Category Archives: CP_World
Putin says Trump foes harm US with Russia collusion probes
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Thursday the U.S. is only hurting itself with investigations of alleged collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, and the Kremlin lea...
Dec 14, 2017
Palestinians, a large Jerusalem minority, feel Trump snub
JERUSALEM - Pedestrians walk on a thick layer of soot from tires set ablaze in frequent clashes with Israeli troops. Cars navigate around potholes in streets littered with garbage. Motorists honk in a...
Dec 14, 2017
Space capsule with 3 astronauts returns to Earth
MOSCOW - Three astronauts returned to Earth on Thursday after nearly six months aboard the International Space Station, landing on the snow-covered steppes outside of a remote town in Kazakhstan. A Ru...
Dec 14, 2017
Aid group: At least 6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar
BANGKOK - International aid group Doctors Without Borders said its field survey has found at least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed between August and September in a crackdown by Myanmar’s sec...
Dec 14, 2017
South Korean President Moon in China on visit to repair ties
BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping told his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in on Thursday that Beijing wants to improve ties that have nosedived over China’s objections to the deployment ...
Dec 14, 2017
South Africa's famed ANC risks split in choosing new leader
JOHANNESBURG - The stakes for Africa’s oldest liberation movement have rarely been higher. As thousands of delegates from the ruling African National Congress party meet this weekend to choose a...
Dec 14, 2017
UN chief: Iran may be defying UN on missiles, OK on nukes
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that Iran may be defying a U.N. call to halt ballistic missile development even as it complies with the nuclear deal with six world powers. The U.N. chief...
Dec 14, 2017
Fears rise over LGBT discrimination in conservative Paraguay
ASUNCION, Paraguay - Mariana Sepulveda has been stabbed on the street, detained by police and expelled from her high school - all for being transgender in Paraguay, one of the most sexually conservati...
Dec 14, 2017
Hayek says rebuffing Weinstein led to nightmare on 'Frida'
NEW YORK - In one of the most vivid accounts yet of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged abuse and harassment, Salma Hayek says the disgraced movie mogul turned the making of her 2002 passion project, the...
Dec 14, 2017
FCC votes along party lines to end 'net neutrality'
In a vote along party lines, the federal government has ended sweeping net-neutrality rules that guaranteed equal access to the internet. The Thursday vote at the Federal Communications Commission wil...
Dec 14, 2017