Category Archives: World
Reported treason arrests fuel Russian hacking intrigue
MOSCOW - In the days since it emerged that four men had been arrested on treason charges linked to cyber intelligence and Russia’s domestic security agency, conspiracy theories and speculation a...
Jan 31, 2017
Travel ban throws research, academic exchange into turmoil
BOSTON - Universities across the nation say President Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from seven Muslim countries is disrupting vital research projects and academic exchanges in such fields as ...
Jan 31, 2017
US official says 872 refugees to be allowed in
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration said 872 refugees will be allowed into the United States this week despite a presidential order suspending the U.S. refugees program. Kevin McAleenan, the acting ...
Jan 31, 2017
Kentucky man gets 5 years in death of girl found in well
GLASGOW, Ky. - A judge has sentenced a Kentucky man to five years in prison in the death of his former girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter, whose body was disposed of in a well. The Glasgow Daily T...
Jan 31, 2017
Markets Right Now: Health care stocks gain; industrials fall
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. A late afternoon pickup in health care companies erased much of an early loss on Wall Street and left major inde...
Jan 31, 2017
Slovenia's tourism booms thanks in part to Melania Trump
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - The tiny European nation of Slovenia is undergoing a tourism boom partly because it is the native country of U.S. first lady Melania Trump. The national Statistics Bureau said Tu...
Jan 31, 2017
UK pardons thousands convicted under past anti-gay laws
LONDON - Thousands of men convicted under now-abolished anti-homosexuality laws in Britain have been pardoned posthumously under a law enacted on Tuesday, and many more still alive can now apply to ha...
Jan 31, 2017
Pervasive charcoal trade getting major rethink in Haiti
MANICHE, Haiti - Pungent wood smoke wafts daily across the hinterlands of Haiti’s southern peninsula, where villagers stack smouldering wood beneath dirt mounds to make the charcoal that nearly ...
Jan 31, 2017
4 reasons N. Korea looms over US defence chief's Asia trip
TOKYO - North Korea will be casting a dark - and nuclear - shadow over U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis’ first foray abroad. When Mattis calls on South Korea and Japan from Wednesday he will be...
Jan 31, 2017
Pineapple, cheese, raisins, oil: Prison loaf varies by state
SMYRNA, Del. - Special meals prepared for prison inmates for misbehaviour related to food or bodily waste go by a variety of names, including nutraloaf, alternative meal plan, and behaviour modified m...
Jan 31, 2017