Category Archives: CP_World
Man with knife at Amsterdam airport is not terror case
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A man was shot in the leg at Amsterdam’s busy Schiphol Airport on Friday after he walked into a military police office and threatened staff with a knife, a spokesman for...
Dec 15, 2017
Peter Jackson's Weinstein story opens old wounds for Sorvino
NEW YORK - Director Peter Jackson says he is now realizing that Harvey Weinstein’s advice to avoid working with Mira Sorvino or Ashley Judd was likely part of a smear campaign against the two ac...
Dec 15, 2017
French death toll rises to 5 children in train-bus crash
PARIS - French authorities said one more student died Friday after a regional train sliced open a school bus in southern France, raising the overall death toll to five children. Marseille prosecutor X...
Dec 15, 2017
Putin looks for quick win, but voter apathy worries Kremlin
MOSCOW - Russia’s presidential election campaign formally lasts only three months, and President Vladimir Putin wants to make it as short as possible. With Putin’s approval rating topping ...
Dec 15, 2017
Australian probe into child abuse attacks Catholic celibacy
CANBERRA, Australia - An Australian inquiry into child abuse recommended Friday that the Catholic Church lift its demand of celibacy from clergy and that priests be prosecuted for failing to report ev...
Dec 15, 2017
Germany's Social Democrats to talk with Merkel on new gov't
BERLIN - Leaders of Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats agreed Friday to enter exploratory talks on joining or supporting a new government under Chancellor Angela Merkel, moving unprecedented...
Dec 15, 2017
Zimbabwe ruling party seals Mugabe's fall from grace
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Breaking into cheers and song, Zimbabwe’s ruling party on Friday sealed the fate of Robert Mugabe, a man they had revered for decades but removed from power in dramatic scenes...
Dec 15, 2017
NATO concerned Russian missile system breaks Cold War pact
BRUSSELS - NATO said Friday that it is concerned about a Russian missile system that could carry nuclear warheads, and which it says could violate a landmark Cold War arms treaty. The U.S.-led militar...
Dec 15, 2017
Russia to resume flights to Egypt, halted after 2015 bombing
MOSCOW - Russia and Egypt signed a deal on Friday to resume flights between Moscow and the Egyptian capital of Cairo starting from February, after more than a two-year break, officials announced. Mosc...
Dec 15, 2017
Ex-Russian minister jailed for 8 years in sting case
MOSCOW - Russia’s former economics minister was handed an eight-year prison sentence Friday after being convicted of accepting a $2 million bribe from one of President Vladimir Putin’s top...
Dec 15, 2017