Category Archives: World
Muslim prayers end peacefully at Jerusalem mosque
JERUSALEM - Prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque ended peacefully on Friday amid two weeks of unrest over security devices at the major holy site in Jerusalem, Israeli police said, but violence flared in the...
Jul 28, 2017
Pakistan's prime minister resigns after high court ruling
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stepped down Friday after the Supreme Court ordered him removed from office over allegations of corruption, plunging the nuclear-ar...
Jul 28, 2017
Thousands of North Korean labourers in US-allied Gulf nations
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As pressure on North Korea grows over its nuclear weapons program, America’s most valued Arab allies host thousands of its labourers whose wages help Pyongyang evad...
Jul 28, 2017
'Big hunt' for Russian hackers, but no obvious election link
MOSCOW - Pyotr Levashov appeared to be just another comfortable member of Russia’s rising middle-class - an IT entrepreneur with a taste for upmarket restaurants, Thai massages and foreign trave...
Jul 28, 2017
Fun in sun after wildfire, reprieve for teen arson suspects
BORMES-LES-MIMOSAS, France - Two teenagers suspected of a role in a wildfire west of Marseille were freed without charge Friday, while vacationers returned to beaches to the east on the Cote d’A...
Jul 28, 2017
AP FACT CHECK: President Trump's phantom VA reform claims
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump paints a rosy picture of an improved Department of Veterans Affairs under his watch where accessing electronic medical records is “so easy and so good” ...
Jul 28, 2017
Not much progress reported on effort to overhaul tax code
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration and Republican congressional leaders appear to have made little concrete progress on a plan to overhaul the tax code and lower business and personal rates. A join...
Jul 28, 2017
Trump appears to advocate rough police treatment of suspects
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. - Talking tough on illegal immigration and violent crime, President Donald Trump appeared Friday to advocate rougher treatment of people in police custody, speaking dismissively of the...
Jul 28, 2017
Couple was celebrating anniversary on cruise
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Utah couple was celebrating their wedding anniversary aboard an Alaska cruise when the husband was found covered in blood next to his wife’s lifeless body, a frenzy of viol...
Jul 28, 2017
British driver totals Ferrari an hour after purchase
LONDON - A British driver has survived a major crash in his Ferrari, an hour after he bought it. Local police called it a “miracle escape,” but the car was not so lucky. South Yorkshire Po...
Jul 28, 2017
