Category Archives: World
Powerful storm hits Southern California, flooding highways
LOS ANGELES - The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting key highways after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas where th...
Feb 02, 2019
Trump is latest to give State of Union in time of turmoil
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is the latest chief executive to deliver a State of the Union address at a time of turmoil. But others may have had it even worse. Abraham Lincoln delivered a writt...
Feb 02, 2019
Official: 3 charged in France in Strasbourg attack probe
PARIS - A French judicial official says three people detained over the investigation into the Christmas market attack in Strasbourg that left five dead have been handed preliminary terrorism charges. ...
Feb 02, 2019
French yellow vest protesters condemn injuries, blame police
PARIS - France’s yellow vest protesters were back on the streets Saturday to keep up the pressure on French President Emmanuel Macron’s government and to decry the number of people being i...
Feb 02, 2019
Iran video shows test launch of cruise missile
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s Ministry of Defence has published a video purportedly showing the launch of a new cruise missile, saying it has a 1,350-kilometre (840-mile) range. In the 37-second video o...
Feb 02, 2019
China calls on Washington, Moscow to preserve nuclear treaty
BEIJING - China called Saturday for Washington to negotiate with Russia instead of pulling out of a nuclear arms treaty the Trump administration sees as a restraint on its ability to compete with Beij...
Feb 02, 2019
Russia to pull plug on nuclear arms pact after US does same
MOSCOW - Following in the footsteps of the U.S., Russia will abandon a centerpiece nuclear arms treaty but will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if Washington does so, President Vladimi...
Feb 02, 2019
Country singer Charley Pride focus of 2 PBS projects
PASADENA, Calif. - Paging Terrence Howard. Charley Pride still wants the actor to play him in a movie of the country music star’s life. The project has been discussed for about 10 years. Pride t...
Feb 01, 2019
Bill calls for lifting cap on New Mexico's film incentives
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Incentives aimed at attracting more filmmakers to New Mexico would get a boost under legislation supported by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham as neighbouring Texas and other states con...
Feb 01, 2019
Vice Media to cut 10 per cent of workforce
NEW YORK - Vice Media is cutting 250 jobs globally as it seeks to achieve profitability. It is the latest round of layoffs as the media industry contracts. The cuts affect about 10 per cent of Vice...
Feb 01, 2019