Category Archives: World

Austria's Kurz seeks coalition with right-wing Freedom Party
VIENNA - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz said Tuesday he will try to form a coalition government with the right-wing Freedom Party after winning this month’s election. Both Kurz̵...
Oct 24, 2017

GOP senators blister Trump, reveal party at war with itself
WASHINGTON - A pair of senators from President Donald Trump’s own Republican Party blistered him with criticism Tuesday in a dramatic day of denunciation that laid bare a GOP at war with itself....
Oct 24, 2017
US declaration of "ethnic cleansing" in Myanmar on way
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration moved toward a condemnation of “ethnic cleansing” against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, as officials were preparing a recommendation for Secretary...
Oct 24, 2017
EU chief says Brexit talks are toughest test, urges unity
BRUSSELS - European Union chief Donald Tusk warned Tuesday that talks on Britain’s departure from the EU remain the bloc’s toughest test, saying that “it is, in fact, up to London ho...
Oct 24, 2017
Ghosts of Vietnam stirring as Trump preps for Asia trip
NEW YORK - For more than 50 years, every American president has been forced to grapple, in one way or another, with the quagmire of the Vietnam War. Now it’s Donald Trump’s turn. The ghost...
Oct 24, 2017
US suspects Niger villager betrayed Army troops
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military believes someone in a Niger village may have tipped off attackers to the presence of U.S. commandos and Nigerien forces in the area, setting in motion the ambush that ki...
Oct 24, 2017
New Zealand aims to go green with electricity, tree planting
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand’s incoming government is hoping to make the nation greener by planting 100 million trees each year, ensuring the electricity grid runs entirely from renewab...
Oct 24, 2017
EU nations get long-sought breakthrough on 'posted workers'
BRUSSELS - Most European Union nations on Tuesday welcomed a breakthrough on so-called posted workers who are often cheap labour from Eastern Europe working temporarily in richer EU countries. The pra...
Oct 24, 2017

War of words spreads to soldier's widow, Trump
WASHINGTON - A fallen soldier’s angry widow joined the stormy dispute with President Donald Trump over his response to her husband’s death, declaring that his failure to remember the soldi...
Oct 24, 2017
US general lays out Niger attack details; questions remain
WASHINGTON - The U.S. special forces unit ambushed by Islamic militants in Niger didn’t call for help until an hour into their first contact with the enemy, the top U.S. general said Monday, as ...
Oct 24, 2017