Bulgaria detains 4 soccer fans after racist acts
SOFIA – The Bulgarian government says it
has detained four soccer fans linked to making racist gestures, including Nazi
salutes, during a European Championship qualifying match...
Japan typhoon death toll climbs to 74
TOKYO – Rescue workers in Japan searched
for the missing on Wednesday as the death toll from one of the worst typhoons
to hit the country...
Kenya opens Chinese-built railway line
NAIROBI – Kenya’s President Uhuru
Kenyatta is due to open a new $1.5 billion Chinese rail line on Wednesday
linking the capital Nairobi to the Rift...
Mexican ambush kills over a dozen police
MEXICO City – Suspected cartel hitmen
shot dead over a dozen police in an ambush in the western Mexican state of
Michoacan, authorities said.
The federal...
Nigerian police rescue 67 from Islamic ‘school’
MAIDUGUIRI – Police in northern
Nigeria rescued nearly 70 men and boys from a second purported Islamic school
where they were shackled and subjected to “inhuman...
Clashes erupt as Spanish court jails Catalonia leaders
SPAIN – Protests erupted in Barcelona
after the country’s Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders
between nine to 13 years in prison.
Large crowds of...
HK gears up for ‘another protest’
HONG KONG – Pro-democracy activists
plan a rally after another weekend of unrest in this Chinese-ruled city.
Activists said they planned to gather
at the Chater...
Japan rescuers search for typhoon survivors
NAGANO – Rescue workers waded through
muddy, waist-high waters on Monday searching for missing people after one of
the worst typhoons to hit Japan in recent...
US to pull last troops from northern Syria
WASHINGTON – The United States (US)
said on Sunday it will withdraw its remaining 1,000 troops from northern Syria
in the face of an expanding Turkish...
California bans sale, manufacture of fur products
WASHINGTON – California has become the
first state in the United States to ban the manufacture and sale of animal
fur.
Residents will no longer be...