Category Archives: World
Trump's path on health care law intersects with a lawsuit
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to preserve health insurance coverage even as he pursues repeal of the Obama-era overhaul that provided it to millions of uninsured people. How ...
Nov 16, 2016
Clean getaway: Police seek Pennsylvania detergent thief
HERSHEY, Pa. - The Pennsylvania State Police are hoping to prevent a detergent thief from making a clean getaway. Troopers say an unidentified man loaded up his shopping cart with more than a dozen 15...
Nov 16, 2016
South Africans protest against racism in coffin assault case
MIDDELBURG, South Africa - Two white South Africans accused of forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to set him on fire appeared before a judge on Wednesday as demonstrators protested agai...
Nov 16, 2016
China ex-vice mayor wanted for corruption returns from US
BEIJING - A former vice mayor and China’s most-wanted fugitive accused of corruption was arrested after returning from the U.S. on Wednesday in the latest success for President Xi Jinping’...
Nov 16, 2016
Prince William: We're still step behind wildlife traffickers
HANOI, Vietnam - Britain’s Prince William praised Vietnam, China and other Asian countries for taking unprecedented steps to battle wildlife trafficking but said Thursday the truth is that rhino...
Nov 16, 2016
China bans 'fatty' Kim Jong Un nickname on websites
BEIJING - Chinese websites are censoring “Kim Fatty the Third,” a nickname widely used to disparage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after officials from his country reportedly conveyed th...
Nov 16, 2016
Thousands of kids dying in northeast Nigeria, says survey
LAGOS, Nigeria - Thousands of children have died of starvation and disease in Boko Haram-ravaged northeastern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday quoting a new survey that is forcing Nigeria...
Nov 16, 2016
Trump's lobbyist ban complicates administration hiring
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington might make it difficult for him to fill all the jobs in his administration. Trump̵...
Nov 16, 2016
Trump: No transition turmoil, efforts going 'so smoothly'
NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump and his team on Wednesday vigorously rejected charges of turmoil and infighting roiling efforts to set up his White House, national security and economic teams....
Nov 16, 2016
Obama urges nations not to give in to isolationist impulses
ATHENS, Greece - Standing in democracy’s birthplace, President Barack Obama on Wednesday issued a parting plea to world leaders not to let the fear of globalization tugging at Europe and the U.S...
Nov 16, 2016