Category Archives: World

Protesters chant against Trump as he visits Dayton, El Paso
EL PASO, Texas - Aiming to play the traditional role of healer during national tragedy, President Donald Trump paid visits to cities reeling from mass shootings that left 31 dead and dozens more wound...
Aug 09, 2019

US wholesale prices rise just 0.2% in July
WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices ticked up just 0.2% in July, the latest sign that inflationary pressures are largely in check. The Labor Department said Friday that the producer price index - which...
Aug 09, 2019

Richard Gere visits migrants stuck at sea in Mediterranean
Actor Richard Gere is visiting rescued migrants on board a humanitarian ship that has been stuck in the Mediterranean Sea for over a week. The Hollywood star took food and supplies by boat Friday to 1...
Aug 09, 2019

UK economy shrinks by 0.2% in second quarter
LONDON - Official figures show that the British economy shrank by a quarterly rate of 0.2% in the second quarter of the year. The decline reported Friday by the Office for National Statistics was unex...
Aug 09, 2019

Taliban suicide blast in Kabul kills 14 people, 145 wounded
KABUL - A Taliban car bomb aimed at Afghan security forces ripped through a busy Kabul neighbourhood on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 145 - most of them women, children and other civilians...
Aug 09, 2019

Casting director David Rubin elected film academy president
LOS ANGELES - Casting director David Rubin has been elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that bestows the Oscars. He is the first casting dire...
Aug 08, 2019

China bans movies, actors from prominent Taiwan film awards
BEIJING - China said Wednesday that it was banning Chinese movies and actors from participating in Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, one of the Asian film industry's most prestigious honours, as Beijing r...
Aug 08, 2019

Clinton impeachment is FX's next 'American Crime Story'
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The next chapter of FX's "American Crime Story" will dramatize Bill Clinton's impeachment with a focus on Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp and other women central to the scandal. T...
Aug 08, 2019

Opponents of refinery location take case to Supreme Court
BISMARCK, N.D. - Two environmental groups who say North Dakota regulators should have intervened in the location of an oil refinery near the state's top tourist attraction, Theodore Roosevelt National...
Aug 08, 2019

Trump's divisive words collide with his call for unity
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday will bring a message aimed at national unity and healing to the sites of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. But the words he offers for a divide...
Aug 08, 2019