Category Archives: World
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's theory about Mexico, trade, that wall
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has come up with a theory about how Mexico, by hook or by crook, really is paying for his border wall despite saying a thousand times no. TRUMP: “I often stat...
Dec 14, 2018
Michael Cohen claims Trump knew hush money payments wrong
WASHINGTON - Shaken and facing a prison term, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer said Friday that Trump directed him to buy the silence of two women during the 2016 campaign becau...
Dec 14, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Trump falsely claims Flynn didn't lie to FBI
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is skimming over the facts when it comes to former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea for lying in the Russia investigation. In remarks Thu...
Dec 14, 2018
Trump invokes 'advice-of-counsel' defence in campaign probe
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump offered a simple defence Thursday to accusations he broke campaign finance law by directing attorney Michael Cohen to orchestrate hush-money payments to conceal Trump...
Dec 14, 2018
Lebanese wary as Israel destroys Hezbollah border tunnels
MAYS AL-JABAL, Lebanon - As Israeli excavators dug into the rocky hills along the frontier with a Lebanese village, a crowd of young Lebanese men gathered to watch. The mood was light as the crowd obs...
Dec 14, 2018
Himalayan nation Nepal gets first modern train tracks
JANAKPUR, Nepal - The competition between two Asian giants, India and China, for influence over tiny Nepal is yielding a bonanza in the form of the Himalayan mountain nation’s first modern railw...
Dec 14, 2018
Serbia talks up armed intervention as Kosovo OKs new army
PRISTINA, Kosovo - Serbia threatened a possible armed intervention in Kosovo after the Kosovo parliament on Friday overwhelmingly approved the formation of an army. Belgrade called the move a “d...
Dec 14, 2018
'Young miracle:' Baby recovers from Ebola in Congo outbreak
JOHANNESBURG - They call her the “young miracle.” A baby who was admitted to an Ebola treatment centre just six days after birth has now recovered from the virus. Congo’s health mini...
Dec 14, 2018
Death row inmate seeks execution; judge to decide competency
JACKSON, Miss. - A Mississippi judge will decide whether a death row inmate who says he wants to be executed is mentally competent to waive all his appeals. The state Supreme Court on Thursday ordered...
Dec 14, 2018
CNN: Anchor promptly made on-air correction about Arpaio
PHOENIX - Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio alleged in a defamation lawsuit earlier this week against three news organizations that CNN made no effort to correct anchor Chris Cuomo’s erroneous statement...
Dec 14, 2018