Category Archives: CP_World
China to ease curbs on foreign business in finance, autos
BEIJING - China will ease restrictions on foreign ownership stakes in the financial sector and reduce tariffs on automotive imports, a senior Chinese official said Friday, following criticism from the...
Nov 09, 2017
Pacific trade pact leaders due to meet on new deal
DANANG, Vietnam - Leaders of the countries participating in a Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned by President Donald Trump have agreed to meet and are expected to endorse a basic agreement on moving ahe...
Nov 09, 2017
Jury convicts Marine drill instructor of abusing recruits
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - A Marine Corps drill instructor was guilty of physically abusing a series of young recruits, sometimes while drunk, and focusing his fury on three Muslim-American military volunte...
Nov 09, 2017
France's Macron heads to Riyadh from UAE in surprise trip
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - French President Emmanuel Macron made a surprise trip on Thursday night to Saudi Arabia, saying he wanted to speak to the kingdom’s young, assertive crown prince ab...
Nov 09, 2017
Fox's Smith avoids story covered heavily by colleagues
NEW YORK - While Fox News Channel has spent hours talking about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal in recent weeks, its news anchor Shepard Smith avoided the story entirely. Fresh evidence ...
Nov 09, 2017
Scores more Saudis detained in $100 billion corruption sweep
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Dozens more people have been taken into custody by Saudi authorities, the kingdom said Thursday, bringing to 201 the number detained in a sweep that investigators say has uncove...
Nov 09, 2017
Disney hopes for its next blockbuster in newest 'Star Wars'
NEW YORK - Disney’s $4 billion deal for Lucasfilm and “Star Wars” just keeps getting better for the House of Mouse. The company is banking on the latest installments, “The Last...
Nov 09, 2017
Judge jails, sets bail for top lawmaker in Catalonia probe
MADRID - A Spanish judge jailed Catalonia’s top lawmaker Thursday in a rebellion probe stemming from an independence declaration, but set Carme Forcadell’s bail at 150,000 euros ($175,000)...
Nov 09, 2017
City clerk searching for owner of dentures left at polls
PORTLAND, Maine - A city clerk in Maine is looking for the owner of a set of dentures left behind in a polling booth. The Portland Press Herald reports the false teeth were discovered during Tuesday&#...
Nov 09, 2017
How 1-year Trump rally stacks up against other presidents
Donald Trump warned that the stock market was a “big, fat, ugly bubble” just weeks before he was elected. A year later, Wall Street remains on a milestone-shattering run that the president...
Nov 09, 2017