Category Archives: World
Troop deployment creates tense atmosphere on US border
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - As the first active-duty military troops sent to the U.S. border with Mexico installed coils of razor wire on a bridge and a riverbank Friday, a sense of unease spread across Texa...
Nov 02, 2018
Alec Baldwin charged with assault in alleged parking dispute
NEW YORK - Alec Baldwin was arrested Friday and charged with assault and harassment after allegedly striking a man in the face during a dispute over a parking spot outside his New York City home, auth...
Nov 02, 2018
Starbucks app outage adds to long lines
NEW YORK - Starbucks customers had to wait in long lines Friday to get their caffeine fix after an outage of its app made mobile orders impossible. The coffee chain says it is experiencing a “te...
Nov 02, 2018
Latinas are on the march in Florida ahead of Election Day
ORLANDO, Fla. - Some high-powered Latinas are on the march in Florida, campaigning in two largely Latino neighbourhoods the weekend for Election Day. Actresses America Ferrera, Eva Longoria, Gina Rodr...
Nov 02, 2018
US restores Iran sanctions lifted under Obama nuclear deal
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday announced the reimposition of all U.S. sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, ramping up economic pressure on the Islamic R...
Nov 02, 2018
Kanye West tweets he's dropping politics, writes big check
CHICAGO - Hip-hop megastar Kanye West told his Twitter followers that he was “distancing” himself from politics even as he sent a big check to boost a Democratic mayoral hopeful in his hom...
Nov 02, 2018
Prince Charles, Camilla land in Ghana on second Africa stop
ACCRA, Ghana - Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived in Ghana for the second stop of their West African tour. The royals landed Friday afternoon in Accra where the...
Nov 02, 2018
Migrants in southern Mexico set sights on town near Gulf
MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico - The main caravan of Central American migrants spent a rain-drenched night outside before continuing their slow walk through southern Mexico, on a path that is taking them towar...
Nov 02, 2018
Python presents slithery situation at Texas Goodwill store
FORT WORTH, Texas - A Goodwill worker collecting clothes and other items at a Texas sorting centre was surprised to find an albino python clinging to the side of a bin. The python was huddled in a pil...
Nov 02, 2018
Pakistan's 'father of Taliban' cleric killed in knife attack
ISLAMABAD - Prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, also known as the “father of the Taliban,” was killed in a knife attack at his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday,...
Nov 02, 2018