Category Archives: World
300 migrants in Sweden evacuated after 3 arson fires
STOCKHOLM - Three fires in southern Sweden apparently aimed at refugees are being investigated as arson, Swedish authorities said Wednesday. No injuries have been reported and no arrests have been mad...
May 17, 2017
AP Explains: Trump disclosure a breach of trust, if not law
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump didn’t appear to break any law by sharing highly classified information with Russia, but that doesn’t make it any less problematic for America’s i...
May 17, 2017
Intel sharing at heart of US, Europe talks on laptop ban
BRUSSELS - The intelligence behind plans to broaden a U.S. ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from Europe took centre stage on Wednesday as American and European officials met to d...
May 17, 2017
Chelsea Manning 'looking forward to so much' after release
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, spared by presidential clemency from the rest of a 35-year prison term for giving classified materials to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, stepped out of a...
May 17, 2017
Australia considers banning laptops from airliner cabins
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia is considering following the United States and Britain in banning laptops from inbound airliner cabins, the prime minister said, but declined to explain whether the mov...
May 17, 2017
Police: Drunken driving suspect had lizard in bra
TAUNTON, Mass. - Police in Massachusetts say a bearded dragon lizard was turned over to animal control after a woman suspected of drunken driving revealed she had the animal stuffed in her bra. Taunto...
May 17, 2017
China rappers to Seoul: 'Big brother' opposes missile shield
BEIJING - A rap group backed by China’s government is warning South Korea in a music video that “you’re going too far” with the deployment of a U.S. missile defence system, as ...
May 16, 2017
Gov. Cuomo to host final tasting for craft beer contest
ALBANY, N.Y. - Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a panel of judges will decide New York’s favourite craft beer with a blind taste test. The final tasting of the Taste NY Inaugural Craft Beer Chal...
May 16, 2017
2 dead after tornadoes hit Oklahoma, Wisconsin
CHICAGO - One person was killed when a tornado swept into a mobile home park in Wisconsin Tuesday and another person died when a twister hit a housing subdivision in Oklahoma, as a massive severe stor...
May 16, 2017
Fox News' Guilfoyle up for White House press secretary job
NEW YORK - Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle is in conversations with the Trump administration about replacing Sean Spicer as White House press secretary. The former first lady of San Francisco told th...
May 16, 2017