Category Archives: CP_World
NKorea launches ICBM in possibly its longest-range test yet
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - After 2 1/2 months of relative peace, North Korea launched its most powerful weapon yet early Wednesday, claiming a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile that some...
Nov 28, 2017
U of Illinois art museum to mark World AIDS Day with films
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois’s Champaign-Urbana campus plans to show seven short films to mark World AIDS Day . Officials say the films are about the i...
Nov 28, 2017
STORY REMOVED: BC-US--Alabama Senate-Bannon
EDITORS: The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about former White House adviser Steve Bannon having no plans to campaign for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. Bannon now tells CNN he will att...
Nov 28, 2017
Rich San Francisco homeowners get sold-off street back
SAN FRANCISCO - Residents of an exclusive San Francisco neighbourhood who failed to pay taxes on their private, gated street for two decades got the street back Tuesday after supervisors voted to resc...
Nov 28, 2017
Bali volcano ash drifts 4.7 miles high, airport shut 3rd day
KARANGASEM, Indonesia - An erupting volcano with a deadly history on Indonesia’s Bali, one of the world’s most popular resort islands, has spread drifting ash 7,600 metres (4.7 miles) into...
Nov 28, 2017
GOP shoves tax overhaul ahead; shutdown still a threat
WASHINGTON - Republicans held together and shoved their signature tax overhaul a crucial step ahead Tuesday as wavering GOP senators showed a growing openness. But its fate remained uncertain, and a p...
Nov 28, 2017
Judge sides with Trump's pick to take over consumer agency
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump scored a victory Tuesday when a federal judge refused to block the president’s choice to temporarily run the nation’s top consumer financial watchdog an...
Nov 28, 2017
Libyan cleared of murder charges in Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON - A Libyan militant was convicted Tuesday of terrorism charges stemming from the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. But a federal jury found hi...
Nov 28, 2017
Trump's 'Pocahontas' jab at Navajo event draws blowback
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Families of Native American war veterans and politicians of both major parties are criticizing President Donald Trump for using a White House event honouring Navajo Code Talkers to ...
Nov 28, 2017
Lawmakers back bill to combat 'revenge porn'
WASHINGTON - A group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday to combat online sexual exploitation, just a week after the leak on social media of an explicit photo of a Republican congre...
Nov 28, 2017