Category Archives: World
Helmut Kohl, chancellor who reunited Germany, dies at 87
BERLIN - Helmut Kohl, the physically imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe, died Friday at his home in Ludwigsh...
Jun 16, 2017
Trailblazing South Africa equestrian turns to new generation
JOHANNESBURG - A poised young black woman balances atop a white horse cantering around the ring, standing tall as she moves through several gymnastic poses. When she dismounts, trainer Enos Mafokate s...
Jun 16, 2017
Ex-Milwaukee officer won't testify at his shooting trial
MILWAUKEE - A former Milwaukee police officer on trial in a fatal shooting that sparked riots in a predominantly black neighbourhood said Friday he will not testify, as his attorneys prepare to begin ...
Jun 16, 2017
Among South Sudan's refugees, thousands of stranded children
IMVEPI, Uganda - Bakita Juma doesn’t like to think about her dead parents because it makes her cry. The slender teenager would rather focus on the woman whom aid officials recently chose to rais...
Jun 16, 2017
NewsAlert: German political party: Helmut Kohl, the chancellor credited with German reunification, has died at 87
BERLIN - German political party: Helmut Kohl, the chancellor credited with German reunification, has died at 87. More coming. The Associated Press
Jun 16, 2017
Girlfriend whose texts urged suicide guilty of manslaughter
TAUNTON, Mass. - A woman who sent her boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself when they were both teenagers was convicted Friday of involuntary manslaughter in a trial that rai...
Jun 16, 2017
Higher prices squeezing both renters and would-be homeowners
A diminished supply of available homes is swelling prices in large U.S. metro areas from New York to Miami to Los Angeles, squeezing out would-be buyers and pushing up rents as more people are forced ...
Jun 16, 2017
The Latest: Cosby judge bristles at requests for mistrial
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - The Latest on the sexual assault trial of Bill Cosby (all times local): 1:15 p.m. The judge at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial is bristling at repeated defence requests for a...
Jun 16, 2017
US official's 'quiet diplomacy' led to Warmbier's release
WASHINGTON - It took months of “quiet diplomacy,” a change in U.S. presidents and an American diplomat’s extraordinary, secret visit to Pyongyang to bring Otto Warmbier home. U.S. sp...
Jun 16, 2017
Emails reiterate EPA chief's ties to fossil fuel interests
WASHINGTON - Newly obtained emails underscore just how closely Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt co-ordinated with fossil fuel companies while serving as Oklahoma’s state attorn...
Jun 16, 2017
