Category Archives: World
Syria says it seized nearly 75 per cent of eastern Aleppo
BEIRUT - Syrian government forces and allied militias captured Aleppo’s centrally located al-Shaar neighbourhood from rebels on Tuesday, securing nearly three quarters of the besieged enclave le...
Dec 06, 2016
LA authorities boost security after threatened rail attack
LOS ANGELES - The FBI said Tuesday it found no evidence that a bomb threat which prompted heightened security at a Los Angeles subway station was real and the anonymous caller who made it may have rep...
Dec 06, 2016
Danish officer shot outside police station near Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN - A gunman shot a Danish policeman in the head Tuesday outside a police station in suburban Copenhagen, briefly prompting security outside police stations to be stepped up across the countr...
Dec 06, 2016
US productivity up 3.1 per cent in third quarter
WASHINGTON - The productivity of American workers rose in the July-September quarter at the fastest pace in two years while labour costs slowed after a big jump in the spring. Productivity increased i...
Dec 06, 2016
In a first, Israel denies entry to foreign boycott activist
JERUSALEM - In a first such move, Israel has denied entry to a foreign activist involved in efforts to boycott the Jewish state. Israel’s public security and interior ministers said on Tuesday t...
Dec 06, 2016
News guide: Prosecutors can use Cosby's deposition at trial
PHILADELPHIA - A suburban Philadelphia judge settled one of two key pretrial issues in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial when he ruled on Monday that the jury could hear Cosby’s damaging t...
Dec 06, 2016
Southern Madagascar to suffer drought impact into 2017
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - Some rain fell in southern Madagascar last week, a rare piece of good news for a drought-hit region where nearly 1 million people face severe hunger because of failed harves...
Dec 06, 2016
Amnesty slams lasting, forced displacement of Turkey's Kurds
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkish authorities have forcibly evicted tens of thousands of people in security operations in a predominantly Kurdish district of southeastern Turkey, a human rights group said ...
Dec 06, 2016
Greek court agrees to extradite members of Turkish military
ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court agreed Tuesday to extradite three Turkish servicemen who were part of an eight-person helicopter crew that fled to Greece after a failed military coup, a decision that c...
Dec 06, 2016
EU's Brexit negotiator puts time pressure on Britain
BRUSSELS - Britain may not have two years to negotiate its divorce from the European Union after all. The EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit warned Tuesday that the country will have less than 18 m...
Dec 06, 2016
