Category Archives: World
China bans 'fatty' Kim Jong Un nickname on websites
BEIJING - Chinese websites are censoring “Kim Fatty the Third,” a nickname widely used to disparage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after officials from his country reportedly conveyed th...
Nov 16, 2016
Thousands of kids dying in northeast Nigeria, says survey
LAGOS, Nigeria - Thousands of children have died of starvation and disease in Boko Haram-ravaged northeastern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday quoting a new survey that is forcing Nigeria...
Nov 16, 2016
Trump's lobbyist ban complicates administration hiring
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington might make it difficult for him to fill all the jobs in his administration. Trump̵...
Nov 16, 2016
Trump: No transition turmoil, efforts going 'so smoothly'
NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump and his team on Wednesday vigorously rejected charges of turmoil and infighting roiling efforts to set up his White House, national security and economic teams....
Nov 16, 2016
Obama urges nations not to give in to isolationist impulses
ATHENS, Greece - Standing in democracy’s birthplace, President Barack Obama on Wednesday issued a parting plea to world leaders not to let the fear of globalization tugging at Europe and the U.S...
Nov 15, 2016
2 French tourists die while snorkeling on Great Barrier Reef
CANBERRA, Australia - Two elderly French tourists died of heart attacks moments apart while snorkeling on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, officials said. The 76-year-old man and 74-...
Nov 15, 2016
Trump ditches media - the public's eyes and ears - again
NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump emerged from his New York skyscraper Tuesday night for the first time in days, moving about the nation’s largest city without a pool of journalists on han...
Nov 15, 2016
Inventive Cubans hunt expensive fish using inflated condoms
HAVANA - Juan Luis Rosello sat for three hours on the Malecon as the wind blew in from the Florida Straits, pushing the waves hard against the seawall of Havana’s coastal boulevard. As darkness ...
Nov 15, 2016
Indonesia police name Jakarta governor as blasphemy suspect
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Police on Wednesday named the Christian governor of the Indonesian capital as a suspect in a blasphemy investigation in a major test of the Muslim-majority nation’s reputati...
Nov 15, 2016
Kelly says it's important people learn of Trump's actions
NEW YORK - Megyn Kelly said Tuesday she didn’t want to reveal much about President-elect Donald Trump’s treatment of her the past year so as to not be accused of trying to tip the election...
Nov 15, 2016
