Category Archives: World

Brain freeze? Gary Johnson can't name favourite world leader
WASHINGTON - Call it a brain freeze or another “Aleppo moment,” but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign. The third-party candidate, in a television appear...
Sep 29, 2016

Clinton vows to retaliate against foreign hackers
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is vowing anew to respond to foreign hacking the same as any other attack against the United States. When she openly blamed Russia for recent U.S. cyber break-ins, Donald ...
Sep 29, 2016

Cuba rejects Trump's call for negotiations on human rights
HAVANA - A top Cuban diplomat on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s threat to undo detente with Cuba unless the single-party government meets the Republican presidential candidate’s demands...
Sep 29, 2016
US defence chief calls alliance with Philippines 'ironclad'
HANOI, Vietnam - U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter has described the U.S.-Philippines alliance as ironclad, one day after the Philippine president said joint military exercises with the U.S. would end...
Sep 29, 2016
Hurricane Matthew strengthens brushing by Caribbean islands
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - People in the Dutch Caribbean islands reinforced their homes and stocked up on emergency supplies Thursday as a strengthening Hurricane Matthew took a rare turn through the souther...
Sep 29, 2016
Obama hopeful national anthem protests spark a conversation
FORT LEE, Va. - Asked by a service member to weigh in on some NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he hoped the controversy would spark Americans to l...
Sep 29, 2016

US economy grew at 1.4 per cent rate in spring
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy expanded at a slightly faster pace in the spring than previously reported, aided by new-found strength in business construction. The Commerce Department said Thursday the...
Sep 29, 2016
Disbarred lawyer pleads guilty in kidnap once called a hoax
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney is trying to avoid a life prison sentence with a plea bargain in a kidnapping so elaborate and bizarre that police in California in...
Sep 29, 2016
Utah man may have contracted Zika from dying father's tears
SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah man who mysteriously contracted Zika from his infected father may have got it by touching his dad’s tears or sweat with his bare hands, according to new research that fou...
Sep 29, 2016

Wait, worry in Florida as polluted water goes down sinkhole
MULBERRY, Fla. - Neighbours of an unplugged sinkhole sending contaminated water and fertilizer plant waste cascading into Florida’s main drinking-water aquifer are fearful, and fuming that it to...
Sep 29, 2016