Category Archives: World

BUCHAREST, Romania - Blizzards swept parts of Europe on Friday, causing at least nine deaths, closing roads and resulting in traffic accidents, travel delays and medical evacuations. In Poland, the co...

MOSCOW - Russia said Friday it is withdrawing its aircraft carrier and other warships from the waters off Syria, following orders from President Vladimir Putin to scale back his forces as he casts him...

ACH SEH ISLAND, Cambodia - A 7-inch creature with a head resembling a horse and a monkey-like tail glides gracefully out of a dark coral crevice off the Cambodian coast. Master of camouflage, unrivale...

WASHINGTON - Congress certified Donald Trump’s presidential victory Friday over the objections of a handful of House Democrats, with Vice-President Joe Biden pronouncing, “It is over.̶...

WASHINGTON - Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a hidden campaign to influence America’s presidential election in favour of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies de...

TOKYO - Japan announced Friday that it would recall its ambassador to South Korea and suspend economic talks in response to the placing of a “comfort woman” statue representing wartime sex...

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Joe Biden told President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to “grow up.” Biden dismissed a Trump complaint on Twitter about how the Obama administration has handled t...

NEW YORK - Federal investigators will be looking into why a packed Long Island Rail road commuter train was travelling erratically at twice the speed limit when it crashed at a rail terminal, injuring...

MIAMI - The Pentagon said Thursday that four Guantanamo prisoners have been released and sent to Saudi Arabia, part of a final push by President Barack Obama to reduce the population at the detention ...

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. is a “good corporate citizen” and intends to work with President-elect Donald Trump to help make America strong, the Japanese automaker’s president, Akio T...