Category Archives: World
Volkswagen to shed 30,000 jobs to cut costs after scandal
WOLFSBURG, Germany - Automaker Volkswagen says it will shed 30,000 jobs to cut costs as it tries to recover from its diesel emissions scandal and invests more in electric-powered vehicles and digital ...
Nov 18, 2016
Shifting US policy to right, Trump taps Sessions, Flynn
NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump signalled a sharp rightward shift in U.S. national security policy Friday with his announcement that he will nominate Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney gen...
Nov 18, 2016
Iraqi forces advance into Mosul under fire, 1 soldier killed
MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi troops advanced cautiously into eastern districts of Mosul on Friday, facing stiff resistance from Islamic State militants a day after they paused their assault due to poor visibil...
Nov 18, 2016
Unlikely apprentice: Obama coaches Trump to be world leader
BERLIN - It’s the last thing President Barack Obama ever expected he’d be doing in his final months in office: Coaching Donald Trump on how to be a world leader. As the president-elect hol...
Nov 18, 2016
The effects of India's currency reform? "Chaos" say analysts
NEW DELHI - The sudden withdrawal of 86 per cent of India’s currency has left cash in short supply, retail sales stumbling and wholesale markets in turmoil. That’s just the immediate fallo...
Nov 18, 2016
Amid protests, Philippine dictator buried at heroes cemetery
MANILA, Philippines - Long-dead former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was buried Friday at the country’s Heroes’ Cemetery in a secrecy-shrouded ceremony, a move approved by President...
Nov 18, 2016
China astronauts return from monthlong space station stay
BEIJING - A pair of Chinese astronauts returned Friday from a monthlong stay aboard the country’s space station, China’s sixth and longest crewed mission and a sign of the growing ambition...
Nov 18, 2016
Hundreds of O'Hare airport workers vote to strike
CHICAGO - Hundreds of O’Hare International Airport workers have voted to go on strike ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Service Employees International Union Local 1 officials said Thursday tha...
Nov 18, 2016
Minnesota officer released after hearing in Castile shooting
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile during a July traffic stop will be allowed to remain free as a manslaughter case against him proceeds, a judge ruled d...
Nov 18, 2016
Trump claims to save auto plant. But it wasn't closing.
DETROIT - President-elect Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he convinced the chairman of Ford Motor Co. not to move an assembly plant from Kentucky to Mexico. But Ford never intended to move the plan...
Nov 17, 2016