Category Archives: World
Relations between Obama, Netanyahu camps hit rock bottom
HONOLULU - It took eight years of backbiting and pretending they got along for relations between President Barack Obama’s administration and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government ...
Dec 29, 2016
France bans pesticides in public green spaces
PARIS - French children will soon be able to frolic in the grass without risk of intoxication. Pesticides will be banned in all public green spaces from Sunday while non-professional gardeners will no...
Dec 29, 2016
Iraqi troops resume Mosul fight after 2-week lull
MOSUL, Iraq - Breaking a two-week lull in fighting, Iraqi troops backed by the U.S.-led coalition’s airstrikes and artillery pushed deeper into eastern Mosul on Thursday in a multi-pronged assau...
Dec 29, 2016
Final goodbye: Roll call of some of those who died in 2016
Death claimed transcendent political figures in 2016, including Cuba’s revolutionary leader and Thailand’s longtime king, but also took away royals of a different sort: kings of pop music,...
Dec 28, 2016
Final goodbye: Roll call of some of those who died in 2016
Death claimed transcendent political figures in 2016, including Cuba’s revolutionary leader and Thailand’s longtime king, but also took away royals of a different sort: kings of pop music,...
Dec 28, 2016
NYPD to allow Sikhs to wear turbans, grow beards
NEW YORK - The New York Police Department is now allowing Sikh (seek) officers to wear turbans in place of the traditional police cap and grow beards up to a half-inch long for religious reasons. Poli...
Dec 28, 2016
Activist who freed minks pleads guilty to federal charge
SAN DIEGO - An animal rights activist who vandalized a fur store and journeyed around the country freeing thousands of minks from farms has pleaded guilty to a federal charge in San Diego. The San Die...
Dec 28, 2016
Reactions to the death of actress Debbie Reynolds Wednesday
Reaction to the death of actress Debbie Reynolds Wednesday at 84, a day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher, died: - “Debbie Reynolds, a legend and my movie mom. I can’t believe this happene...
Dec 28, 2016
Actress Debbie Reynolds, 84, dies a day after daughter
LOS ANGELES - Debbie Reynolds, who lit up the screen in “Singin’ in the Rain’ and other Hollywood classics despite a tumultuous life, has died a day after losing her daughter, Carrie...
Dec 28, 2016
NewsAlert: Actress Debbie Reynolds has died, son says
LOS ANGELES - Actress Debbie Reynolds, star of the 1952 classic ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ and mother of Carrie Fisher, has died, son says. More to come. The Canadian Press
Dec 28, 2016