Category Archives: World
Strike over French wage negotiations shutters Eiffel Tower
PARIS - The Eiffel Tower - normally open every day of every year - is closed because of a strike over salaries and working conditions. The company that manages the tower, SETE, apologized to visitors ...
Dec 13, 2016
Christmas delivery at space station, courtesy of Japan
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Christmas gifts arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, courtesy of Japan. A Japanese cargo ship pulled up at the orbiting lab four days after launching. The caps...
Dec 13, 2016
Chinese treated to clear views of another supermoon
BEIJING - Another supermoon has landed in the skies over China. The moon shone brightly Tuesday night in Beijing, as the smog that often blankets China’s capital and most of the industrial north...
Dec 13, 2016
Russian opposition leader Navalny announces presidential bid
MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday officially announced his bid to run in the 2018 presidential election, a move that political observers say puts pressure on President Vladi...
Dec 13, 2016
Obama: President without briefings would be 'flying blind'
NEW YORK - President Barack Obama says any president who shuns daily intelligence briefings would be “flying blind” on national security matters, a stiff push-back against Donald TrumpR...
Dec 13, 2016
Drivers' strike cripples train services in southern England
LONDON - A 48-hour strike by train drivers crippled rail services Tuesday in southern England as a long-running dispute delayed and cancelled journeys for hundreds of thousands of London commuters. Th...
Dec 13, 2016
Italy's new government wins 1st of 2 confidence votes
ROME - Premier Paolo Gentiloni easily won a vote of confidence Tuesday night from the Italian Parliament’s lower chamber for his new government, overcoming opposition outrage that his cabinet an...
Dec 13, 2016
Man who fired shots in DC pizzeria to face federal charges
WASHINGTON - A man inspired by an internet conspiracy theory to fire an assault weapon inside a pizza restaurant warned friends that his “raid” could involve killing people, according to c...
Dec 13, 2016
For Congress, defence contracts are like baseball, apple pie
WASHINGTON - For members of Congress, there’s nothing more American than baseball, apple pie and big defence contracts. After President-elect Donald Trump attacked the cost of the F-35 Joint Str...
Dec 12, 2016
Rebels to evacuate Aleppo in surrender deal as fighting ends
BEIRUT - Syrian rebels reached a cease-fire deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in an effective surrender on Tuesday, as Russia declared all military action had stopped and the Syrian government had ...
Dec 12, 2016
