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Man who shot train shaving video says he meant no harm

Man who shot train shaving video says he meant no harm

NEW YORK — The commuter who filmed another man shaving on a commuter train heading out of New York City and posted the video on social media says he never intended any harm.
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UN agency warns time running out to prevent Yemen famine

UN agency warns time running out to prevent Yemen famine

CAIRO — The U.N. food agency said Wednesday time was running out for aid groups working in Yemen to prevent a "devastating" famine in the war-torn country.
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Woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart to be released

Woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart to be released

SALT LAKE CITY — Elizabeth Smart said Tuesday that she's been assured the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted will be closely watched when she's released from prison.
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Feeling your pain: Presidents tread tricky disaster politics

Feeling your pain: Presidents tread tricky disaster politics

WASHINGTON — The politics of natural disasters can be tricky for a president.
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Fate of FEMA leader in doubt as Florence cleanup continues

Fate of FEMA leader in doubt as Florence cleanup continues

WASHINGTON — While Hurricane Florence barrelled through the Carolinas, a different type of storm was brewing within the federal disaster relief agency tasked with responding to the fallout.
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Analysis: Summit could be domestic win for S. Korean leader

Analysis: Summit could be domestic win for S. Korean leader

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The Korean leaders' surprisingly substantive summit announcement is a huge step toward a durable peace on the Korean Peninsula — and a Nobel Peace Prize for Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in.
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Philippine landslide shows poor often live in danger's path

Philippine landslide shows poor often live in danger's path

ITOGON, Philippines — They're eerie photographs, probably the final images of a few Filipino villagers standing placidly outside low-slung buildings a day before the green mountainside behind them collapsed on that spot.
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Port wine? Feta? Brexit may spell trouble for famed EU names

Port wine? Feta? Brexit may spell trouble for famed EU names

PINHAO, Portugal — The scorching late summer sun of northern Portugal is ripening the black, super-sweet grapes that will go to make what European Union rules say is the only wine in the world that can be called port.
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Report: South Sudan troops raped, killed while peace pursued

Report: South Sudan troops raped, killed while peace pursued

JUBA, South Sudan — With "staggering brutality," South Sudan government soldiers and allied militia targeted civilians by raping them, burning them alive, running them over with armoured vehicles and hanging them in trees even as the government pursu
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Palestinian schools strive to modernize classrooms

Palestinian schools strive to modernize classrooms

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory — As the teacher pointed to the large touch screen, her first-grade classroom came alive.
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