Category Archives: World
Pregnant woman not allowed to board Disney cruise ship
MIAMI - Disney Cruise Lines prevented a Missouri woman from boarding one of its ships because she is 25 weeks pregnant. Emily Jackson and her family arrived in Miami last week after her doctor had cle...
Apr 03, 2018
India withdraws sweeping new rule clamping down on fake news
NEW DELHI - India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday withdrew a sweeping new order clamping down on journalists accused of spreading fake news. The U-turn came hours after the...
Apr 03, 2018
Egypt's election produces surprise runner-up: Invalid votes
CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s victory in last week’s election was never in doubt, but the vote produced a surprise runner-up - an unusually large number of invalid bal...
Apr 03, 2018
Argentine drought hits farmers hard, undermining economy
PERGAMINO, Argentina - Jorge Josifovich is silent and downcast as he walks under the pounding sun in one of Argentina’s most fertile agricultural regions, staring at soy crops parched by the cou...
Apr 03, 2018
French strikes cause railway chaos and challenge Macron
PARIS - A major French railway strike brought the country’s famed high-speed trains to a halt Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded or scrambling for other options - and posing the biggest test s...
Apr 03, 2018
Market still waiting for Spotify's first public trade
SAN FRANCISCO - Spotify is still waiting to find out whether investors view its music streaming service as a budding superstar or a flash in the pan. The Swedish company will make its stock market deb...
Apr 03, 2018
Judge to decide if Nazi 'troll storm' is protected speech
MISSOULA, Mont. - Attorneys for a neo-Nazi website publisher and a Montana woman will ask a judge Tuesday to decide whether the white nationalist had a First Amendment right to unleash a “troll ...
Apr 03, 2018
Migrant caravan, raising concerns in US, halts in Mexico
MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico - The caravan of Central American migrants that angered U.S. President Donald Trump was sidelined at a sports field in southern Mexico with no means of reaching the border even a...
Apr 03, 2018
Demi Lovato ends US tour in seductive kiss with Kehlani
NEWARK, N.J. - Demi Lovato ended the U.S. leg of her “Tell Me You Love Me” tour in a seductive kiss with her opening act Kehlani. Kehlani sneaked on stage in Newark on Monday night and gra...
Apr 03, 2018
British show's take on rendang curry riles Southeast Asians
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Judges on a popular British cooking show are being ridiculed for ignorance of Asian food after insisting a Malaysian contestant’s chicken rendang curry should have been cris...
Apr 03, 2018