Category Archives: World
Dolly Parton gives support to wildfire victims, 'my people'
NASHVILLE - Country music icon Dolly Parton’s home and businesses in East Tennessee were spared from deadly wildfires last month, but she’s pitching in to help her neighbours recover from ...
Dec 13, 2016
San Francisco Symphony nixes Chapel Hill concerts due to HB2
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The San Francisco Symphony says it has cancelled two scheduled appearances next spring at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill because of a state law limiting LGBT prote...
Dec 13, 2016
Trump invites Senate clash with Tillerson State nomination
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is inviting a clash in the narrowly divided Senate by choosing Rex Tillerson for secretary of State in the face of well-publicized concerns from several GOP senators over the...
Dec 13, 2016
Mexico finds 2 border tunnels leading from Tijuana into US
MEXICO CITY - Mexican police and soldiers have discovered two clandestine tunnels in the border city of Tijuana that officials believe were built to smuggle drugs into California. The tunnels were fou...
Dec 13, 2016
Colombia court gives Santos power to quickly implement peace
BOGOTA - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has gotten a major boost in his bid to deliver peace with the country’s Constitution Court granting him “fast-track” authority to quic...
Dec 13, 2016
As Aleppo falls, Trump faces test on posture toward Russia
WASHINGTON - Aleppo’s fall to Syrian government forces is shaping up as the first major test of President-elect Donald Trump’s desire to co-operate with Russia, whose military support has ...
Dec 13, 2016
EPA fracking report offers few answers on drinking water
WASHINGTON - Is hydraulic fracturing - better known as fracking - safe, as the oil and gas industry claims? Or does the controversial drilling technique that has spurred a domestic energy boom contami...
Dec 13, 2016
Venezuelan rush to unload bank notes before deadline
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans took a break from lining up to buy food and medicine Tuesday and spent their day waiting in crowds to deposit bank notes about to become worthless. As tempers flared i...
Dec 13, 2016
Pearl Harbor survivor, volunteer greeter dies at age 99
HONOLULU - An Army veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the U.S. into World War II and later volunteered at the historic site has died at age 99. Herb Weatherwax greeted people...
Dec 13, 2016
Oklahoma police say child abuse worst seen, 2 arrested
OWASSO, Okla. - An Oklahoma couple has been arrested in what a police officer calls the worst case of child abuse he’s seen. Police arrested 25-year-old Kevin Fowler and 24-year-old Aislyn Mille...
Dec 13, 2016
