Category Archives: World
Woe for stores as shoppers look elsewhere for inspiration
NEW YORK - Erica Dao used to shop at malls once a month, looking in stores and seeing what the mannequins displayed. Now, she mainly looks for inspiration on social media. “I discover brands thr...
Mar 23, 2017
Northern Ireland bids farewell to ex-IRA chief McGuinness
DUBLIN - Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army chieftain who turned away from violence to forge bonds with Northern Ireland’s Protestants, was laid to rest Thursday in a cross-community s...
Mar 23, 2017
Poland's WWII museum opens amid an uncertain future
WARSAW, Poland - A major World War II museum opened in northern Poland on Thursday amid plans by the conservative government to change its content to fit the government’s nationalist views. The ...
Mar 23, 2017
US turns down Russia invitation to Afghan peace conference
WASHINGTON - The United States won’t attend a multinational peace conference on Afghanistan next month in Russia, a State Department official said Thursday. The reasons: The U.S. wasn’t co...
Mar 23, 2017
Officials: Man in trafficking case forced tattoos on victims
ATLANTA - Prosecutors say a man accused of holding women against their will in a million-dollar home also forced them to get gang-related tattoos and took the money they made working at a strip club. ...
Mar 23, 2017
Mickey vs. the tax man: Disney, Universal fight tax bills
ORLANDO, Fla. - It takes a lot of land to accommodate Cinderella’s castle, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Epcot’s 11-country World Showcase - and a hefty purse to pay the property...
Mar 23, 2017
On ethics of advisers' China deals, Trump goes case by case
WASHINGTON - Anthony Scaramucci announced to the world in January that he would be leaving Wall Street for the White House to become President Donald Trump’s top public liaison. Not long after, ...
Mar 23, 2017
Border Patrol union takes centre stage under Trump
SOLANA BEACH, Calif. - Once a week, union leaders representing U.S. Border Patrol agents host a radio show from a sleepy office park near San Diego, where studio walls are covered with an 8-by-12-foot...
Mar 23, 2017
Aid group fears hundreds of migrants drowned off Libya
MADRID - Hundreds of migrants may have died off Libya’s coast, a Spanish aid organization said Friday, and Turkish media reported that 11 migrants died after a boat sank in the Aegean. Video foo...
Mar 23, 2017
Russia, Ukraine at odds over singer's Eurovision performance
GENEVA - Eurovision song contest organizers say they have taken the unprecedented step of offering to let Russia’s contestant perform via satellite after authorities in host Ukraine banned her f...
Mar 23, 2017
