Category Archives: World
Charlottesville mayor calls for swift removal of Lee statue
RICHMOND, Va. - The mayor of Charlottesville on Friday called for an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to confirm the city’s right to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a requ...
Aug 18, 2017
NASA, PBS marking 40 years since Voyager spacecraft launches
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors - the twin Voyager spacecraft - are carrying sounds and music of our planet ever deeper into the cosmos. T...
Aug 18, 2017
Bombardier says Russian worker charged with bribery doesn't reflect its values
MONTREAL - Bombardier says the filing of formal criminal charges in Sweden on Friday against a railway employee doesn’t reflect its values. “We take these allegations very seriously as the...
Aug 18, 2017
Vietnam battles dengue outbreaks with 42 per cent more cases
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has been battling raging dengue fever outbreaks with more than 10,000 new infections reported over the past week stretching its medical system. The number of admitted patients...
Aug 18, 2017
Danes charge imam for comparing gays to pedophiles.
COPENHAGEN - Danish prosecutors have charged a 49-year-old imam for making public remarks against homosexuals, whom he compared to pedophiles. Prosecutor Jan Reckendorff says the unidentified imam vio...
Aug 18, 2017
Charlottesville exposes new threat for college campuses
BOSTON - On college campuses, white supremacists and other far-right extremist groups see fertile ground to spread their messages and recruit followers. But for many colleges, last weekend’s dea...
Aug 18, 2017
Sierra Leone death toll now up to 450 after mudslides
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Rescue officials in Sierra Leone warned Friday that the chances of finding survivors in the debris of this week’s mudslides “are getting smaller every day,” ...
Aug 18, 2017
Estimates of North Korea's nuclear weapons hard to nail down
WASHINGTON - The U.S. intelligence agencies’ assessments of the size of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal have a wide gap between high and low estimates. Size matters and not knowing makes it ...
Aug 18, 2017
Soothing the nation? Trump struggles like no other president
WASHINGTON - For Susan Bro, mother of the woman killed at a rally organized by white supremacists, the president of the United States can offer no healing words. She says the White House repeatedly tr...
Aug 18, 2017
Austrians first in Europe to make bacon on industrial scale?
VIENNA - Austrians were making bacon thousands of years ago. And a researcher says they were probably the first in Europe to do it on an industrial scale. Hans Reschreiter of Vienna’s Museum of ...
Aug 18, 2017
