Category Archives: World
Survey: US companies add 263K jobs in March, most in 2 years
WASHINGTON - U.S. private businesses added the most jobs in more than two years last month, a private survey found, a third straight month of robust gains. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that bu...
Apr 05, 2017
Indian police: Mob kills Muslim man who was transporting cow
NEW DELHI - A Muslim man beaten by a mob that accused him of transporting cows for slaughter has died in western India, police said Wednesday, in the latest violence by Hindu vigilante groups enraged ...
Apr 05, 2017
Top general on Congress' failure on budget: Malpractice
WASHINGTON - The Army’s top officer admonished Congress on Wednesday for its inability to approve a defence spending bill for the current fiscal year and rejected the notion the legislative brea...
Apr 05, 2017
German Cabinet OKs rules to not recognize child marriages
BERLIN - Germany’s Cabinet has approved new rules to ensure that most marriages involving under-18s aren’t legally recognized in the country. The issue arose following the influx of migran...
Apr 05, 2017
Duterte's approval rating drops, but popularity remains high
MANILA, Philippines - Results of an independent poll released Wednesday showed a drop in the number of Filipinos who trust President Rodrigo Duterte, although he was still considered trustworthy by th...
Apr 05, 2017
Wilders to field candidates in Dutch municipal elections
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Geert Wilders, the Netherlands’ anti-Islam firebrand, says his Party for Freedom wants to field candidates in dozens of municipalities across the country in local electi...
Apr 05, 2017
Polish government to take control of major new WWII museum
WARSAW, Poland - A court paved the way Wednesday for Poland’s government to take control of a new World War II museum that has been the focus of a major ideological standoff over how to remember...
Apr 05, 2017
Car bomb kills at least 7 at restaurant in Somalia's capital
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A massive car bomb blast at a restaurant in Somalia’s capital killed at least seven people, police said Wednesday, as fears grew that al-Shabab extremists who have vowed to ...
Apr 05, 2017
Mounting confidence nerve gas was used in Syria attack
BEIRUT - Diplomats at the U.N. Security council sparred Wednesday over whether to hold President Bashar Assad’s government responsible for a chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 peop...
Apr 05, 2017
Iraq suicide bombings in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, kill 22
BAGHDAD - Islamic militants unleashed multiple suicide attacks in the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people, a provincial official said on Wednesday. Five suicide bombers on foo...
Apr 05, 2017
