Category Archives: World
Trump's planned reduction in refugees may hit Myanmar worst
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Tin, her husband and five children have cleared years of refugee hurdles to come to the U.S.: blood tests, interviews, DNA and fingerprints, background checks. She has her one...
Mar 16, 2017
Philippine lawmaker seeks to impeach Duterte over drug fight
MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine lawmaker filed an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday because of the thousands of deaths in his anti-drug crackdown and alleged corru...
Mar 16, 2017
US soldiers train for jungle warfare in Hawaii rainforest
HONOLULU - The U.S. Army soldiers finished wading across a stream in a rainforest in Hawaii, and they were soaked. Their boots and socks were water-logged and their clothes, hair and ears were caked w...
Mar 16, 2017
Malaysia raises alert as bird flu virus hits more birds
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities raised an alert for a northeastern state after the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus was found to have spread to poultry in more villages. Some 24,000 birds h...
Mar 16, 2017
Yahoo breach indictments may shed light on other hacks
WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities may now be in a better position to figure out if Russian hackers and Russian spies swayed last year’s presidential elections. A scheme uncovered during a federal in...
Mar 16, 2017
Prince William's ski holiday sparks media criticism
LONDON - Britain’s Prince William is taking flak for going on a ski holiday instead of attending a major royal engagement with his family. Criticism mounted after footage emerged of 34-year-old ...
Mar 16, 2017
US housing starts rose in Feb., led by single-family homes
WASHINGTON - U.S. builders broke ground on new homes at a faster pace in February, a sign that developers expect solid sales growth this year. The Commerce Department says housing starts rose 3 per ce...
Mar 16, 2017
US claims for unemployment benefits slip by 2,000
WASHINGTON - Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a further indication of the health of the labour market. THE NUMBERS: Applications for jobless benefits slipped by 2,000 to 24...
Mar 16, 2017
French school shooting: 4 shot, 10 hurt, student arrested
PARIS - A 16-year-old student who had troubled relations with his peers opened fire at a high school in southern France on Thursday, wounding three other students and the principal who tried to interv...
Mar 16, 2017
Police: 3-year-old girl lived alone with dead mom for days
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - A 3-year-old girl lived alone with her dead mother for several days in their apartment with nothing to eat but cereal that had spilled on a floor, police officials said. Authori...
Mar 16, 2017
