Category Archives: World
US budget deficit narrowed to $42.9 billion in July
WASHINGTON - The federal budget deficit fell sharply in July from a year earlier, largely because of a quirk in the calendar. The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday that the budget gap came in at ...
Aug 10, 2017
Cleaning Caper: Intruder cleans apartment, takes nothing
ARLINGTON, Va. - A Virginia man returned home from a trip and found that his apartment had been broken into - and cleaned. Arlington County Police say in a crime report that shortly after 12 a.m. Mond...
Aug 10, 2017
Yemen's civil war turns country into cholera breeding ground
SANAA, Yemen - Collapsing on sidewalks and constantly vomiting, some of the Yemeni villagers barely make it to the tiny health centre where doctors spread cardboard sheets in the backyard and use tree...
Aug 10, 2017
French security forces now top targets of Islamic radicals
PARIS - French soldiers taking part in Operation Sentinelle are the highest profile symbols of the fight against Islamic extremism - but along with other security forces patrolling French streets are ...
Aug 10, 2017
Analysis: Trump throws his own North Korea strategy a curve
WASHINGTON - Just when President Donald Trump’s strategy for North Korea was finally starting to show dividends, he threw it a curve. At long last, his administration seemed to be speaking with ...
Aug 10, 2017
Kuwait tells AP: North Korean workers welcome amid crisis
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Stalwart U.S. ally Kuwait will continue to grant visas to North Korean labourers whose wages allegedly aid Pyongyang in evading international sanctions, its government to...
Aug 10, 2017
Case of maggots in throat offers rare look at neglect probes
ROME, N.Y. - In his bed at a New York state group home for the severely disabled, Steven Wenger lay helpless against a silent invader. A slimy, wriggling clump was growing around the hole in his throa...
Aug 10, 2017
More video shows Penn State pledge stumbling before death
BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Prosecutors in the criminal case against a Penn State fraternity and 18 of its members related to the death of a pledge after an alcohol-fueled hazing ceremony played new video foota...
Aug 10, 2017
AP Explains: 70 years of India-Pakistan tensions unresolved
NEW DELHI - When the British ended two centuries of colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent in August 1947, they left a jigsaw legacy - the vast country of India flanked on either side by a newly cre...
Aug 10, 2017
Remembering Partition: 70 years since India-Pakistan divide
It’s been 70 years since India and Pakistan were carved from the former British Empire as independent nations, a process that triggered one of the largest human migrations in history. Overnight,...
Aug 10, 2017
