Category Archives: World
Trump scolds fellow NATO leaders: Spend more for military
BRUSSELS - Surrounded by stone-faced allies, President Donald Trump rebuked fellow NATO members Thursday for failing to meet the military alliance’s financial benchmarks, asserting that leaves i...
May 25, 2017
Trump takes a more cautious approach on big trip
BRUSSELS - In his first big tour on the world stage, President Donald Trump is choosing caution over his usual brand of chaos. The early morning Twitter rants that so often rattle Washington have disa...
May 25, 2017
Officials: Manchester bomber passed through Germany, Turkey
BERLIN - The suspected bomber in the concert attack in Britain passed through Germany and Turkey before the attack, authorities said Thursday. Salman Abedi spent only a short time at Duesseldorf airpo...
May 25, 2017
Obama gets rock-star welcome in Berlin, praises Merkel
BERLIN - Barack Obama received a rock-star welcome in Berlin as he appeared at a public debate Thursday with Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom he praised as one of his “favourite partners” du...
May 25, 2017
Foreigners detained in Japan stage hunger strike to stay
TOKYO - Dozens of foreigners seeking permission to stay in Japan have staged a hunger strike while in detention, highlighting what human rights advocates say is shoddy treatment of foreigners here. Su...
May 25, 2017
Beijing protests US Navy patrol through South China Sea
BEIJING - China protested a U.S. Navy patrol that sent a guided missile destroyer near a group of man-made islands in the South China Sea on Thursday, in the first American challenge to Beijing’...
May 25, 2017
US jobless claims rose slightly to 234,000 last week
WASHINGTON - Slightly more people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, but jobless claims remained at historically low levels. THE NUMBERS: Applications for weekly unemployment aid rose 1,000 ...
May 25, 2017
Alabama executes man for 1982 murder-for-hire
ATMORE, Ala. - An inmate once called the “Houdini” of Alabama’s death row for escaping seven past execution dates through legal challenges was put to death early Friday for a 1982 mu...
May 25, 2017
DNA tests identify missing S. Korean girl from ferry sinking
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - DNA tests on bones found in ferry wreckage recently raised from the sea identified a South Korean high school student missing since the 2014 sinking that killed 304 people,...
May 25, 2017
New Zealand test rocket makes it to space but not to orbit
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - California-based company Rocket Lab said Thursday it had launched a test rocket into space from its New Zealand launch pad, although the rocket didn’t reach orbit as ho...
May 25, 2017
