016
French soldier dies in an extremist attack in northern Mali
PARIS - A French soldier has been killed in an attack in northern Mali after a mine exploded as his armoured vehicle passed by during a supply mission, French officials said Saturday. The French Defen...
Nov 05, 2016
Human shields, barricades slow Iraqi advance into Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq - Islamic State fighters launched counterattacks Saturday against Iraqi special forces in eastern Mosul, emerging from populated areas deeper in the city to target the troops with mortars ...
Nov 05, 2016

Insurgent offensive in Aleppo kills dozens of civilians
BEIRUT - An offensive by Syrian insurgents aimed at the government-held part of the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least 74 civilians, including 25 children, an opposition monitoring group said...
Nov 05, 2016

UK's Labour Party leader says government has no Brexit plans
LONDON - The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party says Prime Minister Theresa May’s government is resisting “democratic scrutiny” of the Brexit process because it has no...
Nov 05, 2016
Report: German man loses wedding band, carrot unearths it
BERLIN - A retiree in Germany has struck gold in his garden, finding the wedding band he lost three years ago wrapped around a carrot. Germany public broadcaster WDR reports that the 82-year-old lost ...
Nov 05, 2016