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World News Jun 25 to Jul 1, 2017

Shooting gang-related

Shooting gang-related

Little Rock Jul 1, 2017 / 8:09 pm

Clubgoers screamed and scrambled for cover as dozens of gunshots rang out during a rap concert in downtown Little Rock early Saturday, leaving 28 people injured...

Obama pushes tolerance

Obama pushes tolerance

Jakarta Jul 1, 2017 / 6:49 pm

Following another week of dust-ups between the media and President Donald Trump, his predecessor shared a bit of wisdom from the other side of the world about...

25 people shot at nightclub

25 people shot at nightclub

Arkansas Jul 1, 2017 / 9:21 am

Police say 25 people were shot after gunfire rang out Saturday at a rap show at a downtown Little Rock nightclub, prompting pleas from top leaders to curb the...

Leaders bid farewell to Kohl

Leaders bid farewell to Kohl

France Jul 1, 2017 / 7:48 am

Current and past world leaders gathered Saturday to bid farewell to the late Helmut Kohl, recalling the former German chancellor as a man who was instrumental...

Bear crashes into bedroom

Bear crashes into bedroom

Alaska Jul 1, 2017 / 6:50 am

A huge crash jolted 11-year-old Zach Landis awake in his Anchorage home, but it soon became clear it wasn't a human intruder or his sisters playing a trick...

6.0 quake rocks Ecuador

6.0 quake rocks Ecuador

Ecuador Jul 1, 2017 / 6:36 am

A strong earthquake struck off Ecuador's coast Friday evening, sending people running into the streets of the country's major cities. Authorities said...

Elephant in the backyard

Elephant in the backyard

Wisconsin Jul 1, 2017 / 6:20 am

The pachyderm was a startling sight for residents of one small Wisconsin neighbourhood. A full-grown elephant sauntered through Baraboo early Friday morning on...

Hospital shooter dead

Hospital shooter dead

New York City Jun 30, 2017 / 1:25 pm

UPDATE: 1:25 p.m. A man pulled a rifle from under his white lab coat and opened fire inside a Bronx hospital Friday, killing at least one person and wounding...

Grizzly protections lifted

Grizzly protections lifted

Yellowstone Jun 30, 2017 / 12:11 pm

At least three different legal challenges were launched Friday against the U.S. government's decision to lift protections for grizzly bears in the...

Refugees returning home

Refugees returning home

Syria Jun 30, 2017 / 9:54 am

The U.N. refugee agency said Friday that nearly a half-million people who were displaced within Syria due to its civil war have returned to their homes,...

Mop-up operations in Mosul

Mop-up operations in Mosul

Iraq Jun 30, 2017 / 9:49 am

Iraqi troops were clearing up a key neighbourhood in Mosul on Friday, commanders said, a day after making significant gains against Islamic State militants in...

Puerto Rico is crumbling

Puerto Rico is crumbling

Puerto Rico Jun 30, 2017 / 9:47 am

Stained glass windows from the 16th century are broken. Porch railings from the 1700s are missing. Brick walls crumble inside the hall where Spain ceded Puerto...

'Morning Joe' hosts fire back

'Morning Joe' hosts fire back

Washington D.C. Jun 30, 2017 / 9:19 am

"Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said Friday that President Donald Trump lied about their December encounter in a tweet and...

Sarin used in deadly attack

Sarin used in deadly attack

Syria Jun 30, 2017 / 6:47 am

An investigation by the international chemical weapons watchdog confirmed that sarin nerve gas was used in a deadly April 4 attack on a Syrian town, but a...

Evacuees start going home

Evacuees start going home

Arizona Jun 30, 2017 / 6:42 am

Authorities expect to allow more evacuated residents to go home and to reopen a major route through an Arizona community that barely escaped destruction when a...

Hitler house seizure upheld

Hitler house seizure upheld

Austria Jun 30, 2017 / 6:41 am

Austria's highest court on Friday ruled the government was within its rights to seize the house where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 after its...

New travel ban takes effect

New travel ban takes effect

Washington D.C. Jun 29, 2017 / 2:05 pm

A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at...

Trump mocks TV host

Trump mocks TV host

Washington D.C. Jun 29, 2017 / 11:00 am

President Donald Trump on Thursday ridiculed the brains, looks and temperament of a female cable television host whose show he says he has stopped watching. His...

New visa rules hit Muslims

New visa rules hit Muslims

United States Jun 29, 2017 / 6:18 am

The Trump administration on Wednesday set new criteria for visa applicants from six mainly Muslim nations and all refugees that require a "close"...

Trump rakes in $10M

Trump rakes in $10M

Washington, D.C. Jun 29, 2017 / 6:13 am

President Donald Trump was whisked a few blocks from the White House to the Trump hotel on Wednesday night for his first re-election fundraiser, where he raised...

Hunt for helicopter attacker

Hunt for helicopter attacker

Venezuela Jun 29, 2017 / 6:10 am

Oscar Perez is a cop, pilot, action movie star and dog trainer. He's now also a fugitive, accused of strafing two key Venezuelan government buildings from a...

Assault on her unborn child

Assault on her unborn child

Pennsylvania Jun 29, 2017 / 6:05 am

A Pennsylvania woman who overdosed on heroin while pregnant and had to undergo a cesarean section is being charged with assault on her unborn child, authorities...

Train evac over bomb threat

Train evac over bomb threat

Poland Jun 28, 2017 / 1:29 pm

Polish media are reporting that authorities have stopped a train travelling from Warsaw to Berlin and evacuated its passengers after receiving a bomb threat....

Sons to visit Diana's grave

Sons to visit Diana's grave

England Jun 28, 2017 / 1:03 pm

Prince William, his wife, Kate, and Prince Harry will attend a private service at the late Princess Diana's grave on what would have been her 56th birthday....

Monument lasts one day

Monument lasts one day

Arkansas Jun 28, 2017 / 6:52 am

Officials say Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument was destroyed by someone driving a vehicle into it less than 24 hours after the monument was placed on...

Wind fans Utah wildfire

Wind fans Utah wildfire

United States Jun 28, 2017 / 6:47 am

Firefighters are bracing for more high winds Wednesday as they try to slow a southern Utah wildfire that has burned 13 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,500...

Cluster bombs kill 15

Cluster bombs kill 15

Syria Jun 28, 2017 / 6:44 am

A cluster bomb attack on an Islamic State-held village in eastern Syria killed at least 15 people on Wednesday, activists said, the latest in a series of...

20 years of Chinese rule

20 years of Chinese rule

Hong Kong Jun 28, 2017 / 6:30 am

Hong Kong is planning a big party as it marks 20 years under Chinese rule. But many people in the former British colony are not in the mood to celebrate....

GOP shelves health bill

GOP shelves health bill

Washington, D.C. Jun 28, 2017 / 6:27 am

Senate GOP leaders abruptly shelved their long-sought health care overhaul Tuesday, asserting they can still salvage it but raising new doubts about whether...

Cyber assault crippling

Cyber assault crippling

Paris Jun 27, 2017 / 9:46 pm

A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of...

Judge in the crosshairs

Judge in the crosshairs

Stanford Jun 27, 2017 / 8:53 pm

Activists seeking to recall a judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman say...

Helicopter attacks court

Helicopter attacks court

Venezuela Jun 27, 2017 / 8:41 pm

President Nicolas Maduro said a police helicopter fired on Venezuela's Supreme Court on Tuesday in a confusing incident that he called a thwarted...

More logging was needed

More logging was needed

Utah Jun 27, 2017 / 7:50 pm

Insisting that logging could have cleaned up dead, bug-infested trees that are fueling a Utah wildfire, a Republican state lawmaker blamed federal mismanagement...

U.S. keeping eye on Syria

U.S. keeping eye on Syria

Washington Jun 27, 2017 / 7:15 pm

The Trump administration said Tuesday it has detected "active preparations" by Syria for a chemical attack and threatened to retaliate — warning...

Utah wildfire a monster

Utah wildfire a monster

United States Jun 27, 2017 / 2:50 pm

The nation's largest wildfire has forced more than 1,500 people from their homes and cabins in a southern Utah mountain area home to a ski town and popular...

Grenfell fallout widens

Grenfell fallout widens

Germany Jun 27, 2017 / 12:13 pm

Britain's prime minister said Tuesday there must be a "major national investigation" of potentially flammable cladding on highrise towers, while a...

Queen to get a raise

Queen to get a raise

England Jun 27, 2017 / 11:07 am

Queen Elizabeth II is set to receive an increase in the official funding she receives each year. Buckingham Palace said Tuesday the "sovereign grant"...

Second landslide hits China

Second landslide hits China

China Jun 27, 2017 / 6:27 am

A second landslide struck the village in southwest China where rescue workers have been looking for nearly 100 people buried over the weekend by a massive wave...

Cosby circus moves to Cali

Cosby circus moves to Cali

California Jun 27, 2017 / 6:18 am

The stage for Bill Cosby's next legal challenge shifts to California with a hearing scheduled Tuesday to set a trial date in a lawsuit accusing him of...

Modi full of hugs for Trump

Modi full of hugs for Trump

Washington, D.C. Jun 27, 2017 / 6:14 am

President Donald Trump should have been ready as he met with India's prime minister, an unabashed hugger. Smiling widely at a news conference Monday during...

Century-old letter in mail

Century-old letter in mail

Nebraska Jun 27, 2017 / 5:55 am

A mail carrier in Lincoln, Neb., faced a difficult task earlier this month when he found a letter sent more than 100 years ago in his pile. The letter with a...

US Navy bribery scandal

US Navy bribery scandal

Virginia Jun 26, 2017 / 7:56 pm

While he was stationed in Singapore, a U.S. Navy commander ate suckling pigs worth $400 apiece, attended a Gucci fashion show with his wife and enjoyed the...

Spike in bear maulings

Spike in bear maulings

Alaska Jun 26, 2017 / 7:51 pm

Two more Alaskans were mauled by bears over the weekend, bringing the number of bear attacks in the state to four in less than a week, including two fatalities....

'Not quite warp speed'

'Not quite warp speed'

Georgia Jun 26, 2017 / 2:29 pm

Police say a motorcycle officer who stopped a driver for speeding on a suburban highway north of Atlanta had an 'extraterrestrial encounter' —...

Cdn makes palace history

Cdn makes palace history

London Jun 26, 2017 / 2:25 pm

A Canadian captain made history Monday by becoming the first female infantry officer to lead the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London....

Travel ban partly reinstated

Travel ban partly reinstated

Washington, D.C. Jun 26, 2017 / 12:28 pm

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries, a victory for...

Guilty in Baby Doe killing

Guilty in Baby Doe killing

Boston Jun 26, 2017 / 10:23 am

A man was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the death of a two-year-old girl who became known as Baby Doe after her remains washed up on the shores of...

Trump eager to meet Putin

Trump eager to meet Putin

Washington, D.C. Jun 26, 2017 / 6:57 am

President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational...

Fires rage in Utah, Calif.

Fires rage in Utah, Calif.

United States Jun 26, 2017 / 6:53 am

Better weather conditions have limited the growth of a wildfire in Utah that has prompted the evacuation of 1,500 people from hundreds of homes and cabins,...

Snowmelt forces evacuation

Snowmelt forces evacuation

California Jun 26, 2017 / 6:50 am

Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along a river in California, the result of the state's huge...

Hurricane off Mexico coast

Hurricane off Mexico coast

Mexico Jun 26, 2017 / 6:45 am

Hurricane Dora has formed in the Pacific off Mexico's southwestern coast. The hurricane's maximum sustained winds early Monday are near 80 mph (129 kph)...

Irish prop up UK Tories

Irish prop up UK Tories

England Jun 26, 2017 / 6:42 am

The leader of a Northern Ireland-based party struck a 1.5 billion pound ($1.9 billion) deal with British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives on...

What stinks in Greece?

What stinks in Greece?

Greece Jun 26, 2017 / 6:30 am

With a heat wave expected later this week, Greece's government Monday is urging striking garbage collectors to return to work after a 10-day protest has...

Deadly tour boat sinking

Deadly tour boat sinking

Colombia Jun 26, 2017 / 6:26 am

A tourist boat packed with about 160 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, leaving at least six...

Turkish cops stop Pride

Turkish cops stop Pride

Istanbul, Turkey Jun 25, 2017 / 2:00 pm

Turkish police stopped activists for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights from gathering in large numbers for an LGBT pride event in Istanbul on...

China slide, many missing

China slide, many missing

Mao County, China Jun 25, 2017 / 10:08 am

Rescuers recovered 10 bodies and were still searching for 93 missing people on Sunday, a day after a massive landslide buried a picturesque mountain village in...

Tanker blast kills over 150

Tanker blast kills over 150

Bahawalpur, Pakistan Jun 25, 2017 / 10:03 am

Alerted by an announcement over a mosque's loudspeaker that an overturned tanker truck had sprung a leak, scores of villagers raced to the scene with fuel...

Spain wildfire evacuation

Spain wildfire evacuation

Barcelona, Spain Jun 25, 2017 / 9:49 am

A forest fire in southern Spain forced the evacuation of at least 1,000 people and is threatening a national park famous for its biodiversity and endangered...

Harry 'wanted out'

Harry 'wanted out'

England Jun 25, 2017 / 9:15 am

Prince Harry says he once "wanted out" of the British royal family. In an interview published in the Mail on Sunday, the prince said the time he spent...

All tested cladding failed

All tested cladding failed

England Jun 25, 2017 / 9:03 am

Britain's government urged local officials across the country Sunday to urgently submit samples of tower block cladding after tests found that all samples...

Learning to live with terror

Learning to live with terror

Europe Jun 25, 2017 / 8:50 am

The jihadis' targets in Europe are depressingly repetitive: the Brussels metro, the Champs-Elysees in Paris (twice), tourist-filled bridges in London...

34 towers have problem

34 towers have problem

England Jun 25, 2017 / 6:42 am

Britain's fire-safety crisis expanded substantially Saturday as authorities said 34 highrise apartment blocks across the country had cladding that failed...

Human rights violations

Human rights violations

Yemen Jun 25, 2017 / 4:56 am

Yemen's internationally-recognized government on Saturday ordered the creation of a committee to investigate allegations of human rights violations,...

Cyberattack on parliament

Cyberattack on parliament

London Jun 25, 2017 / 4:55 am

British officials were investigating a cyberattack Saturday on the country's Parliament after discovering "unauthorized attempts to access...

Not a social butterfly

Not a social butterfly

Washington, D.C. Jun 25, 2017 / 4:54 am

Two weeks into her new life as a full-time Washingtonian, Melania Trump is staying true to her reputation as more homebody than social butterfly. Not that she...

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