Category Archives: CP_World
Sudan under al-Bashir: Long history of turmoil, conflicts
CAIRO - Street protests against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir show no sign of abating. A growing number of his former allies are clamouring for his departure. None of his friends in the regio...
Jan 03, 2019
Apple drops iPhone bombshell on already reeling stock market
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple acknowledged that demand for iPhones is waning, confirming investor fears that the company’s most profitable product has lost some of its lustre. The reckoning came in a le...
Jan 03, 2019
NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman
LAUREL, Md. - A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman...
Jan 03, 2019
Mexico finds Flayed god temple; priests wore skins of dead
MEXICO CITY - Mexican experts have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse, authorities said Wednesday. Mexico’s National Insti...
Jan 03, 2019
Californian sailor welcomes discovery of yacht in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - Californian solo sailor Abby Sunderland said on Thursday her “heart skipped a beat” with news that the yacht she abandoned in the remote Indian Ocean in 2010 during a...
Jan 03, 2019
Republicans worry a primary challenge would hurt Trump
NEW YORK - Donald Trump declared himself “the most popular president in the history of the Republican Party” on Wednesday. Yet his allies fear a primary challenge from a high-profile Repub...
Jan 03, 2019
Saudi Arabia says 5 face death penalty in Khashoggi killing
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday it will seek the death penalty against five suspects in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a killing that has se...
Jan 03, 2019
Lawyers try to seize Japanese assets over Korean forced work
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Lawyers for South Koreans forced into wartime labour have taken legal steps to seize the South Korean assets of a Japanese company they are trying to pressure into followin...
Jan 03, 2019
Mexican man charged with killing cop gets mental health exam
MODESTO, Calif. - A Mexican national accused of living in the U.S. illegally was charged with murder Wednesday in the shooting death of a California police officer who pulled him over to check if he w...
Jan 03, 2019
Sheriff: Unknown if race was factor in Texas girl's slaying
HOUSTON - Authorities in Texas continue to investigate what prompted a weekend shooting that killed a 7-year-old black girl after activists on Wednesday claimed the incident was racially motivated. Ha...
Jan 03, 2019