Category Archives: World
Cleveland police ID officer after toddler son dies
CLEVELAND - Police on Saturday identified the veteran Cleveland officer whose 2-year-old son died after apparently shooting himself with his father’s service weapon. A Cleveland police statement...
Dec 24, 2016
Spared from demolition, 1920s black schoolhouse being saved
SAVANNAH, Ga. - As a girl in the mid-1950s, Amy Roberts would catch a ride each morning with her neighbours the Johnsons, the couple that ran the one-room schoolhouse where black children were taught ...
Dec 24, 2016
After Berlin attack, Europe weighs freedom against security
PARIS - Open borders symbolize liberty and forward thinking for many Europeans - but they increasingly look like the continent’s Achilles’ heel. Europe’s No. 1 terrorism suspect cros...
Dec 24, 2016
Sweden's German-born queen hospitalized for dizziness
COPENHAGEN - Sweden’s popular German-born Queen Silvia has been hospitalized on her 73rd birthday because of dizziness. The Swedish royal household says Silvia was kept overnight for observation...
Dec 24, 2016
Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall suffers miscarriage
LONDON - Officials say Queen Elizabeth II’s granddaughter, Zara Tindall, has suffered a miscarriage. She and her husband, retired rugby player Mike Tindall, had been expecting their second child...
Dec 24, 2016
As Obama accomplished policy goals, his party floundered
WASHINGTON - In boasting about his tenure in the White House, President Barack Obama often cites numbers like these: 15 million new jobs, a 4.9 per cent unemployment rate and 74 months of consecutive ...
Dec 24, 2016
Turkey arrests 1,656 social media users since summer
ISTANBUL - Turkish authorities have formally arrested 1,656 people in the past six months for allegedly supporting terrorist organizations or insulting officials on social media, and are investigating...
Dec 24, 2016
Nigeria: Boko Haram is crushed, forced out of last enclave
LAGOS, Nigeria - The Boko Haram extremist group has finally been crushed - driven from its last forest enclave with fighters on the run and no place to hide, Nigeria’s president declared Saturda...
Dec 24, 2016
World's last wild frankincense forests are under threat
ERIGAVO, Somalia - In a tradition dating to Biblical times, men rise at dawn in the rugged Cal Madow mountains of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa to scale rocky outcrops in search of the prized sap o...
Dec 24, 2016
In Zimbabwe's meltdown, Christmas is out of reach for many
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Naison Makwechede rummages through piles of used clothes at a busy flea market in Zimbabwe’s capital in hopes of finding Christmas clothes for his family. This secondhand sear...
Dec 24, 2016
