Category Archives: World
Denmark prince refuses to be buried next to wife, the queen
COPENHAGEN - The husband of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe is causing a stir in one of the world’s oldest monarchies. Prince Henrik has announced he won’t be buried next to Margrethe in t...
Aug 04, 2017
2 huge Trump murals appear on West Bank barrier
Two murals showing an oversized President Donald Trump have appeared on Israel’s West Bank separation barrier, just yards from where the elusive artist Banksy decorated a hotel earlier this year...
Aug 04, 2017
Trump talked tersely with leaders of Mexico, Australia
WASHINGTON - Transcripts of President Donald Trump’s conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia in January offer new details on how the president parried with the leaders over the po...
Aug 04, 2017
Flynn files new financial form reporting ties to data firm
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, disclosed a brief advisory role with a firm related to a controversial data analysis company that aided the...
Aug 04, 2017
Congress recessing, leaving much undone, tensions with Trump
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers have scattered for their summer recess, leaving behind a slim record of achievements and a steaming President Donald Trump. The president is angry about what the Republican-led ...
Aug 04, 2017
Military scrambles for transgender policy after Trump tweets
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s tweets declaring transgender people unwelcome in the armed forces have plunged the Pentagon into a legal and moral quagmire, sparking a flurry of meetings t...
Aug 04, 2017
UN report details Congo carnage, warns of 'ethnic cleansing'
GENEVA - U.N. human rights investigators warned Friday of ethnic cleansing in central Congo, documenting the recent killings of more than 250 people, including 62 children, in violence with “no ...
Aug 04, 2017
US military: Georgian soldier killed in latest Afghan attack
KABUL - A Taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman rammed his motorcycle into an international convoy, killing a NATO soldier and two Afghan civilians in an attack north of the Afghan capital, the ...
Aug 04, 2017
US confirms airstrike killed al-Shabab commander in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. military on Friday confirmed it killed a high-level commander of the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike in Somalia over the weekend, targeting a man blamed for p...
Aug 04, 2017
With live-fire drill, China warns India not to test Beijing
Beijing is intensifying its warnings to Indian troops to get out of a contested region high in the Himalayas where China, India and Bhutan meet, saying China’s “restraint has its limits...
Aug 04, 2017