Category Archives: World
In Panama City's booming colonial core, locals fight to stay
PANAMA CITY - Esther Marina Sanchez has watched her neighbourhood - the heart of Panama City - transformed by its designation as a UNESCO world heritage site. Tourists and well-heeled Panamanians now ...
Jul 30, 2018
2 Italian artists leave Israel after arrest over mural
JERUSALEM - Two Italian artists, arrested over the weekend for painting a large mural of a formerly imprisoned teenage Palestinian protester on Israel’s West Bank separation barrier, left Israel...
Jul 30, 2018
Hundreds stranded on Indonesian mountain after earthquake
SEMBALUN, Indonesia - Hundreds of tourists stranded on Mount Rinjani on the Indonesian island of Lombok by an earthquake that killed 16 people and triggered landslides are making their way off the mou...
Jul 30, 2018
Investigators can't rule out 'interference' in loss of MH370
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - A Malaysian-led independent investigation report released Monday, more than four years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, highlighted shortcomings in the government&...
Jul 30, 2018
Times publisher pressed Trump on 'anti-press rhetoric'
WASHINGTON - The publisher of The New York Times says he took President Donald Trump to task for “deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric” that is “not just divisive but increasingly da...
Jul 30, 2018
Trump officials predict sustained growth in the economy
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s top economic policymakers insisted that the robust growth marked in the April-June quarter will maintain its pace and that he respects the Federal Reserve&#...
Jul 30, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's 'historic' economic gains, 2016 myths
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump exaggerated his role in boosting U.S. economic growth, falsely claiming full credit for positive economic news and inaccurately declaring a “historic” t...
Jul 30, 2018
At Stoneman Douglas, football season comes with heavy hearts
PARKLAND, Fla. - The first practice of the new season was over, and the only sound on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was dozens of football players screaming in delight. It was 2:1...
Jul 30, 2018
Madonna to celebrate 60th birthday with Malawi fundraiser
NEW YORK - Madonna is celebrating her upcoming 60th birthday with a fundraiser for orphans and children in Malawi. The singer tells The Associated Press she’s teaming with Facebook for the fundr...
Jul 30, 2018
Australian bishop convicted of sex abuse coverup resigns
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of an Australian archbishop convicted in criminal court of covering up the sexual abuse of children by a priest, taking action after comi...
Jul 30, 2018