Category Archives: World
Park service making author David McCullough honorary ranger
BOSTON - Acclaimed author David McCullough can add a quirky new title to his resume: honorary park ranger. The two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner will become an honorary ranger in ...
Oct 01, 2016
Species goes extinct in Atlanta garden after rare frog dies
ATLANTA - Authorities say a rare tree frog - the last known living member of the species in captivity - has died at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://on-aj...
Oct 01, 2016
Feds say they won't evict sprawling pipeline protest camp
BISMARCK, N.D. - The sprawling encampment that’s a living protest against the four-state Dakota Access pipeline has most everything it needs to be self-sustaining - food, firewood, fresh water a...
Oct 01, 2016
Missouri woman accuses fellow Legislature candidate of rape
ST. LOUIS - A woman running for a seat in the Missouri Legislature has accused a fellow Democratic candidate of raping her. Cora Faith Walker told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2dztzc5 ) ...
Oct 01, 2016
Suspected militants kill 6 police in Egypt's restless Sinai
EL-ARISH, Egypt - Suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s turbulent Sinai Peninsula ambushed a taxi in which off-duty policemen were travelling back to their units on Saturday, killing five...
Oct 01, 2016
French police clash with protesters backing Calais migrants
CALAIS, France - French police have fired tear gas and water cannons on protesters defending migrants in the northern city of Calais as the government prepares to shut down the city’s notorious ...
Oct 01, 2016
Effort to recognize World War II spies hung up in Congress
MCLEAN, Va. - Spies don’t work for fame or acclaim. But after 75 years, the men and women who served behind the enemy lines in Nazi Germany and the Pacific theatre during World War II wouldnR...
Oct 01, 2016
Russia warns against US attack on Syrian forces
BEIRUT - Russia warned the United States Saturday against carrying out any attacks on Syrian government forces, saying it would have repercussions across the Middle East as government forces captured ...
Oct 01, 2016
Jewish-American ex-sailor, 90, recalls Cyprus internment
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Seventy years later, Murray Greenfield can still remember the anger he felt when he was locked up with hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors in a British detention camp on the Medit...
Oct 01, 2016
Floods' pain still felt 1 year later in rural South Carolina
KINGSTREE, S.C. - A world away from South Carolina’s booming coastal resorts, hundreds of homes remain unrepaired in the county hardest hit by last year’s floods. Now they’re getting...
Oct 01, 2016