Category Archives: World
Obama aide to meet with missing Laotian activist's wife
VIENTIANE, Laos - A top aide of President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will meet with the wife of a missing Laotian activist, whose case has been repeatedly highlighted by human rights groups as an ex...
Sep 06, 2016

Volkswagen Truck & Bus buying stake in Navistar for $256M
NEW YORK - Volkswagen Truck & Bus, an arm of the German automaker Volkswagen, is buying a minority stake in Navistar for $256 million. The two companies also said Tuesday that they will enter a pr...
Sep 06, 2016

Germany: driver rams through car park wall, falls 10 feet
BERLIN - An 80-year-old woman took an unintended short cut as she tried to drive her car out of a multistory car park in western Germany, breaking though the building’s wall and landing on a con...
Sep 06, 2016

Chevy Chase enters rehab for 'tuneup' on alcohol problem
LOS ANGELES - Chevy Chase has checked into a rehab facility in Minnesota for treatment for an alcohol problem. Chase’s publicist Heidi Schaeffer said Monday that Chase is at Hazelden Addiction T...
Sep 06, 2016
What If: Could the GOP abandon Trump and focus on Congress?
WASHINGTON - What if the Republican Party turns its back on its presidential nominee? The possibility that the Republican National Committee might abandon Donald Trump is remote. It’s been discu...
Sep 06, 2016
What If: Can Trump boost turnout among white voters?
ATLANTA - If Donald Trump makes it to the White House, white Americans will have handed him the keys. Much depends on whether Trump is right that his campaign is a “movement.” And much res...
Sep 06, 2016
LA airport gunman to plead guilty to murderous shooting plot
LOS ANGELES - A shooter who gunned down airport screening officers three years ago at Los Angeles International Airport in a terrifying attack that sent frantic passengers running for their lives is s...
Sep 06, 2016

British Airways suffers global delays due to computer glitch
LONDON - British Airways travellers are suffering delays globally due to a computer glitch in the check-in systems, the latest in a string of technical failures to hit major international airlines. Tr...
Sep 06, 2016

Militants storm charity building in Afghan capital
KABUL - Militants stormed a building housing an international aid organization in Kabul, provoking an overnight firefight with security forces in which three gunmen were killed and six civilians were ...
Sep 06, 2016
Southeast Asian summit opens, overshadowed by Duterte flap
VIENTIANE, Laos - A summit of Southeast Asian leaders has opened, overshadowed by the Philippine leader’s intemperate comments aimed at President Barack Obama. Philippine President Rodrigo Duter...
Sep 06, 2016