Category Archives: World
Honolulu warns residents after storm swells dam water levels
Honolulu officials said a dam holding 21 million gallons (80 million litres) of water was not in danger of collapsing Thursday, but still warned nearly 10,000 residents downstream that they might need...
Sep 13, 2018
'Threat becomes reality': Florence begins days of rain, wind
WILMINGTON, N.C. - The big slosh has begun, and the consequences could be disastrous. Hurricane Florence’s leading edge battered the Carolina coast Thursday, bending trees and shooting frothy se...
Sep 13, 2018
Uncle: Man killed by officer aspired to St. Lucia leadership
DALLAS - Friends and family on Thursday remembered a man gunned down by a Dallas police officer as a deeply religious 26-year-old accountant who loved to sing and had confided to his uncle that he mig...
Sep 13, 2018
Judge orders compound suspects remain in federal custody
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered five former residents of a ramshackle New Mexico compound to remain jailed amid accusations that a woman in the group declared herself a prophe...
Sep 13, 2018
Ferocious typhoon plows through rain-soaked Philippines
TUGUEGARAO, Philippines - Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines’ northeastern coast early Saturday, its ferocious winds and blinding rain ripping off tin roof sheets and knocking out pow...
Sep 13, 2018
Suu Kyi says handling of Rohingya could have been better
HANOI, Vietnam - In the face of global condemnation, Myanmar’s leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said that the handling of Rohingya Muslims, 700,000 of whom have...
Sep 13, 2018
South Africa uses new tech to fight vicious gun violence
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - As gunshots ring out in one of South Africa’s most dangerous neighbourhoods, a new technology detects the gun’s location and immediately alerts police. South Afri...
Sep 13, 2018
China says Washington asks to resume talks on tariff fight
BEIJING - Washington has invited Beijing to hold new talks on their escalating tariff dispute, the Chinese foreign ministry said Thursday, ahead of a decision by President Donald Trump on whether to r...
Sep 13, 2018
A CBS network shaped by Moonves is challenged without him
NEW YORK - For the past two decades, CBS may just as well have been called the Moonves Broadcasting System. Now it’s time to move on. Moonves, who was ousted over the weekend as head of CBS Corp...
Sep 13, 2018
Russian suspects in poisoning: We were in UK as tourists
MOSCOW - The two Russian men spun an unlikely tale of hapless tourists defeated by grim British weather: They travelled more than 1,000 miles to see England’s famed Salisbury Cathedral but were ...
Sep 13, 2018