Category Archives: World
Clinton shapes agenda for first year of potential presidency
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Hillary Clinton’s advisers are crafting a domestic policy agenda for the opening months of a potential presidency that is centred on three issues with some level of Republic...
Oct 31, 2016
Sweden declares hero Wallenberg officially dead
STOCKHOLM - World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust, has been pronounced dead by Swedish authorities, 71 years after he dis...
Oct 31, 2016
Toyota to test car-sharing system that doesn't use keys
DETROIT - Toyota will test a new car-sharing system next year that lets users unlock doors and start cars with their smartphones. The Smart Key Box system eliminates the need for a physical key. Toyot...
Oct 31, 2016
Cosby wants other accusers to take competency, memory tests
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby’s lawyers accused prosecutors Monday of trying to use the “tainted, unreliable memories of women, now in their senior years” to build their sexual assault c...
Oct 31, 2016
The 2016 presidential campaign put the 'ugh' in ugly
WASHINGTON - Good riddance to Campaign 2016, the election that put the “ugh” in ugly. Big league. Headed for history books a week from Tuesday, the duel between Hillary Clinton and Donald ...
Oct 31, 2016
Pakistani police detain 1,500 in crackdown on opposition
ISLAMABAD - Pakistani police launched a nation-wide crackdown overnight, arresting at least 1,500 supporters of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan ahead of an opposition rally planned later this w...
Oct 31, 2016
Consumer spending rebounded in September
WASHINGTON - Consumers boosted their spending in September at the fastest pace in three months, while their incomes grew by a modest amount. Consumer spending increased 0.5 per cent, a significant reb...
Oct 31, 2016
Pakistan's top court stays hanging of mentally ill prisoner
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of a mentally ill prisoner whose hanging was to take place later this week, a lawyer said. The case of 50-year-old Imdad Ali, ...
Oct 31, 2016
Upset at being sidelined in talks, Pakistan warns Taliban
ISLAMABAD - Two senior Taliban figures said that Pakistan issued a stark warning to the militant group, apparently surprised and angered over being excluded from the insurgents’ secret talks wit...
Oct 31, 2016
Nun recounts roar of earth during morning prayers
TREVI, Italy - Sister Caterina was praying with the eight nuns of her Benedictine order in the central Italian town of Norcia when the earth began to roar. The abbey and the ground beneath the nuns...
Oct 31, 2016