Category Archives: World
Asian markets lower amid Brexit worries
BEIJING - Asian stocks declined Tuesday after Britain said Prime Minister Theresa May will announce London’s plans to withdraw completely from the European Union. KEEPING SCORE: Tokyo’s Ni...
Jan 16, 2017
GM to add or keep 7,000 jobs, make $1B factory investment
DETROIT - General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in U.S. factories and add thousands of new white-collar jobs, measures that have been in the works for years but announced Tuesday after criticism f...
Jan 16, 2017
Teen slain in 'rape-murder fantasy' was friend to the lonely
GLENSIDE, Pa. - The smiles radiate from photos posted online by friends: Grace Packer sporting an impish grin as a toddler, floating happily in a pool as a young teen, leaning in to talk to a friend a...
Jan 16, 2017
Zebra found dead, skinned near California's Hearst Castle
SAN SIMEON, Calif. - A zebra from a herd that roams the ranch around Hearst Castle was found dead and partly skinned on a beach on California’s central coast, authorities said. The zebra died of...
Jan 16, 2017
King Day highlights transition from Obama to Trump
ATLANTA - As Americans celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leaders and activists are trying to reconcile the transition from the nation’s first black president to a pres...
Jan 16, 2017
UK's May signals EU clean break: no 'half-in, half-out'
LONDON - Britain will make a clean break from the European Union and not seek to remain “half-in, half-out,” Prime Minister Theresa May will say Tuesday, disappointing businesses and voter...
Jan 16, 2017
88 million tons a year: Auditors decry EU food waste
BRUSSELS - The sheer waste of food had been bothering teacher Marijke De Jongh for so long that two years ago she set up a pop-up restaurant to serve perfectly good groceries and meat that were approa...
Jan 16, 2017
Colombia arrests ex-presidential candidate's bodyguard
BOGOTA - Authorities on Monday arrested the former bodyguard of a Colombian presidential candidate shot to death on a crowded airliner more than two decades ago, charging the policemen with being part...
Jan 16, 2017
UN chief: Consider sanctions on those thwarting Mali peace
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging the U.N. Security Council to consider imposing sanctions on key players in Mali who are obstructing implementation of a 2015 peace agreement if there are n...
Jan 16, 2017
US, Cuban Interior Ministry sign law-enforcement deal
HAVANA - The Obama administration and Cuba’s Interior Ministry have agreed to share information on international criminal activity such as terrorism, human trafficking and money laundering despi...
Jan 16, 2017