Cardinal jailed for child sexual abuse in Australia
MELBOURNE – Cardinal George Pell has been jailed for six years after being convicted of sexually abusing two boys in Australia.
The former Vatican treasurer...
Iran hunts for more ships to keep its oil flowing
DUBAI – Iran is discreetly scouring the globe for second-hand oil tankers to replace its ageing fleet and keep crucial crude exports flowing as...
Pentagon sets limits on transgender troops
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Defense Department signed a memo on Tuesday that would enforce limitations on transgender people serving in the military, a policy...
Airlines ground Boeing jet after plane crashes in Ethiopia
HEJERE — Airlines in Ethiopia, China, Indonesia and elsewhere grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner Monday after the second devastating crash of one...
Frenchman convicted to life in Jewish museum attack
BRUSSELS – French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche was sentenced to life in jail on Monday for shooting dead four people in a Jewish museum in...
Pound soars, Asian shares rally after Brexit deal changes
SHANGHAI – The pound jumped and Asian shares rallied on Tuesday after the European Commission agreed to changes in a Brexit deal ahead of...
Ailing president returns to Algeria as mass protests swirl
ALGIERS – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika flew home to Algeria on Sunday after spending two weeks in a Swiss hospital, state television said, returning to...
Australian regulator chides banks’ delays repaying wrongly charged fees
SYDNEY – Australia’s corporate watchdog rebuked the country’s biggest banks and financial services firms on Monday for delays fixing internal systems that resulted in...
New Assad statue triggers protest in Syrian revolt
AMMAN – Hundreds of Syrians in the southern city of Deraa protested on Sunday at the erection of a new statue of President Bashar...
Fourteen killed in Colombia plane crash
BOGOTA – Fourteen people were killed in a plane crash in the Colombian plains province of Meta on Saturday, the country’s civil aviation agency...