Category Archives: World
Germany to host Ukraine peace summit in Berlin
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday announced her first summit in over a year with the Russian, Ukrainian and French presidents to discuss efforts toward peace in eastern Ukraine, but ...
Oct 18, 2016
Russia, Syria halt Aleppo airstrikes ahead of 8-hour lull
MOSCOW - Russian and Syrian warplanes halted their airstrikes on Syria’s besieged city of Aleppo on Tuesday in preparation for a temporary pause in the military push that Moscow has announced fo...
Oct 18, 2016
Obama praises Italian leader for 'bold' leadership
WASHINGTON - Seeking to boost a close ally, President Barack Obama threw his support Tuesday behind efforts that Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is taking to overhaul that country’s politica...
Oct 18, 2016
AP Exclusive: US ignored rising-sea warnings at radar site
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The U.S. Air Force is spending nearly $1 billion to build a radar installation that will help keep astronauts and satellites safe by tracking pieces of space junk as small as...
Oct 18, 2016
Wanda lures Hollywood to China with 40 per cent rebate offer
BEIJING - Chinese entertainment giant Wanda is offering producers a rebate of 40 per cent to promote its upcoming $8 billion movie studio in eastern China in an ambitious bid to establish the complex ...
Oct 18, 2016
2 slain California police officers remembered at memorial
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Thousands of people gathered Tuesday to remember a rookie police officer just back from maternity leave and a veteran only months away from retirement who were shot to death in ...
Oct 18, 2016
Broadway concert for Hillary Clinton draws huge stars
NEW YORK - Stars of Hollywood and Broadway - including Julia Roberts, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Hugh Jackman, Emily Blunt, Neil Patrick Harris and Helen Mirren - put on...
Oct 17, 2016
Couple finds pendant buried in Ireland 26 years ago
OLD LYME, Conn. - A Connecticut woman has retrieved half of her heart after leaving it in Ireland 26 years ago. In 1990, a 29-year-old Laurie McGrath had buried half of a golden heart necklace with tw...
Oct 17, 2016
Ecuador: We have 'temporarily restricted' Assange's internet
QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador’s government acknowledged on Tuesday that it cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s internet access at its embassy in London after the whistleblowing site publ...
Oct 17, 2016
Trump wrongly insists voter fraud is 'very, very common'
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Donald Trump is insisting voter fraud does, indeed, pose a significant threat to the integrity of the U.S. electoral system, claiming the election could be rigged “at the polli...
Oct 17, 2016