Category Archives: CP_World

Body visible in wreckage of plane carrying soccer player
LONDON - One body is visible in the seabed wreckage of a plane that went missing carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot two weeks ago, air accident investigators said Monday. Sal...
Feb 04, 2019

Iran's revolutionaries have mixed feelings, 40 years later
TEHRAN, Iran - Forty years after he defected from the shah’s Imperial Guard to join the Islamic Revolution, Mohammad Reza Tajik, like many Iranians from that time, looks back wistfully at the yo...
Feb 04, 2019

Some lofty goals from 2018 State of Union speech still unmet
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump whiffed on some lofty goals that he laid out in last year’s State of the Union address, most notably his call for an overhaul of immigration laws and a “...
Feb 04, 2019

Deadly car bomb blast in Somalia's capital, say police
NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalia’s homegrown extremist rebels, al-Shabab, have claimed responsibility for a car bomb explosion on Monday that killed at least seven people in Somalia’s capital. Al-...
Feb 04, 2019
Hamburg Airport staff strike forces flight cancellations
BERLIN - A strike by the ground staff at Germany’s Hamburg Airport has caused the cancellation of more than 50 flights. The ver.di labour union called ground staff out on a one-day strike starti...
Feb 04, 2019

Man leading search for Sala's plane says wreckage found
LONDON - The wreckage of the plane carrying soccer player Emiliano Sala was located on Sunday, two weeks after it disappeared from radar over the English Channel, according to the marine scientist lea...
Feb 04, 2019
France launches airstrikes at armed Libyan group in Chad
PARIS - France’s Defence Ministry says French armed forces have intervened in northern Chad and launched airstrikes at an armed group coming in from Libya. The operation took place Sunday and wa...
Feb 04, 2019
EU countries step up pressure on Venezuela's defiant Maduro
LISBON, Portugal - A key group of European Union countries endorsed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president on Monday, piling the pressure on embattled Presid...
Feb 04, 2019

Super Bowl ads heavy on humour, surprises and ... robots
NEW YORK - This year’s Super Bowl ads went heavy on the humour - and surprises. Take, for instance, Jason Bateman’s Hyundai ad about an elevator with unpleasantness on every floor. A surpr...
Feb 03, 2019

Patriots beat Rams 13-3 in lowest scoring Super Bowl ever
ATLANTA - That super shootout everyone expected turned into a defensive standoff. The New England Patriots showed they can win that type of championship game, too. So after Tom Brady led one classic d...
Feb 03, 2019