Category Archives: World
Whale-watching comes under scrutiny at South Africa meeting
JOHANNESBURG - Whale-watching is a growing tourist business in many parts of the world, and delegates to an international whale conference in South Africa say guidelines to protect the animals are inc...
Jun 30, 2017
Obama makes nostalgic trip to his Indonesia childhood home
BOGOR, Indonesia - Former U.S. President Barack Obama and his family arrived Friday in his childhood home of Jakarta on the last leg of a 10-day vacation in Indonesia, where they visited ancient templ...
Jun 30, 2017
MSNBC 'Morning Joe' hosts fire back at Trump Twitter blasts
NEW YORK - “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said Friday that President Donald Trump lied about their December encounter in a tweet and that his “unhealthy obse...
Jun 30, 2017
Simone Veil, iconic European feminist politician, dies at 89
PARIS - Simone Veil, a survivor of Nazi death camps and a European Parliament president who spearheaded abortion rights as one of France’s most prominent female politicians, died Friday at 89, h...
Jun 30, 2017
China strongly protests US arms sales to Taiwan
BEIJING - China on Friday strongly protested a U.S. plan to sell $1.4 billion worth of arms to Taiwan and demanded that the deal be cancelled. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the sale ...
Jun 30, 2017
Germany legalizes same-sex marriage after Merkel U-turn
BERLIN - German lawmakers voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, a move widely supported across the country that brings Germany in line with many of its Western peers. Chancellor Angela Merkel vo...
Jun 30, 2017
Weapons watchdog finds sarin used in deadly attack in Syria
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - An investigation by the international chemical weapons watchdog confirmed that sarin nerve gas was used in a deadly April 4 attack on a Syrian town, but a report released Frid...
Jun 30, 2017
Endangered Hawaiian monk seal gives birth on Waikiki beach
HONOLULU - An endangered Hawaiian monk seal has given birth on a Waikiki beach - the first such birth in at least several decades. The seal was born late Wednesday or early Thursday, said Angela Amlin...
Jun 29, 2017
Trump commission on voting fraud asks states for voter data
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - President Donald Trump’s commission investigating alleged voter fraud in the 2016 elections has asked states for a list of the names, party affiliations, addresses and votin...
Jun 29, 2017
NewsAlert: Trump travel ban takes effect
WASHINGTON - Trump administration travel ban goes into effect, barring new visa applicants from 6 countries. The Canadian Press
Jun 29, 2017
