Category Archives: World

Riot police clear away protesters from Hong Kong legislature
HONG KONG - Hundreds of protesters swarmed into Hong Kong's legislature Monday night, defacing portraits of lawmakers and spray-painting pro-democracy slogans in the chamber before vacating it as riot...
Jul 03, 2019

Success has Malaysian rapper Bunga dreaming of music
One of the few Malaysian female rappers, Bunga says she at first didn't consider a career in music. "My initial dream was to be a politician or a lawyer," the 19-year old rapper told The Associated Pr...
Jul 02, 2019

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Is Ginsburg using words carefully?
WASHINGTON - It's been another taxing term for reporters who try to forecast the outcome of high-profile Supreme Court cases. Many of us wrote that based on arguments in late April, the court's five c...
Jul 02, 2019

Airstrike hits migrant detention centre in Libya, 40 killed
BENGHAZI, Libya - An airstrike hit a detention centre for migrants early Wednesday in the Libyan capital, killing at least 40 people, a health official in the country's U.N.-supported government said....
Jul 02, 2019

Japan resumes commercial whaling, seen as face-saving end
TOKYO - Japan has resumed commercial whaling after 31 years, meeting a long-cherished goal of traditionalists that's seen as a largely lost cause. Whaling boats embarked Monday on their first commerci...
Jul 02, 2019

Clarification: Trump-North Korea story
In a story June 30, The Associated Press reported that President Donald Trump was joined in his Freedom House conversation with North Korea's Kim Jong Un by his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump a...
Jul 02, 2019

Morgan scores and Naeher saves in 2-1 victory over England
LYON, France - With Alex Morgan's cheeky tea-sipping celebration and a postgame mobbing of goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, the United States has moved a step closer to successfully defending its latest Wome...
Jul 02, 2019

Trump chooses Waller and Shelton for 2 Fed board vacancies
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Tuesday on Twitter that he will nominate economists Christopher Waller and Judy Shelton to fill two influential positions on the Federal Reserve Board of Gover...
Jul 02, 2019

Data scientist drops Facebook defamation suit
Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the centre of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation lawsuit against the social network rather than engage in an expens...
Jul 02, 2019

Kaepernick stirs new controversy for Nike
NEW YORK - Nike's sales have only grown since it seized attention with its ad campaign featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. So, the shoemaker deferred to its star endorser when he raised...
Jul 02, 2019