Category Archives: World
Tech, housing boom creates homeless crisis on West Coast
SEATTLE - In a park in the middle of a leafy, bohemian neighbourhood where homes list for close to $1 million, a tractor’s massive claw scooped up the refuse of the homeless – mattresses, ...
Nov 06, 2017

Brazile strains Dem unity ahead of key gov race in Virginia
WASHINGTON - Democrats are having trouble surmounting differences over the bitter 2016 election amid revelations of a contemplated effort to replace Hillary Clinton as the presidential nominee, deepen...
Nov 06, 2017

Venezuela opposition leader seeks refuge in Chilean embassy
CARACAS, Venezuela - One of Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leaders has sought refuge in the Chilean ambassador’s residence after being targeted for arrest by the Supreme Court. Chil...
Nov 06, 2017

Melania Trump visits Mikimoto, Japan's famed pearl retailer
TOKYO - While her husband chased golf balls with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Japan’s premier course, U.S. first lady Melania Trump focused on a more iridescent sort of orb: pearls. Abe’s ...
Nov 06, 2017
US soldier killed in Afghanistan
KABUL - The Pentagon says a U.S. soldier has died from wounds sustained during an operation in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province. The Defence Department identifies the solider as 33-year-old ...
Nov 06, 2017

Brazile stirs Dem party strife as bellwether gov race nears
WASHINGTON - Democrats are struggling to put the bitter 2016 election behind them as the party’s current chairman and his predecessor bicker over Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign, further...
Nov 06, 2017
'Bleak' assessment of toll of destroying North Korea nukes
WASHINGTON - A ground invasion of North Korea is the only way to locate and destroy, with complete certainty, all components of leader Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons program, according to a Penta...
Nov 06, 2017
UN weather agency: 2017 set to be among top 3 hottest years
GENEVA - The U.N.’s weather and climate agency says 2017 is set to become the hottest year on record aside from those impacted by the El Nino phenomenon. The World Meteorological Organization sa...
Nov 06, 2017

Uber tackles sex assault problem by pledging $5m to training
DETROIT - Uber is pledging $5 million over the next five years to seven organizations that work to prevent sexual assaults, a move aimed at helping the ride-hailing service combat its own problems as ...
Nov 06, 2017
New Argentina probe says prosecutor Nisman was murdered
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A new police report has dramatically revived one of the greatest criminal mysteries in Argentine history - the possible murder of a crusading prosecutor that has roused grave...
Nov 06, 2017