Category Archives: World
$47 billion offer to create world's biggest tobacco company
LONDON - British American Tobacco has offered to buy out Reynolds American Inc. for $47 billion in an attempt to gain a strong presence in the U.S., a lucrative market where sales of electronic cigare...
Oct 21, 2016
Strong quake in western Japan knocks out power, injures 7
TOKYO - A powerful earthquake in western Japan knocked loose roof tiles, toppled store shelves and caused power outages Friday afternoon, but apparently caused no widespread damage. At least seven peo...
Oct 20, 2016
NewsAlert: Powerful earthquake in western Japan, no danger of tsunami
TOKYO - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 shakes western Japan, but there is no danger of a tsunami being caused. The Meteorological Agency said the earthquake occurred Friday ...
Oct 20, 2016
Under fire in Mosul, IS attacks another Iraqi city
KIRKUK, Iraq - Islamic State militants launched a wave of pre-dawn attacks in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, killing at least 14 people and setting off fierce clashes with Kur...
Oct 20, 2016
Yoga pants parade to protest man's comments on women's wear
BARRINGTON, R.I. - Yoga pants-wearing women plan to parade through a coastal Rhode Island town, protesting a man who says the outfits look tacky and ridiculous. The Providence Journal reports (http://...
Oct 20, 2016
Goodyear christening 2nd airship in fleet replacing blimps
AKRON, Ohio - Goodyear is officially welcoming the second airship in the fleet replacing its famous blimps. The replacements look much like their predecessors but aren’t technically blimps becau...
Oct 20, 2016
Over 50,000 evacuated in typhoon's path in southern China
BEIJING - Typhoon Haima forced the evacuations of more than 50,000 people in southern China after hammering the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain, triggering flooding, landslides and p...
Oct 20, 2016
Arnold Newman photography exhibit opens at upstate NY museum
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - A new exhibit of the renowned portrait photographer Arnold Newman’s work has opened at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown. “Arnold Newman: Luminaries of the Twentie...
Oct 20, 2016
Group wants charges against 3 documentary filmmakers dropped
NEW YORK - A media watchdog is calling on prosecutors in North Dakota and Washington state to drop charges against three documentary filmmakers arrested while filming protests against oil pipelines. T...
Oct 20, 2016
Philippine president announces separation from US
BEIJING - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that his country is separating from the U.S. in a speech before a Beijing economic forum on Thursday, after handing China a major diplomatic vi...
Oct 20, 2016