Category Archives: World
Yates: Alarm about Russian blackmail led to warning on Flynn
WASHINGTON - Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates told Congress Monday she bluntly warned the Trump White House in January that new National Security Adviser Michael Flynn “essentially cou...
May 08, 2017
Travel ban arguments focus on Trump's comments about Muslims
RICHMOND, Va. - A challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban appears to hinge on whether a federal appeals court agrees that the Republican’s past anti-Muslim statements can ...
May 08, 2017
Taiwan pushes for inclusion in global health summit
BEIJING - Taiwan is pushing for a last-minute invitation to an annual World Health Organization summit amid rising pressure from Beijing to isolate the island by blocking its participation in internat...
May 08, 2017
Nations critique Filipino leader's rights record at UN body
GENEVA - A Filipino senator briskly defended the human rights record of President Rodrigo Duterte’s government before a U.N. body on Monday, saying his government always “seeks to uphold t...
May 08, 2017
Indonesia to disband hard-line Islamic group Hizbut
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The top Indonesian security minister said Monday the country’s president has ordered the dissolution of a hard-line Islamic group that seeks a global caliphate for Muslim na...
May 08, 2017
Deciding next step in Afghanistan comes with grim backdrop
WASHINGTON - As the Trump administration weighs sending more troops to Afghanistan, the 16-year war grinds on in bloody stalemate. Afghan soldiers are suffering what Pentagon auditors call “shoc...
May 08, 2017
Watchdog says Vietnamese officials bribed by log smugglers
BANGKOK - An environmental watchdog has accused Vietnamese government and military officials of taking payoffs to ignore vast smuggling of lucrative lumber from neighbouring Cambodia. Millions of doll...
May 08, 2017
Pakistan, Afghanistan start joint survey after border clash
QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistan and Afghanistan started a joint survey agreed on following last week’s deadly clashes along the two countries’ disputed boundary in Pakistan’s southwest, ...
May 08, 2017
Afghan air force pounds area after death of IS commander
KABUL - Afghanistan’s air force has pounded Islamic State targets in an eastern province where an Afghan and U.S. military raid last month killed the militant group’s top commander, the go...
May 08, 2017
Act II for France's Macron: getting the majority to govern
PARIS - Freshly elected to the French presidency, Emmanuel Macron now faces an equally difficult Act II: securing the parliamentary majority he needs to make good on his campaign promises to lift Fran...
May 07, 2017
