Category Archives: World

US retail sales jump 0.8 pct. in sign of consumer health
WASHINGTON - American consumers ramped up their spending last month in a sign of robust health heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. Retail sales rose 0.8 per cent in October, after an upw...
Nov 15, 2016

LA addresses Trump factor; 3 cities make 2024 Olympic pitch
DOHA, Qatar - Los Angeles sought to allay concerns over Donald Trump’s election, Paris played up its glamorous venues and Budapest set itself apart as a mid-sized alternative as the three cities...
Nov 15, 2016

Evacuation of New Zealand town cut off by quake nearly over
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand military leaders said Wednesday they had almost completed the evacuation of more than 700 tourists and residents from a small coastal town, two days after a power...
Nov 15, 2016
Japan rubber-mask makers happy to face a Trump presidency
SAITAMA, Japan - While much of the world anxiously awaits what happens under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, one factory manager in Japan is all smiles. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of rubbe...
Nov 15, 2016
Obama: World leaders must heed people's economic fears
ATHENS, Greece - Drawing a broad lesson from the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that world leaders need to pay attention to people’s very real fears of economic di...
Nov 15, 2016
India struggles as millions throng banks to swap currency
NEW DELHI - India’s government said Tuesday it will use indelible ink to mark the fingers of people swapping scrapped currency notes at banks as authorities struggle to deal with the bedlam caus...
Nov 15, 2016
'Sanctuary cities' vow to protect immigrants from Trump plan
SEATTLE - Democratic mayors of major U.S. cities that have long had cool relationships with federal immigration officials say they will do all they can to protect residents from deportation, despite P...
Nov 15, 2016
Mexico weighs grim prospect of deportation wave under Trump
MEXICO CITY - Mexico is starting to seriously contemplate the possibility that millions of its migrants could be deported, and the picture is not pretty. Under proposals put forward by President-elect...
Nov 15, 2016

Amid signs of transition trouble, Trump huddles with Pence
NEW YORK - Hidden from the public in his Manhattan high-rise, Donald Trump huddled Tuesday with Vice-President-elect Mike Pence as he tried to fill out key posts in his Cabinet. But the transition tea...
Nov 15, 2016
Germany bans Islamic organization, police search 190 sites
BERLIN - The German government announced Tuesday it had banned an Islamic group, “The true religion,” which is suspected of targeting teenagers to radicalize to fight in Syria and Iraq. At...
Nov 15, 2016