Category Archives: World
Rescuers try to find 15 still trapped by mine blast in China
BEIJING - Hundreds of rescuers were struggling Tuesday to find 15 coal miners still trapped a day after a gas explosion killed 18 of their colleagues in western China. Whether the 15 are alive was not...
Oct 31, 2016
Iraqi special forces poised on eastern edge of Mosul
BAZWAYA, Iraq - Iraqi special forces stood poised to enter Mosul in an offensive to drive out Islamic State militants after sweeping into the last village on the city’s eastern edge Monday while...
Oct 31, 2016
Fierce gun battle in Oklahoma ends with fugitive dead
OKLAHOMA CITY - A fierce gun battle with Oklahoma troopers left a homicide suspect dead and ended a weeklong manhunt for the man suspected in a string of violent crimes across the state, including the...
Oct 30, 2016
Chapman, Cubs stop Indians, cut World Series deficit to 3-2
CHICAGO - They have waited 108 years for a championship. So with this World Series on the verge of slipping away, the Chicago Cubs could not wait any longer. Manager Joe Maddon summoned closer Aroldis...
Oct 30, 2016
FBI review involves thousands of newly discovered emails
WASHINGTON - The FBI will have to sort through thousands of newly discovered emails in its renewed examination of the practices of Hillary Clinton and her aides, a U.S. official said Monday, raising q...
Oct 30, 2016
If elected, Clinton faces awkward coexistence with Comey
WASHINGTON - The relationship between James Comey and Hillary Clinton was never going to be tension-free, not when Comey’s FBI had conducted an election-year criminal investigation into the Demo...
Oct 30, 2016
Mechanical issue diverts American Airlines flight to Denver
DENVER - More than 100 people on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Toronto are safe after the plane was diverted to Denver International Airport on Sunday. Airport spokeswoman Daria Sern...
Oct 30, 2016
Iceland's centre-right seeks to govern as Pirates hail gains
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - There was no Pirate takeover, but the upstart party managed to make waves in Iceland. The country’s party leaders were beginning meetings Sunday with Iceland’s preside...
Oct 30, 2016
Police in El Salvador arrest former President Tony Saca
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Former Salvadoran President Tony Saca was arrested Saturday for alleged illicit enrichment, unlawful association and money laundering, prosecutors said. Saca, a former radi...
Oct 30, 2016
4 states to weigh tougher gun control in Nov. 8 election
The last time voters in Maine were asked about gun rights, they easily passed a constitutional amendment creating a right to own firearms that “shall never be questioned.” Three decades la...
Oct 30, 2016