Category Archives: World
Verizon takes over Yahoo to complete $4.5 billion deal
SAN FRANCISCO - Verizon has taken over Yahoo, completing a $4.5 billion deal that will usher in a new management team to attempt to wring more advertising revenue from one of the internet’s best...
Jun 13, 2017
NBC moving ahead with Megyn Kelly interview with Alex Jones
NEW YORK - NBC News is moving ahead with plans to air Megyn Kelly’s interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones this weekend despite a backlash that has cost the show advertisers and led to Ke...
Jun 13, 2017
Lady Brexit meets Monsieur Europe: May, Macron hold talks
PARIS - She wants to escape the European Union, he wants to embolden it. British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron held talks Tuesday from opposite sides of the Brexit fr...
Jun 13, 2017
EU launches legal action against 3 countries over refugees
BRUSSELS - The European Commission on Wednesday launched legal action against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for failing to respect their commitment to take in refugees. The Commission, which ...
Jun 13, 2017
Father of freed student says son was 'brutalized' by captors
WYOMING, Ohio - The father of an American college student released by North Korea and now hospitalized in a coma says his son was “brutalized” by his captors. Fred Warmbier told Fox News&#...
Jun 13, 2017
French Spiderman climbs 29-story Spanish hotel without ropes
BARCELONA, Spain - French urban climber Alain Robert has scaled a 29-story hotel in Barcelona with his bare hands and in just 20 minutes. Footage released Tuesday showed 54-year-old Robert, who is kno...
Jun 13, 2017
Van rams cab in Stockholm; police say not terror-related
STOCKHOLM - Swedish police arrested a man suspected of driving a van that rammed into a cab in central Stockholm Tuesday, in what police said was apparently not a terrorist incident. Police said the t...
Jun 13, 2017
Tillerson warns against steps that cut off talks with Russia
WASHINGTON - The U.S. relationship with Russia is at an all-time low and deteriorating further, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday, yet he cautioned against taking steps that might close of...
Jun 13, 2017
Trump supporters turn on special counsel Mueller
WASHINGTON - High-profile supporters of President Donald Trump are turning on special counsel Robert Mueller, the man charged with investigating Russian interference in the U.S. election and possible ...
Jun 13, 2017
Lawmakers demand new strategy for 16-year Afghan war
WASHINGTON - Senators sharply criticized Pentagon leaders Tuesday for not completing a new strategy for the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, as Defence Secretary Jim Mattis acknowledged that “the...
Jun 13, 2017