Category Archives: World

Missouri officer killed, 2 hurt when sent to wrong house
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Missouri police officer who was shot and killed and two others who were wounded had been sent to the wrong house following a 911 call, authorities said Wednesday. Missouri Highway...
Mar 07, 2018
Putin praises Trump, says US political system eating itself
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on President Donald Trump, but added that he was sorely disappointed with the U.S. political system, saying that it has been “eating its...
Mar 07, 2018
Bleak Women's Day in South Sudan, where #MeToo has no impact
JUBA, South Sudan - Wiping tears from her cheeks, the young woman describes how she has resorted to prostitution to feed her children. When South Sudan’s civil war broke out in 2013, her family ...
Mar 07, 2018

Tillerson aims to show US cares despite Trump's Africa slur
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - President Donald Trump hasn’t spoken much about Africa, and what he’s said has been far from flattering. It falls to his top diplomat, on his first official visit t...
Mar 07, 2018
Puerto Ricans still stranded in hotels 6 months after storm
From the lobby of a hotel on the outskirts of Boston, Jesenia Flores fills out an online job application, hoping to find work that will get her small family back to normal for the first time since Hur...
Mar 07, 2018
Confessions brought relief, but now killer set to walk free
TOLEDO, Ohio - One of two brothers who admitted stalking, raping and killing young women during a string of eight murders in the 1980s is close to walking out of prison. Nathaniel Cook confessed to th...
Mar 07, 2018
Hops and hopes: Female brewers toast Women's Day
Female brewers worldwide are raising a stein to International Women’s Day. Thousands of women in the beer business and female homebrewers are brewing together around the event, which falls on Th...
Mar 07, 2018
Texas primary turnout buoys Democrats' hopes again
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas is the latest place where Democrats are finding optimism for 2018 after kicking off the nation’s primary election season with their biggest midterm turnout in more than a q...
Mar 07, 2018

Democrats would reverse some tax cuts to fund infrastructure
WASHINGTON - For Senate Democrats, voting against the Republican tax cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law wasn’t opposition enough. Now they have a plan to reverse some of the tax br...
Mar 07, 2018
Pennsylvania vote to test labour's strength and loyalty
PITTSBURGH - The fight for the hearts and minds of America’s labour unions is raging in western Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden has suddenly stopped smiling. In the midst of a speech to boost Demo...
Mar 07, 2018