Category Archives: CP_World

Israel Eurovision hero releases song on newfound fame
TEL AVIV, Israel - Israeli pop star Netta Barzilai, winner of last year’s Eurovision song contest, released a new single Friday which she says reflects the highs and lows in the year since her s...
Feb 01, 2019

'Jane the Virgin' creator says finale should bring closure
PASADENA, Calif. - A roundup of news from the Television Critics Association winter meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs. TISSUES, PLEASE Th...
Feb 01, 2019
Facebook says Apple is restoring a key developer tool
NEW YORK - Facebook says Apple is restoring its access to a key development tool that the iPhone maker disabled Wednesday. Late Tuesday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook paid teens and other users wh...
Feb 01, 2019

January was officially Australia's hottest month on record
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia sweltered through its hottest month on record in January and the summer of extremes continued with wildfires razing the drought-parched south and flooding in expanses o...
Feb 01, 2019

In reversal, Trump now says he and intel chiefs in agreement
WASHINGTON - A day after he lashed out at U.S. intelligence agency chiefs over their assessments of global threats, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course and said that he and the intelligenc...
Feb 01, 2019

Jailed Reuters reporters appeal to Myanmar's Supreme Court
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - A lawyer for two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act filed an appeal Friday with the Supreme Court ...
Feb 01, 2019

China greets Lunar New Year with celebrations, travel rush
BEIJING - China is greeting next week’s Lunar New Year with celebrations and a travel rush that will see an estimated 3 billion trips by people around the country. Thousands of passengers toted ...
Feb 01, 2019

Ayatollah Khomeini's family mostly absent from Iran politics
TEHRAN, Iran - His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country’s shah and forever ch...
Feb 01, 2019

Trump, Pelosi remain far apart on the border wall issue
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared that there’ll be no “wall money” in any compromise border security deal as she and President Donald Trump signalled that congress...
Feb 01, 2019

After further (judicial) review: No do-over of Rams-Saints
NEW ORLEANS - A courtroom quest by two New Orleans Saints ticketholders for a full or partial do-over of this year’s NFC championship game because of a blown “no-call” by game offici...
Jan 31, 2019