Category Archives: World
Chemical watchdog backs UK: Nerve agent poisoned spy Skripal
LONDON - The international chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday confirmed Britain’s finding that a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent, as Russia continued to d...
Apr 12, 2018
Child's rape, killing in India mired in religious politics
SRINAGAR, India - The girl, just 8 years old, was grazing her family’s ponies on a chilly January day in the forests of the Himalayan foothills when she was kidnapped. Her raped and mutilated bo...
Apr 12, 2018
Construction is booming in North Korea, but who's paying?
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Beachfront, five-star hotels? Skyscrapers just blocks from Kim Il Sung Square? North Korea is racing forward with major development projects s...
Apr 12, 2018
Pakistan arrests man in shooting death of singer at party
KARACHI, Pakistan - Police in Pakistan have arrested a man accused of fatally shooting a pregnant singer as she performed at a party held by a wealthy landlord. Local police chief Hazoor Baksh Junejo ...
Apr 12, 2018
Another Trump trade war, this time with Rwanda over clothes
KAMPALA, Uganda - The sweaty mechanic tossed aside the used jeans one by one, digging deep through the pile of secondhand clothes that are at the centre of another, if little-noticed, Trump administra...
Apr 12, 2018
Missouri governor mirrors Trump in quest to survive scandal
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Facing mounting calls to resign following sexual misconduct allegations, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens appears to be taking a cue from President Donald Trump as he fights for his p...
Apr 12, 2018
Guard faces tricky dance in California border mission
SAN DIEGO - California Gov. Jerry Brown is crystal clear that his National Guard will help President Trump go after drugs and thugs on the Mexican border, but not immigrants. Drawing that line may be ...
Apr 12, 2018
Anchorage voters are 1st in US to defeat 'bathroom bill'
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Voters in Alaska’s largest city have become the first in the U.S. to defeat a so-called bathroom bill referendum that asked them to require people to use public bathrooms and...
Apr 12, 2018
Guitar makers hit hard by new regulations on prized rosewood
CONCORD, N.H. - An international crackdown on illegal logging in tropical forests has ensnared the makers of some guitars and other musical instruments, whose top-end products require small amounts of...
Apr 12, 2018
In opioid epidemic, some cities strain to afford OD antidote
BALTIMORE - On a Baltimore street corner, public health workers hand out a life-saving overdose antidote to residents painfully familiar with the ravages of America’s opioid epidemic. But the tr...
Apr 12, 2018