Category Archives: World
How North Korean mountain and myth may have inspired murder
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A desolate but lovely volcano on the North Korea-China border could be the key to unraveling the sudden, mysterious death of an exiled scion of North Korean royalty. South ...
Feb 17, 2017
AP FACT CHECK: Trump piles up the questionable assertions
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump made a messy case that he “inherited a mess” from his predecessor. Economic stats and territorial losses of Islamic State insurgents don’t support...
Feb 17, 2017
Remember Nixon? There's history behind Trump's press attacks
WASHINGTON - Thomas Jefferson railed against newspapers as “polluted vehicles” of falsehood and error. Richard Nixon tangled with reporters in the toxic atmosphere of Watergate, considerin...
Feb 17, 2017
Trump supporters cheer his combative stance with the media
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Critics of President Donald Trump saw in his news conference a combative, thin-skinned chief executive who continues to blame the media for the controversies roiling his administra...
Feb 17, 2017
Harward turns Trump down for national security adviser job
WASHINGTON - Vice Admiral Robert Harward has turned down an offer to be President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, the latest blow to a new administration struggling to find its foo...
Feb 17, 2017
Immigrant haven of Miami-Dade votes against sanctuary status
MIAMI - County commissioners in immigrant-rich Miami-Dade voted Friday to uphold their Cuban-born mayor’s order to co-operate with federal immigration officials, drawing shouts of “shame o...
Feb 17, 2017
Pence arrives in Germany for meetings with world leaders
MUNICH - Making his debut on the world stage, Vice-President Mike Pence is looking to reassure skeptical allies in Europe about U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, who has made his ̶...
Feb 17, 2017
Almost 500 migrants smash through border fence into Spain
MADRID - Almost 500 migrants forced their way into Spanish territory in North Africa early Friday by breaking through gates in the 20-foot (6-meter) high fence that separates Morocco from Spain’...
Feb 17, 2017
Philippine senator charged with accepting drug-linked bribes
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines’ former justice secretary, a senator and prominent critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti-drug crackdown, was charged Friday by prosecutors...
Feb 17, 2017
Cambodian analyst arrested on charge of defaming premier
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A Cambodian political analyst was arrested Friday based on a criminal complaint by Prime Minister Hun Sen that he had defamed him in a radio interview. The Phnom Penh Municipal ...
Feb 17, 2017
