Category Archives: World
Italy welcomes 41 Syrian refugees, seeks bridges not walls
ROME - Italian government and church officials welcomed 41 Syrian refugees at Rome’s airport Monday, saying they wanted to show solidarity with those fleeing war at a time when the U.S. is sendi...
Jan 30, 2017
Tensions flare as Koch promises to hold Trump accountable
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - Conservative patriarch Charles Koch and his vast network is vowing to oppose President Donald Trump if and when he deviates from their dedication to “free and open societi...
Jan 30, 2017
UK says Trump visit still on amid outcry over travel ban
LONDON - President Donald Trump’s order barring U.S. entry to people from seven majority Muslim nations is “divisive, discriminatory and wrong,” British Foreign Secretary Boris Johns...
Jan 30, 2017
Japanese arcade pioneer and 'Father of Pac-Man' has died
TOKYO - Masaya Nakamura, the “Father of Pac-Man” who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91. Nakamura, who died on Jan. 22, foun...
Jan 30, 2017
7 troops reported killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW - At least seven Ukrainian troops have been killed in an apparent uptick in fighting in eastern Ukraine, government officials said on Monday. An armed conflict between government troops and sep...
Jan 30, 2017
Pomsel, former secretary of Nazi propagandist, dies at 106
BERLIN - Brunhilde Pomsel, a former secretary of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, has died. She was 106. Pomsel lived most of her life in relative obscurity until a German newspaper published...
Jan 30, 2017
Trump ousts acting attorney general as outcry grows
WASHINGTON - Defiant in the face of an international backlash, President Donald Trump pressed into his second week in office defending his sweeping immigration ban - and then fired a Cabinet head who ...
Jan 30, 2017
Air France turns away 15 from Muslim countries for Trump ban
PARIS - Air France has blocked 15 passengers from Muslim countries from travelling to the U.S. because they would have been refused entry under President Donald Trump’s new immigration ban. Air ...
Jan 30, 2017
A look at Trump's executive order on refugees, immigration
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that makes major changes to America’s immigration system, sparking confusion at airports, protests around the country and den...
Jan 30, 2017
Starbucks to hire 10,000 refugees over next 5 years
WASHINGTON - Starbucks says it will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years, a response to President Donald Trump’s indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees and temporary travel bans that ...
Jan 29, 2017
