Category Archives: World
AP Interview: Top US Catholic bishop plans for Trump meeting
HOUSTON - The top Roman Catholic bishop in the U.S. lauds President Donald Trump for his anti-abortion views, for comments on the importance of Catholic schools and for promising to defend religious l...
Apr 13, 2017
Investigators: Fear holding back witnesses in killings of 8
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Residents of a rural southern Ohio county are holding back information on the unsolved massacre of eight family members based on fear, authorities said Thursday as the anniversary of ...
Apr 13, 2017
Turkish journalists, banned at home, set up shop in Germany
COLOGNE, Germany - Facing harassment, enforced shutdowns and the threat of jail at home, Turkey’s journalists in exile are using Germany as a base to report on political turmoil in their country...
Apr 13, 2017
Prince of Transylvania? Prince Charles offered new title
BUCHAREST, Romania - Britain’s Prince Charles has boasted he shares a bloodline with legendary 15th-century prince Vlad the Impaler. Now a mayor is offering to make him Prince of Transylvania. A...
Apr 13, 2017
Kim Jong Un opens complex of N. Korean high-rise apartments
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - While tensions between his country and the United States appeared to be escalating rapidly, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made a high-profil...
Apr 13, 2017
Teachers cash in, big time, by putting lessons up for sale
Miss Kindergarten is in the million-dollar club. So are Lovin Lit, the Moffatt Girls and about a dozen other teacher-entrepreneurs who are spinning reading, math, science and social studies into gold ...
Apr 13, 2017
Oman's mountains may hold clues for reversing climate change
WADI ABDAH, Oman - Deep in the jagged red mountains of Oman, geologists are searching for an efficient and cheap way to remove carbon dioxide from the air and oceans - and perhaps begin to reverse cli...
Apr 13, 2017
50 years after war, settlements blur future borders
JERUSALEM - For many Israelis, Har Homa is another neighbourhood in Jerusalem, served by city bus lines and schools. Its quiet streets are lined with apartment buildings, pizza shops, supermarkets and...
Apr 13, 2017
Trump boasts of hiring only the best, but picks haunt him
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump likes to boast that he hires only the best people. But his personnel choices keep coming back to haunt him. One of the people Trump hired for the White House was wo...
Apr 13, 2017
Kremlin: No positive shift yet on Russia-US ties
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hasn’t produced any positive shift yet in Russia-U.S. relations, the Kremlin said Thursday. PutinR...
Apr 13, 2017
