Category Archives: World

Alex Trebek shares 'mind-boggling' pancreatic cancer update
LOS ANGELES - "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek says his doctors say he's in "near remission" of advanced pancreatic cancer and his response to the treatment is "kind of mind-boggling." The 78-year-old TV ...
May 29, 2019

Review: 'Godzilla' is back and doing just fine
It's been a bit since moviegoers had the chance to catch up with Godzilla, five years in fact, which in cinematic franchise time feels like at least a few decades. In other words, it's understandable ...
May 29, 2019

Prosecutors aim to reverse bail decision in Kodak Black case
MIAMI - Rapper Kodak Black is due back in federal court after his arrest at a Miami hip-hop festival around which several violent incidents occurred. Federal prosecutors are appealing a judge's decisi...
May 29, 2019

Trump urges Roy Moore not to run for US Senate in Alabama
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is warning that the "consequences will be devastating" if Alabama Republican Roy Moore again runs for the U.S. Senate in 2020. Moore lost in the once-reliably red s...
May 29, 2019

Romania ruling party boss gets 3 1/2 years in prison for graft
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's most powerful politician was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years in prison for official misconduct in a graft case. The jail time for Liviu Dragnea, party leader of the ruli...
May 29, 2019

Farage claims pro-Brexit momentum after divisive UK vote
LONDON - British euroskeptic Nigel Farage said Monday that his new Brexit Party's victory in the European election should spur Britain to leave the European Union even without a divorce deal - a call ...
May 29, 2019

North Korea calls Bolton 'war monger' over missile comment
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a "war monger" and "human defect" after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a v...
May 29, 2019

Baghdad court sentences fourth French IS member to death
BAGHDAD - The French former members of the Islamic State group were brought into the courtroom in Baghdad one after the other on Monday and made to sit inside a wooden cage in the middle. As they spok...
May 29, 2019

Trump in Japan: Pomp and tense circumstance
TOKYO - All the pomp and pageantry in the world couldn't paper over the tensions between President Donald Trump and Japan's Shinzo Abe on two of their most pressing issues: North Korea and trade. The ...
May 29, 2019

New auto giant? Fiat Chrysler wants to merge with Renault
PARIS - Fiat Chrysler proposed on Monday to merge with France's Renault to create the world's third-biggest automaker, worth $40 billion, and combine forces in the race to make electric and autonomous...
May 29, 2019