Category Archives: World
Greece's creditors approve debt relief package
ATHENS, Greece - A eurozone bailout fund has approved the implementation of a major debt relief plan for Greece that it says would provide the crisis-scarred country significant savings over several d...
Nov 22, 2018
Thanksgiving parade recognizes music great Aretha Franklin
DETROIT - Aretha Franklin’s family members travelled in Ford Mustangs to honour the late music great and a high school marching band performed her signature tunes Thursday during Detroit’s...
Nov 22, 2018
Dutch king visits renewed Anne Frank House museum
AMSTERDAM - Dutch King Willem-Alexander visited the Anne Frank House museum Thursday after a two-year reboot to give the building a new entrance hall, redesigned exhibition spaces and a new way of tel...
Nov 22, 2018
Money laundering: Dutch police find cash in washing machine
AMSTERDAM - Dutch police who found 350,000 euros ($400,000) hidden inside a washing machine have detained a man on suspicion of - what else? - money laundering. Police said in a statement Thursday tha...
Nov 22, 2018
19-year-old Yorkshire Terrier retires from 'The Nutcracker'
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - After more than 125 performances in “The Nutcracker” in Providence, a 19-year-old Yorkshire Terrier named Archie is leaving the stage. Festival Ballet Providence announc...
Nov 22, 2018
Nissan board fires Ghosn as chairman following arrest
TOKYO - Nissan Motor Co. fired Carlos Ghosn as chairman Thursday, curtailing the powerful executive’s nearly two-decade reign at the Japanese automaker after his arrest for alleged financial imp...
Nov 22, 2018
Long, tortured road to Trump's answers for special counsel
WASHINGTON - The date had been picked, the location too, and the plan was penciled in: President Donald Trump would be whisked from the White House to Camp David on a quiet winter Saturday to answer q...
Nov 22, 2018
Trump says CIA has not found Saudi prince culpable in murder
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday disputed that U.S. intelligence officials had concluded that the de facto leader of American ally Saudi Arabia ordered the killing of a U.S.-based journ...
Nov 22, 2018
Fire evacuees do their best on a sad Thanksgiving
CHICO, Calif. - Patty Rough lost her Paradise home and most of her belongings in the Camp Fire, and she had no place to cook a family meal on Thanksgiving. But she and her husband are safe, and she wa...
Nov 22, 2018
Indian island police struggle to get body of American
NEW DELHI - Indian authorities were struggling Thursday to figure out how to recover the body of an American who was killed after wading ashore on an island cut off from the modern world. John Allen C...
Nov 22, 2018