Category Archives: World
Secret Service settles racial discrimination lawsuit
WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in promotion practices by the agency that protects t...
Jan 18, 2017
Power shortages leave Gaza in the dark
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - At night, large swaths of the Gaza Strip plunge into darkness - the result of chronic and worsening power outages. In crowded city streets, the only source of light comes...
Jan 18, 2017
Colombia ELN rebels agree to free captive, start peace talks
BOGOTA - Colombia’s second-largest rebel group has agreed to free a prominent politician held captive for almost a year, clearing the way for repeatedly postponed peace talks to begin next month...
Jan 18, 2017
Asian shares mixed, Japan's Nikkei gains on weaker yen
TOKYO - Shares were meandering in sluggish trading in Asia on Thursday as investors awaited the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. Japan’s benchmark rose after the dollar slipped against...
Jan 18, 2017
Tower of Power band members recovering after train accident
OAKLAND, Calif. - Authorities say two musicians with the band Tower of Power remain hospitalized after being hit last week by an Amtrak train in Oakland. The East Bay Times reports (http://bayareane.w...
Jan 18, 2017
Mexico youth shoots teacher, classmates, then kills himself
MONTERREY, Mexico - A 15-year-old student opened fire with a gun at a private school in this northern Mexico city Wednesday, hitting a teacher and two other students in the head before killing himself...
Jan 18, 2017
US homebuilder confidence, sales outlook slip in January
U.S. homebuilders are feeling slightly less confident this month about their sales prospects, a pullback from December when builders’ confidence reached the highest level in 11 years. The declin...
Jan 18, 2017
Final Ringling Bros. show at Nassau Coliseum sells out
UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Officials with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey say the iconic travelling circus’ final show at the newly renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island is so...
Jan 18, 2017
Markets Right Now: Stocks end little changed on Wall Street
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. Stocks ended little changed as a stretch of listless trading continues. Bond yields and the dollar resumed their...
Jan 18, 2017
Death toll in Mali suicide blast rises to at least 60
GAO, Mali - A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle penetrated a camp in northern Mali on Wednesday, killing at least 60 people and wounding 115 soldiers and former fighters who are trying to ...
Jan 18, 2017