Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed Friday to co-operate with the special counsel’s Trump-Russia investigation as he pleaded guilty to feder...

JOHANNESBURG - Hurricane Florence has grounded the Falcon. Anthony Mackie, the actor who has played the superhero in Marvel movies, cancelled a scheduled appearance at Comic Con Africa in South Africa...

LOS ANGELES - Julie Chen returned to television with an unusual sign-off days after her husband, Les Moonves, resigned as the CEO of CBS after sexual misconduct allegations. The 48-year-old ended Thur...

NASHVILLE - A Nashville prosecutor who was the son-in-law of country music star Alan Jackson has died in a fall in Florida. Citing a Davidson County District’s Attorney’s Office release, n...

LONDON - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned Friday that developments surrounding Brexit are “the most significant influences” on the economic outlook for Britain. A day after he r...

WASHINGTON - U.S. industrial production rose by a healthy 0.4 per cent in August, boosted by gains in the production of autos, oil and natural gas. The Federal Reserve said Friday that industrial prod...

WASHINGTON - U.S. retail sales barely rose in August as consumers slowed their spending after a robust month of shopping in July. The Commerce Department said Friday that the value of purchases ticked...

CAIRO - In a remote pocket of northern Yemen, many families with starving children have nothing to eat but the leaves of a local vine, boiled into a sour, acidic green paste. International aid agencie...

TEHRAN, Iran - A top adviser to Iran’s president on human rights said that the government “failed” to help a U.S. permanent resident imprisoned over spying allegations that she perso...

WASHINGTON - As Tropical Storm Florence inundated the Carolinas on Friday, President Donald Trump circled back to his claim that the official death toll from a devastating storm a year earlier in Puer...