Category Archives: World
Wildfire sparks decline in tourism business in Big Sur
BIG SUR, Calif. - Lodge managers and cafe owners along California’s dramatic Big Sur coast were looking Friday at a summer of jittery guests and cancelled bookings after fire officials warned th...
Jul 29, 2016
Spain: Rajoy to begin bid to form gov't but calendar unclear
MADRID - Spain’s acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was to begin calling opposition party leaders Friday in a bid to get badly needed parliamentary support after accepting the king’s peti...
Jul 29, 2016
Eurozone growth halves in Q2 but inflation inches up in July
BRUSSELS - Official figures show that economic growth across the 19-country eurozone halved in the second quarter of the year, a development that’s probably more likely due to the fading boost f...
Jul 29, 2016
UN Syria envoy tells Russia: Leave Aleppo corridors 'to us'
GENEVA - The U.N. special envoy for Syria on Friday urged Russia to leave the creation of humanitarian corridors around Aleppo to the United Nations and its partners, issuing a gentle snub to Moscow, ...
Jul 29, 2016
Questions remain about killing of San Diego policeman
San Diego police were trying to determine whether a shooting that killed a veteran officer and wounded another was a deliberate attack. Jonathan DeGuzman, a 16-year veteran of the force, died Thursday...
Jul 29, 2016
Clinton roars against Trump as a hacking distraction arises
PHILADELPHIA - Fresh off a spirited convention, Hillary Clinton told prospective voters Friday they face a “stark choice” in November and pressed ahead with the scalding rhetoric against h...
Jul 29, 2016
Pope visits Auschwitz, begs God to forgive "so much cruelty"
OSWIECIM, Poland - Choosing silence to convey his sorrow, Pope Francis visited the former Nazi death factory at Auschwitz and Birkenau on Friday, meeting with concentration camp survivors as well as a...
Jul 29, 2016
Minority Dem delegates frustrated with 'Bernie or Bust'
PHILADELPHIA - As most Democrats rally around Hillary Clinton, the lingering “Bernie or Bust” movement is stirring frustration at the party’s convention among delegates of colour, wh...
Jul 29, 2016
2 dozen Chinese relatives of MH370 passengers stage protest
BEIJING - About two dozen Chinese relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Friday staged a small protest outside China’s Foreign Ministry calling on governments...
Jul 28, 2016
Indonesia executes 4 people convicted of drug crimes
CILACAP, Indonesia - Indonesia executed four people convicted of drug crimes on Friday despite international protests and said it would decide later when as many as 10 others are put to death. One Ind...
Jul 28, 2016
