Category Archives: World

Japan rejects nuclear ban treaty; survivors to keep pushing
TOKYO - Japan said Monday it will not sign a U.N. treaty that bans nuclear weapons and does not welcome its entry into force next year, rejecting the wishes of atomic bomb survivors in Japan who are u...
Oct 26, 2020

2/3rds of Chilean voters back rewriting their constitution
SANTIAGO, Chile - Amid a year of contagion and turmoil, Chileans turned out Sunday to vote overwhelmingly in favour of having a constitutional convention draft a new charter to replace guiding princip...
Oct 26, 2020

French doctor warns his country has 'lost control' of virus
PARIS - A French doctor warned Monday that his country has "lost control of the epidemic," a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact...
Oct 26, 2020

Strikers in Belarus press for authoritarian leader's ouster
KYIV, Ukraine - Factory workers, students and business owners in Belarus on Monday began a strike to demand that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after more than two months of conti...
Oct 26, 2020

Trump eyes hosting election night party at his DC hotel
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has his eye on hosting an election night party at his own hotel in the nation's capital. Over the weekend, the campaign pushed out fundraising emails in the preside...
Oct 26, 2020

High court won’t extend Wisconsin's absentee ballot deadline
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is siding with Republicans to prevent Wisconsin from counting mailed ballots that are received after Election Day. The justices on Monday refused to reinstate a lower co...
Oct 26, 2020

Prince Harry says ignorance no excuse for unconscious bias
LONDON - Britain's Prince Harry says it took him many years and the experience of living with his wife, the former Meghan Markle, to understand how his privileged upbringing shielded him from the real...
Oct 26, 2020

Remembering his friends, Springsteen pens ‘Letter to You’
NEW YORK - Last year as Bruce Springsteen reflected on the death of his friend and teenage bandmate George Theiss, who died in 2018, he grabbed his guitar and pen and began writing a song about being ...
Oct 26, 2020

Scientists remove 98 'murder hornets' in Washington state
SPOKANE, Wash. - Scientists removed 98 so-called murder hornets from a nest discovered near the Canadian border in Washington state over the weekend, including 13 that were captured live in a net, the...
Oct 26, 2020

GOP US Senate candidate Jason Lewis rushed into surgery
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis was rushed into emergency surgery Monday for a severe internal hernia, just eight days before the election, his campaign announced....
Oct 26, 2020