Category Archives: World

Amid budget woes, Kansas weighs changing monthly tax reports
TOPEKA, Kan. - Cash-strapped Kansas would drop monthly reporting on the state’s finances that has created political problems for Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s allies under a proposal out...
Oct 04, 2016
Toys R Us sells FAO Schwarz brand to ThreeSixty Group
NEW YORK - Toys R Us has sold its FAO Schwarz brand to ThreeSixty Group, a company that designs and sells toys, home goods and other products. FAO Schwarz, founded in 1862, was known for its New York ...
Oct 04, 2016

US probes complaints of more F-150 brake failures
DETROIT - U.S. safety regulators are investigating whether a recall of Ford F-150 pickup trucks for brake failures should be expanded to more model years. The probe covers about 282,000 pickups with 3...
Oct 04, 2016
Millions leaving government insurance money on the table?
Millions of Americans who bought individual health insurance outside the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges may be leaving money on the table if they skip those marketplaces again in picking...
Oct 04, 2016

A child's scraped knee a life or death matter in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela - It was just a scraped knee. So 3-year-old Ashley Pacheco’s parents did what parents do: They gave her a hug, cleaned the wound twice with rubbing alcohol and thought no more...
Oct 04, 2016

German prosecutors drop probe of comedian over Erdogan poem
BERLIN - German prosecutors on Tuesday dropped an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, citing insufficient evidence that he committed any cr...
Oct 04, 2016

Taliban press attack on Afghan city; 12 police die in south
KABUL - Fierce gunbattles raged for a second day on Tuesday in Afghanistan’s embattled northern city of Kunduz while in the country’s south, insurgents killed 12 policemen at checkpoints a...
Oct 04, 2016
Kerry says US not abandoning peace efforts in Syria
BRUSSELS - The United States won’t abandon its pursuit of peace in Syria after suspending direct U.S.-Russian talks on a cease-fire, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, even as he a...
Oct 04, 2016
Russia wants new UN resolution to ban extremist propaganda
Russia is pressing for a new U.N. resolution that would prohibit and counter “terrorist propaganda” used by extremist groups to recruit young people around the world. Russia’s U.N. A...
Oct 04, 2016
UN Security Council discusses new Syria resolution
The U.N. Security Council began negotiations Monday on a draft resolution seeking an immediate truce in Aleppo and calling for an end to all military flights over the Syrian city, where over a quarter...
Oct 04, 2016