Category Archives: CP_World
Trump's shutdown solution hangs in limbo
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s proposal to break through the budget deadlock appeared to be gaining little traction Monday, as another missed paycheque loomed for hundreds of thousands of...
Jan 21, 2019
Frigid air, high winds sweep the Northeast; at least 7 dead
CONCORD, N.H. - Falling temperatures replaced the weekend’s falling snow Monday as bitter cold and gusty winds swept across the eastern United States. The National Weather Service had forecast t...
Jan 21, 2019
Indian police investigate suspected people smuggling to NZ
NEW DELHI - Police in southern India are investigating a suspected attempt to illegally transport scores of Indians on an overcrowded boat to New Zealand. The additional superintendent of police in Ke...
Jan 21, 2019
UN forecasts global economic growth around 3 per cent in 2019
The global economy will grow around 3 per cent annually in 2019 and 2020, but waning support for multilateralism, escalating trade disputes, increasing debt and rising climate risks are clouding prosp...
Jan 21, 2019
Inside a big top, Dior puts on circus-themed couture
PARIS - Dior drew inspiration from the top of the big top for a playful couture show held Monday in Paris, where models inside a circus-style tent walked through a human arch made of moving acrobats. ...
Jan 21, 2019
Kamala Harris opens presidential bid
WASHINGTON - Kamala Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump’s nominees, entered the Democratic presidenti...
Jan 21, 2019
Israel increasingly goes public with its strikes in Syria
JERUSALEM - Israel on Monday claimed responsibility for a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets in Syria, drifting further away from its longstanding policy of playing down or covering up i...
Jan 21, 2019
Reinvented legacy: Nazi's paintings fund foundation for Jews
BERLIN - When Hilde Schramm inherited several paintings collected by her father, Hitler’s chief architect and Armaments Minister Albert Speer, she was only sure of one thing: she didn’t wa...
Jan 21, 2019
Taliban attack Afghan military base, killing 12
KABUL - A Taliban assault on a military base and police training centre in a province just outside the Afghan capital on Monday killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 30, officials said. Sale...
Jan 21, 2019
UK leader unveils Brexit Plan B, looks a lot like Plan A
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled her Brexit Plan B on Monday - and it looks a lot like Plan A. May launched a mission to resuscitate her rejected European Union divorce deal, setti...
Jan 21, 2019