Category Archives: World
Cubans line streets as Fidel Castro's ashes begin journey
HAVANA - Surrounded by white roses and drawn by a green military jeep, Fidel Castro’s ashes began a more than 500-mile (800-kilometre) journey on Wednesday across the country he ruled for nearly...
Nov 30, 2016
Trump says he's leaving businesses to avoid conflicts
NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday he will leave his business empire behind to focus on his presidency. But the prospect that he could simply shift more control to three of his...
Nov 30, 2016
As Trump claims to have saved Carrier jobs, details are hazy
WASHINGTON - In persuading Carrier to keep hundreds of jobs in Indiana, President-elect Donald Trump is claiming victory on behalf of factory workers whose positions were bound for Mexico. But the sca...
Nov 30, 2016
Amanda Seyfried expecting first child with Thomas Sadoski
NEW YORK - Amanda Seyfried is pregnant with her first child. People magazine reports the actress made the announcement and showed off her baby bump in New York on Tuesday. Seyfried was appearing at an...
Nov 30, 2016
President Obama: 'Michelle will never run for office'
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has tamped down any speculation that first lady Michelle Obama may one day run for office herself. In an interview with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner conducted t...
Nov 30, 2016
Syrians fleeing government advances in Aleppo shelled
BEIRUT - A series of artillery rounds lobbed Wednesday on Syria’s eastern Aleppo district killed 26 civilians, including seven children, as they fled a government ground offensive in the besiege...
Nov 30, 2016
Deadly storms add to drought, flood and fires plaguing South
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Five people were killed in two states after at least 13 twisters damaged homes, splintered barns and toppled trees in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, the Nat...
Nov 30, 2016
Syria: Israeli jets strike outside Damascus, no casualties
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria says Israeli jets have fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace toward the outskirts of Damascus. The official Syrian news agency, SANA, says the missiles struck the Sabboura ...
Nov 30, 2016
Trump's idea of 'presidential' diverges from past presidents
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump, that most unconventional of presidential candidates, last spring pledged that he would act perfectly presidential when the time was right. “I will be so presidential t...
Nov 30, 2016
Germany's Lufthansa in new pay offer to end pilots' strike
BERLIN - German airline Lufthansa said Wednesday it has made a modified pay offer to pilots as it seeks to put an end to a long-running dispute that’s seen a succession of strikes over recent da...
Nov 30, 2016