Category Archives: World
Winter took smaller bite from 2015 economy than it appeared
WASHINGTON - It turns out the U.S. economy can withstand a cold snap after all. In early 2015, near-record-low temperatures and howling snowstorms in the Northeast appeared to keep shoppers indoors an...
Jul 29, 2016
US GDP grows a weak 1.2 per cent in second quarter
WASHINGTON - Growth in the U.S. economy was sluggish again in the spring, dashing expectations for a robust rebound after a tough winter. Stronger consumer spending was offset by weakness in housing c...
Jul 29, 2016
Search ending for missing Canadian fisherman in western NY
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The United States Coast Guard is ending its search for an Ontario fisherman whose boat washed ashore in the United States earlier this week. Commander Tad Drozdowski cites the amount o...
Jul 29, 2016
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
