Category Archives: World
Mueller taking on new challenge after heading FBI on 9-11
WASHINGTON - Robert Mueller took office as FBI director in 2001 expecting to dig into drug cases, white-collar misdeeds and violent crime. A week later was Sept. 11. Overnight, his mission changed and...
May 17, 2017
California lawmaker pulls bill on Cold War-era communist ban
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A bill that would have let communists legally work in California government was withdrawn Wednesday after the sponsor said he learned it caused veterans and Vietnamese-Americans &...
May 17, 2017
Family lawyer alleges Vegas officer misconduct in fatal case
LAS VEGAS - Relatives of an unarmed man who died after a struggle with a police officer outside a Las Vegas casino want the officer fired and brought up on criminal charges for repeatedly using a stun...
May 17, 2017
'Bridget Jones' author wins comic fiction prize, and a pig
LONDON - Helen Fielding’s latest book about the misadventures of indomitable singleton Bridget Jones has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, winning Fielding rewards th...
May 17, 2017
House passes bill to crack down on Syria's financial backers
WASHINGTON - The Republican-led House has overwhelmingly approved legislation that crack downs on financial supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government. Lawmakers passed the biparti...
May 17, 2017
Brazil's lower house OKs reducing protection in Amazon park
SAO PAULO - Brazil’s lower house of Congress has approved a measure significantly reducing the size of a fully protected national park in the Amazon rain forest and opening up a big chunk of lan...
May 17, 2017
Former FBI Director Mueller to lead Trump-Russia probe
WASHINGTON - Robert Mueller has been given sweeping power to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, an acknowledgment of growing public demands to place the politically ch...
May 17, 2017
22 per cent of Flint excavations have led to copper pipes
FLINT, Mich. - About 22 per cent of excavations tied to Flint’s lead-tainted water crisis have led to copper pipes that do not pose a threat of leaching lead, city records show. Flint Action and...
May 17, 2017
UN: 300,000 children migrating solo, up nearly fivefold
DAKAR, Senegal - Authorities have documented more than 300,000 children migrating alone worldwide over a two-year period, marking a dramatic escalation of a trend that has forced many young refugees i...
May 17, 2017
Chicago Police release final version of use-of-force policy
CHICAGO - The Chicago Police Department, struggling to regain public trust in the wake of a video of a white officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times, on Wednesday released a new use of forc...
May 17, 2017
