Category Archives: World
Markets Right Now: Dow Jones industrials breach 20,000
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 20,000 points for the first time, the latest milestone in a record...
Jan 25, 2017
What's next for the Dakota Access, Keystone XL pipelines?
BISMARCK, N.D. - President Donald Trump’s executive actions on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines are aimed at turning the much-protested pipelines into reality. Here’s a look at ...
Jan 25, 2017
Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania’s highest court is reviewing the conviction of a Pittsburgh man for making threats against police in a rap song after he was charged with drug offences. The Suprem...
Jan 25, 2017
Yazidi refugees languish in policy spat after IS attacks
AGIOS ATHANASIOS, Greece - As a member of a persecuted minority in Iraq, 24-year-old Shaker Mahie has seen his people massacred, raped and scattered across a new continent. Now, the Yazidi - whose fai...
Jan 25, 2017
Electrical tape-bikinis and sun for perfect tan lines in Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO - Electrical tape on private parts. Really? Welcome to the latest fashion fad in beauty-obsessed Rio de Janeiro, where some women are sun-baking in bikinis made of black tape in search ...
Jan 25, 2017
Conjoined twins separated after undergoing 21-hour operation
VALHALLA, N.Y. - Twin 11-month-old girls who were formerly conjoined have been separated after undergoing a marathon surgery at a suburban New York City children’s hospital. A team of more than ...
Jan 25, 2017
National Park Service staff step up campaign against Trump
WASHINGTON - The National Park Service employees’ Twitter campaign against President Donald Trump spread to other parks Wednesday with more tweets on climate change on official social media acco...
Jan 25, 2017
China faces political conflicts in moves to cut debt burden
BEIJING - Drowning in debt, metals trader Sinosteel Corp. got an unprecedented lifeline last month from the Chinese government - a multibillion-dollar debt-for-equity rescue that could be the first of...
Jan 25, 2017
Pakistan's blasphemy law worries opponents of extremism
BARAKHAO, Pakistan - Two ornate minarets pierce the evening sky and frame the emerald green dome of a shrine to Mumtaz Qadri. He was hanged for killing a politician who criticized Pakistan’s bla...
Jan 25, 2017
While Trump stresses military, Asian allies seek trade, too
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s “peace through strength” could mean more U.S. military power in Asia, reassuring allies about America’s resolve to counter China. That is,...
Jan 25, 2017