Category Archives: World
Trump claims astounding victory as America's 45th president
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump claimed his place Wednesday as America’s 45th president, an astonishing victory for the celebrity businessman and political novice who capitalized on voters’ econ...
Nov 08, 2016
Court says dictator Marcos can be buried at heroes' cemetery
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines’ Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos can be buried at a heroes’ cemetery, a decision that opponents said rolled back t...
Nov 08, 2016
White elephants, mahouts pay respects to late Thai king
BANGKOK - While tens of thousands of mourners have paid their respects to Thailand’s late king at Bangkok’s Grand Palace, where his body is being kept before cremation, a different kind of...
Nov 08, 2016
Report of different Samsung phone model exploding
PARIS - A Samsung phone user in France says her Galaxy J5 smartphone caught fire and exploded on Sunday. The model is different from the Galaxy Note 7 that has been recalled worldwide. Lamya Bouyirdan...
Nov 07, 2016
China's October exports fall in new sign of global weakness
BEIJING - China’s exports fell again in October in a fresh sign that weak global demand is complicating efforts by Beijing leaders to shore up economic growth and reduce reliance on trade and in...
Nov 07, 2016
Chance the Rapper leads concert crowd to Chicago voting site
CHICAGO - Chance the Rapper has led hundreds of people from a concert he headlined through Chicago’s business district and to an early voting site. Chance and other entertainers performed Monday...
Nov 07, 2016
Famous pool-cue maker sentenced in attempted ivory smuggling
LOS ANGELES - A famous custom pool-cue maker has been sentenced to two years of probation for his role in trying to help export protected African elephant ivory to Taiwan. Seventy-five-year-old Cesar ...
Nov 07, 2016
Parts of street collapse in southern Japan city; no injuries
TOKYO - Parts of a main street collapsed in the heart of a major city in southern Japan on Tuesday, creating a massive sinkhole and cutting off power, water and gas supplies to parts of the city. Auth...
Nov 07, 2016
Australia expects to resettle hundreds of refugees elsewhere
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia will find another country to resettle hundreds of asylum seekers now held on poor Pacific islands, a minister said Tuesday as his government planned to banish for life ...
Nov 07, 2016
As campaign closes, the Obamas pass the torch to Clinton
PHILADELPHIA - In the place where America’s democracy took root, with tens of thousands shivering in the cold, Barack and Michelle Obama passed the torch Monday to Hillary Clinton in an emotiona...
Nov 07, 2016