Category Archives: World
Merkel defends Germany's trade surplus as US trade war looms
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the country’s trade surplus Saturday, saying the government is working to encourage domestic demand but that not all factors are under its contr...
Mar 17, 2018
McCabe kept memos on Trump dealings; Mueller now has them
WASHINGTON - Andrew McCabe, the onetime FBI deputy director long scorned by President Donald Trump and just fired by the attorney general, kept personal memos detailing interactions with the president...
Mar 17, 2018
US probes 4 deaths in Hyundai-Kia cars when air bags failed
DETROIT - Air bags in some Hyundai and Kia cars failed to inflate in crashes and four people are dead. Now the U.S. government’s road safety agency wants to know why. The National Highway Traffi...
Mar 17, 2018
Sweden, North Korea end 3 days of talks on security issues
STOCKHOLM - Sweden’s foreign minister concluded three days of talks Saturday with her North Korean counterpart, saying they discussed the “opportunities and challenges for continued diplom...
Mar 17, 2018
Greece: 16 migrants die as smuggling boat sinks in Aegean
ATHENS, Greece - A smuggling boat sank Saturday off a Greek island, killing at least 16 migrants including children, and a search-and-rescue operation was underway to find two others believed missing....
Mar 17, 2018
Russia expels 23 UK envoys, blames others for spy poisoning
MOSCOW - Russia announced Saturday it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further retaliatory measures in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain...
Mar 17, 2018
White House pushes back against reports of tumult, purges
WASHINGTON - The White House is pushing back against talk of a staffing purge, insisting that reports of tumult and imminent departures are overblown. Chief of staff John Kelly, himself the subject of...
Mar 16, 2018
Xi Jinping reappointed China's president with no term limits
BEIJING - China’s rubber-stamp legislature on Saturday unanimously approved the reappointment of Xi Jinping as president with no limit on the number of terms he can serve. The National People...
Mar 16, 2018
Sessions fires former FBI Deputy Director McCabe
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday that he had fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, a regular target of President Donald Trump’s anger and criticism, just two day...
Mar 16, 2018
Girlfriend waits for word of missing chemical plant worker
CRESSON, Texas - Amber Gutierrez repeatedly dialed the cellphone number of her boyfriend on Friday, hoping that the man missing after a Texas chemical plant exploded would answer or rescuers would hea...
Mar 16, 2018