Category Archives: World
Rip currents leave 1 dead, 2 missing at Jersey shore
BELMAR, N.J. - Rip currents have left one girl dead and two teenagers missing on two different New Jersey beaches where lifeguards were not on duty. A 13-year-old died and her 12-year-old cousin was o...
Jun 16, 2017
Diverse London neighbourhood unites in fire aftermath
LONDON - It’s been called a “tale of two cities”: London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with its billionaires’ homes, neat rows of embassies and a royal palac...
Jun 16, 2017
Hiring up in 9 US states, jobless rates at record low in 4
WASHINGTON - Employers added a significant number of jobs in nine states last month, and unemployment rates in four states fell to record lows. The Labor Department said Friday that the states with th...
Jun 16, 2017
Amazon buying Whole Foods in bold move into brick and mortar
NEW YORK - Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a deal valued at about $13.7 billion, a stunning move into brick-and-mortar retail that sets the stage for more radical store experimentation and intensified...
Jun 16, 2017
Markets Right Now: Grocer stocks plunge on Whole Foods deal
The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Major U.S. indexes are slightly lower in midday trading on Wall Street, but grocery stores and other retailers are plungin...
Jun 16, 2017
58 people confirmed or presumed dead from London tower fire
London police on Saturday raised to 58 the number of deaths either confirmed or presumed following the horrific inferno that turned the city’s Grenfell Tower public housing block into a charred ...
Jun 16, 2017
China police: Bomb behind kindergarten blast; suspect dead
BEIJING - A 22-year-old man made the bomb that exploded at the front gate of a kindergarten in eastern China, killing eight people, including himself, investigators said Friday, apparently closing the...
Jun 16, 2017
Trump acknowledges for first time he's under investigation
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time Friday that he is under federal investigation as part of the expanding probe into Russia’s election meddling. He lashed out at...
Jun 16, 2017
Fate of program to protect young immigrants still undecided
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration said Friday it still has not decided the fate of a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation, despite a statement a day earlie...
Jun 16, 2017
6 suspects convicted in 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts
MUMBAI, India - An Indian court on Friday convicted six people of involvement in an attack in Mumbai in 1993 in which 12 powerful bombs packed in cars, scooters and suitcases killed 257 people and inj...
Jun 16, 2017
