Category Archives: World
Venezuela socialists met shaming, protests on trips abroad
MIAMI - Javier Fungairino was eating breakfast with his son at a bakery one recent morning when he noticed a familiar face at a nearby table: a former minister of Venezuela’s socialist governmen...
May 30, 2017
Reliving Communist past helps East German dementia patients
BERLIN - Every weekday morning, white-haired women patiently line up before a door at a Dresden retirement home, step in, and quickly step back nearly six decades into their past in Communist East Ger...
May 30, 2017
Zimbabwe tobacco is booming, but farmers growing it are not
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Farmer Simon Kahari recently sold tobacco worth more than $6,000 at an auction in Zimbabwe, a small fortune reflecting the golden leaf’s resurgence in this southern African co...
May 30, 2017
Tough-on-crime official eyes other policies on DOJ agenda
WASHINGTON - A zealous prosecutor who was crucial in writing the Justice Department’s new policy encouraging harsher punishments for criminals is now turning his attention to hate crimes, mariju...
May 30, 2017
McConnell faces a challenge passing health care in Senate
WASHINGTON - For Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, writing a Republican-only health care bill that can pass the Senate boils down to this question: How do you solve a problem like Dean, Lisa, Patrick, ...
May 30, 2017
Ominous and overlooked: Back-bay flooding plagues millions
OCEAN CITY, N.J. - Marty Mozzo gets a gorgeous show each night when the sun sets over wetlands near his property on the bay side of a barrier island. When he and his wife bought the house in 2008, she...
May 30, 2017
From Nikki Haley, another side of Trump's 'America First'
Nikki Haley crouched low in the trailer of an 18-wheeler taping up a box of lentils and wheat for besieged Syrians, her hands-on diplomacy a world apart from the gleaming new NATO headquarters where P...
May 30, 2017
Trump pays sombre tribute to fallen troops on Memorial Day
ARLINGTON, Va. - President Donald Trump expressed the nation’s “boundless” gratitude for the ultimate sacrifice paid by Americans defending the United States, dedicating his first Me...
May 30, 2017
Trump repeats criticism of Germany, Merkel stands by stance
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of Germany following Chancellor Angela Merkel’s suggestion that her country needs to adopt a more independent stance in world affair...
May 30, 2017
BA debacle puts spotlight on airlines' old IT systems, cuts
LONDON - The catastrophic IT failure at British Airways that ruined travel plans for 75,000 people has raised questions about some older airlines’ focus on costs to the detriment of investment i...
May 30, 2017
