CHARLESTON, S.C. Relatives of Walter Scott, the black motorist fatally shot while fleeing a traffic stop, say they are confident justice will prevail even though a South Carolina jury could not reach a verdict in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged in his death. Circuit Judge Clifton Newman on Monday declared […]

TOKYO An American president in Hiroshima. A Japanese prime minister at Pearl Harbor. One longtime taboo has already fallen this year, and the other soon will. On Dec. 27, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the Hawaiian U.S. naval base attacked by Japan in 1941. He will be joined by President Barack Obama, who seven […]

YEKATERINBURG, Russia Increasingly, the young men of Russia say they see military service as an opportunity, not a dreaded obligation to avoid. The Associated Press recently visited Russia’s newest military recruitment center in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, and talked with several men who plan to turn their one-year mandatory military service into a longer-term job. […]

HAVANA Music is playing in the streets again. Tourists are sipping mojitos at sidewalk cafes. Flags are flapping at full staff. After nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro, Cuba is slowly returning to noisy, boisterous normality. Cuba is a country where sidewalks serve as living rooms and social clubs, but during the mourning […]

BRUSSELS Britain will have less than 18 months to negotiate its exit from the European Union once talks begin and won’t be allowed to pick and choose what it likes, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator said today as he outlined his stance for the first time. Michel Barnier said formal procedures like parliamentary approvals across […]

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey Turkish authorities have forcibly evicted tens of thousands of people in security operations in a predominantly Kurdish district of southeastern Turkey, a human rights group said today. Amnesty International said in a new report that authorities have prevented their return by expropriating and demolishing homes in a policy that may amount to collective […]

BRUNSWICK — On Thursday at 1 p.m., the People Plus Center will host Phil Black of the Veterans Benefits Administration at Togus, who will present VA Compensation/Pension/Survivor Benefits 101 as part of the People Plus monthly FYI! series. The event is free and open to the public. People Plus is located at 35 Union St., […]