Category Archives: World
UK police shoot 1, arrest 6 others in counterterror raids
LONDON - British police said Friday they had disrupted an active terror plot with raids in London and southeastern England. One woman was shot and seriously wounded as heavily armed counterterrorism o...
Apr 28, 2017
Montenegro lawmakers back NATO membership in historic move
CETINJE, Montenegro - Montenegro’s parliament on Friday supported the Balkan country’s membership in NATO in a historic turn toward the West amid protests by Russia and the pro-Russia oppo...
Apr 28, 2017
US employment costs climbed steadily in first quarter
WASHINGTON - Wages and benefits paid to U.S. civilian workers grew steadily in the first three months of the year. The Employment Cost Index, which tracks wages and benefits, was up 0.8 per cent in th...
Apr 28, 2017
In Egypt, pope brings a message of peace amid crackdown
CAIRO - Pope Francis demanded that Egypt’s Muslim leaders teach a rejection of violence in God’s name during a delicate visit Friday to the Arab world’s most populous country, and he...
Apr 28, 2017
Alex Acosta sworn in as US labour secretary
WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence swore in Alex Acosta as the nation’s new labour secretary Friday, filling out President Donald Trump’s Cabinet as he approaches his 100th day in offi...
Apr 28, 2017
Far-right candidate bedeviled by France's Nazi history
PARIS - The horrors of the World War II Nazi death camps moved front and centre in France’s presidential campaign on Friday, nine days before the election, reawakening the anti-Semitic stigma th...
Apr 28, 2017
N. Korean missile test fails hours after UN meeting on nukes
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A North Korean mid-range ballistic missile apparently failed shortly after launch Saturday, South Korea and the United States said, the third test-fire flop just this month...
Apr 28, 2017
Australian police reveal they broke new metadata laws
CANBERRA, Australia - Australian police revealed on Friday that an officer broke the country’s contentious new metadata laws by illegally accessing a journalist’s phone records to identify...
Apr 28, 2017
No motive in Delaware trooper's fatal shooting, standoff
MIDDLETOWN, Del. - About 20 hours after he fatally shot a state trooper, a Delaware man was shot to death after an overnight standoff with police, but authorities haven’t given a motive for his ...
Apr 28, 2017
Vietnam court condemns 8 to death for heroin trafficking
HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese state media say a court in Hanoi has condemned eight people to death for heroin trafficking. The Hanoi People’s Court on Thursday convicted 11 people of trafficking 3...
Apr 28, 2017
