Category Archives: World

Tinder matches with Spotify to add music to dating app
NEW YORK - Spotify is getting together with Tinder to allow users of the dating app to find musical matches. The streaming music service says Tinder users can now share a personal anthem on their prof...
Sep 21, 2016

Racial issues involving Somalis heightened after mall attack
MINNEAPOLIS - The day after a young Somali-American man stabbed 10 people at a central Minnesota mall, pickup trucks were spotted driving through predominantly Somali neighbourhoods, honking and wavin...
Sep 21, 2016

US grants Airbus first chance to sell airplanes to Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Airbus on Wednesday became the first airplane manufacturer to receive U.S. government permission to sell aircraft to Iran following last year’s nuclear accord, gett...
Sep 21, 2016
Migrant boat capsizes off Egypt, killing at least 42
CAIRO - A boat carrying African migrants headed to Europe capsized off the Mediterranean coast near the Egyptian city of Alexandria on Wednesday, killing at least 42 people, Egyptian authorities said....
Sep 21, 2016

Airstrike hits medics in Syria as UN moves to resume aid
BEIRUT - An airstrike in northern Syria killed four medics responding to an earlier bombing raid, a relief group said Wednesday, as the U.N. announced it would resume aid deliveries suspended after an...
Sep 21, 2016
Family, neighbours: Tulsa man was changing his life, generous
TULSA, Okla. - An unarmed black man shot dead in the middle of a street by a white Oklahoma police officer had run-ins with the law dating back to his teenage years and recently served four years in p...
Sep 21, 2016
Detective details deadly on-duty police shooting for jurors
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Prosecutors have said Albuquerque police overreacted in 2014 when they responded to a complaint about a homeless man camping in the foothills bordering the city. They blamed what t...
Sep 21, 2016
20 dead in floods, landslides on Indonesia's Java island
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 20 villagers and leaving 14 others missing, an official said Wednesday. The wor...
Sep 21, 2016
Tropical Storm Lisa holds steady in Atlantic
MIAMI - Tropical Storm Lisa continues to move slowly northwestward in the Atlantic, but poses no threat to land and is expected to weaken soon. The storm’s maximum sustained winds late Wednesday...
Sep 21, 2016
As Trump rises, Clinton struggles with traditional playbook
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - For months, Democrats argued that voters would get “serious” about the campaign once it reached the fall and would reject Donald Trump’s no-holds-barred approach...
Sep 21, 2016