Category Archives: World
Despite promise, no decision yet from Trump on steel tariffs
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pledged during the campaign to help U.S. factory workers by slapping tariffs on foreign steel. But his long-awaited decision on the issue is running behind schedule...
Jul 10, 2017
New UN mission in Colombia to focus on reintegrating FARC
The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday authorizing a new U.N. political mission in Colombia to focus on reintegrating leftist rebels into society after more than 50 years of war...
Jul 10, 2017
Friends say Texan killed in Greece was easygoing, fun-loving
DALLAS - A 22-year-old Texas man who was beaten to death at a bar on a Greek island recently graduated from college and was known to his friends for his fun-loving and friendly demeanour. Bakari Hende...
Jul 10, 2017
Police: Deputy killed man after girlfriend tried to grab gun
BATON ROUGE, La. - A police report released Monday says a sheriff’s deputy in central Louisiana shot and killed a man after his girlfriend jumped on the officer’s back, bit him and tried t...
Jul 10, 2017
Honduran video journalist shot to death in Mexico
XALAPA, Mexico - Authorities in the Mexican state of Veracruz said Monday that they were investigating the killing of a Honduran video journalist who had sought refugee status in Mexico. In a statemen...
Jul 10, 2017
State Highway Patrol to help address violence in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS - Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Monday unveiled a plan to quell violent crime in St. Louis, a place where he has a home but one he called “the most dangerous city in the United States...
Jul 10, 2017
Military plane crash kills at least 16 in Mississippi
ITTA BENA, Miss. - A U.S. military plane crashed into a field in rural Mississippi on Monday, killing at least 16 people aboard and spreading debris for miles, officials said. Leflore County Emergency...
Jul 10, 2017
Latest: Officer who killed Castile gets $48,500 in agreement
MINNEAPOLIS - The Latest on Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez, who was acquitted last month in the 2016 shooting of black motorist Philando Castile, reaching a separation agreement to leave his ...
Jul 10, 2017
Man dies when air bag inflator ruptures during car repair
DETROIT - Another person has been killed in the U.S. by an exploding Takata air bag inflator, but this death wasn’t the result of a crash. Ramon V. Kuffo, 81, of Hialeah, Florida, was working in...
Jul 10, 2017
Officer who killed Castile to be paid $48,500 in buyout
MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota police officer who was acquitted in last year’s fatal shooting of black motorist Philando Castile will receive $48,500 as he leaves the suburban department that emplo...
Jul 10, 2017
