Category Archives: World
Egypt extends detention of man held over rainbow flag
CAIRO - Egyptian state security prosecutors have extended the pre-trial detention of a young man arrested on charges of “promoting deviance” after fans waved rainbow flags at a rock concer...
Oct 30, 2017
US consumer spending surged 1 per cent in September
WASHINGTON - Consumers boosted their spending by 1 per cent in September, the biggest gain in eight years. The surge was fueled by robust demand across sectors, especially autos in the wake of recent ...
Oct 30, 2017
Revolutionaries to supernovas: Glamour names women of 2017
NEW YORK - It’s been one epic year for women, a notion definitely not lost on Glamour magazine as it named U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, 27 key facilitators of the Women’s March on Washington a...
Oct 30, 2017
Husband, wife who survived Las Vegas shooting die in crash
LAS VEGAS - A husband and wife from California who survived the mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival died several weeks after the Oct. 1 massacre in an auto crash. The Las Vegas Review-...
Oct 30, 2017
Police: Danish inventor admits dismembering journalist
TALLINN, Estonia - She was a promising young journalist, tested in trouble spots throughout the world, reporting on a Danish inventor famed for building what was thought to be the world’s larges...
Oct 30, 2017
Ex-Trump adviser's guilty plea poised to rattle White House
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump dismissed George Papadopoulos on Tuesday as a “liar” and a mere campaign volunteer, but newly unsealed court papers outline the former adviser’s f...
Oct 30, 2017
German coalition negotiator urges calmer approach
BERLIN - A leading negotiator in talks to form Germany’s next government is urging all involved to “go down a gear” after a stalemate over contentious issues was accompanied by mutua...
Oct 30, 2017
Driver dead, officer shot after police chase on interstate
SENATOBIA, Miss. - Authorities say a Tennessee man shot dead after a high-speed chase in Mississippi was wanted following his wife’s death last week. Forty-six-year-old Eric Higgs was shot after...
Oct 30, 2017
Kenyan president is declared winner of troubled election
NAIROBI, Kenya - President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday was declared the overwhelming winner of a rerun election boycotted by Kenya’s main opposition leader, collecting 98 per cent of the vote but a...
Oct 30, 2017
Seoul: A NKorea nuke test risks radiation leak at test site
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Any future nuclear test by North Korea risks collapsing its mountain test site and triggering a radiation leak, South Korea’s weather agency chief said Monday. The he...
Oct 30, 2017