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Moroccan police find 5 drowned would be migrants
Morocco's state news agency says that police have rescued seven immigrants in a boat off the Mediterranean coast and found five bodies in the sea. The report late Monday said those rescued included four women, who were sent to the local hospital. The northern Moroccan city of Nador is located ...
Trial begins in international custody case
A trial was to begin Tuesday in federal court that will determine what country will decide the fate of two 13-year-old twin boys at the center of an international custody battle that extends from Eastern Europe to Middle Tennessee. The trial won't determine whether or not the boys should stay ...
Protesters rally at FirstEnergy meeting in W.Va.
At least 200 union workers picketed FirstEnergy's annual shareholder meeting in West Virginia on Tuesday, demanding the Ohio-based utility hire enough people to keep the power on without forcing an ever-shrinking labor force to work as many as 1,800 hours of overtime a year. Chuck Cookson, FirstEnergy executive director of ...
Myanmar Muslims jailed for killing Buddhist monk
A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday — one of them to a life term — in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was overwhelmingly directed against minority Muslims but has not led to any criminal trials against members of the country's Buddhist ...
Recent Missouri editorials
Southeast Missourian, May 19 Police cameras Improving technology has created endless fuel for the public-privacy debates of our time. We live in a surveillance society with the government and private sectors watching our movements. Whether it's Google or Facebook tracking our online habits for profitable reasons, or the government tracking ...
Texas parents charged after adopted son, 4, dies
A North Texas husband and wife have been charged with felony injury to a child after their 4-year-old adopted son was found dead at their home. Cleburne police arrested David and Angel Cook after an autopsy report released Monday indicated Buddy Cook's death was a homicide. The body was discovered ...
Group: More Afghan women jailed for 'moral crimes'
An international rights group says the number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months. Human Rights Watch says the increase may mean that authorities feel they no longer need to uphold gains in Afghan women's rights as international troops are ...
Raw: Japan's WWII Atrocities Under Fire in Seoul
A small but angry group of South Korean activists gathered outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Tuesday to express their anger over Japan's wartime atrocities. (May 21)
NJ ex-priest arrested after working with kids
A New Jersey priest who resigned after admitting he worked unsupervised with kids despite a legal agreement that barred him from doing so is headed to court. Michael Fugee will appear in court in Hackensack Tuesday after his arrest on charges of contempt of a judicial order. Fugee confessed to ...
Does France have right plan to revive its economy?
The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest there is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite. As the country's first-ever minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg has told the world's largest steelmaker it is not welcome in France; exchanged angry letters with the head ...
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