Category Archives: World
China: US, N. Korea should establish contact, defuse crisis
BEIJING - China urged the United States and North Korea on Tuesday to make contact “as soon as possible” and ease tensions amid rising belligerence from the two sides over the North’...
May 02, 2017
What on earth might a Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting look like?
BANGKOK - In one corner: the unpredictable dictator, the third-generation family ruler whose nation has a seven-decade reputation of being erratic, quick to take umbrage and insistent that it is power...
May 02, 2017
Report: Troops complained about nude photo sharing last year
WASHINGTON - Months before the nude Marine photo-sharing scandal erupted, service members were complaining about a similar issue in an anonymous Defence Department survey on sexual assault and harassm...
May 02, 2017
China removes official over 'superstitious' activities
BEIJING - A former vice governor of a province has been dismissed from public office for superstitious activities and trading power for sex and money, China’s anti-corruption watchdog announced ...
May 02, 2017
Eminem song composer: New Zealand ad is 'blatant rip-off'
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The composer of the opening guitar riff for Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” says the soundtrack of a New Zealand political ad is a “blatant rip-off.” J...
May 02, 2017
Russia, Turkey agree to support safe-zones in Syria
BEIRUT - The presidents of Russia and Turkey said on Wednesday they support the creation of safe-zones in war-torn Syria as a delegation of Syrian rebels walked out of cease-fire talks with the Damasc...
May 02, 2017
In new book, Ivanka Trump gets serious about women at work
WASHINGTON - Ivanka Trump’s first foray into self-help writing came in 2009 with “The Trump Card,” a breezy compilation of workplace advice, stories about her dealmaker dad and a hef...
May 02, 2017
Greece agrees to new bailout terms - and more austerity
ATHENS, Greece - Greece and its rescue creditors have reached a deal needed to unfreeze the country’s bailout program and avoid a default this summer, though it leaves Greeks facing years more o...
May 02, 2017
Dozens arrested as May Day marches turn violent in Northwest
PORTLAND, Ore. - May Day protests turned violent in the Pacific Northwest as demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, threw smoke bombs and Molotov cocktails at police while elsewhere thousands of people pe...
May 02, 2017
Court rejects German woman's demand for hotel to ID lover
BERLIN - A court in Munich has rejected a woman’s legal bid to obtain the name of a man she spent three nights in a hotel with seven years ago. The woman gave birth to a son nine months after th...
May 02, 2017
