Category Archives: World
Iraq military: Troops have 'full control' of eastern Mosul
BAGHDAD - U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops announced on Wednesday they were in “full control” of eastern Mosul after routing Islamic State militants from that part of the northern city,...
Jan 18, 2017
Hong Kong actor Andy Lau injured while working in Thailand
Hong Kong actor Andy Lau has been injured while working in Thailand. A statement from his representative said the 55-year-old actor fell off a horse and injured his pelvis on the set of a commercial T...
Jan 18, 2017
No word from Jammeh as midnight deadline arrives in Gambia
DAKAR, Senegal - After more than two decades in power, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh faced the prospect of a military intervention by regional forces, as the man who once pledged to rule the West Afr...
Jan 18, 2017
Commerce pick say NAFTA will be early target for team Trump
WASHINGTON - Breaking with Republican orthodoxy, a new Trump administration will work quickly to re-do the North American Free Trade Agreement, a massive trade pact with Canada and Mexico that has boo...
Jan 18, 2017
Trump's strategy on Mexico could be 'dagger at Ohio'
DAVOS, Switzerland - President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to firms using Mexico as a manufacturing base will be counterproductive and could eventually cost thousands of American jobs, Lawrence...
Jan 18, 2017
4 quakes shake Italy, isolating towns blanketed under snow
ROME - Four strong earthquakes on Wednesday shook the same region of central Italy that suffered deadly temblors last year, sending quake-rattled residents into panic and further isolating towns that ...
Jan 18, 2017
Janet Napolitano in hospital with side effect of cancer care
SAN FRANCISCO - University of California President Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Homeland Security secretary and governor of Arizona, has been undergoing cancer treatment for five months and was hos...
Jan 18, 2017
In break with Trump, EPA pick says climate change isn't hoax
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that climate change is real, breaking with both the president-elect and his own past statements. In ...
Jan 18, 2017
Russia extends residence permit for Snowden
MOSCOW - Russian authorities have extended a residence permit for U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked thousands of secret documents from the National Security Agency. Foreign Minis...
Jan 18, 2017
Denver starts work on allowing pot in public, a first in US
Denver is starting work Wednesday on becoming the first city in the nation to allow marijuana clubs and public pot use in places such as coffee shops, yoga studios and art galleries. Voters narrowly a...
Jan 18, 2017
