Category Archives: World

MOSUL, Iraq - Significant Islamic State group counterattacks in southeastern Mosul inflicted heavy losses on Iraqi forces overnight after a new push deeper into the city this week, according to an Ira...

BEIRUT - Syria’s government ignored a rebel cease-fire proposal for Aleppo on Wednesday as its forces captured new neighbourhoods around the city centre and squeezed some 200,000 tired and frigh...

TOKYO - Asian markets were mostly higher Wednesday, cheered by gains on Wall Street and optimism about the telecommunications industry. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.7 per c...

KABUL - From a childhood as a refugee, Capt. Safia Ferozi is now flying a transport plane for Afghanistan’s air force as the country’s second female pilot, a sign of the efforts to bring m...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The Latest on a magnitude-6.4 earthquake in Indonesia’s Aceh province (all times local): 10:50 a.m. The chief of the district nearest the epicenter of a shallow 6.4-magnitud...

BEIJING - Seven coal miners are dead and another four still missing after a gas explosion in a central province in the latest deadly accident to strike China’s mining industry, authorities said ...

CHICAGO - City workers have taken down two Donald Trump honorary street signs near his downtown Chicago hotel and condominium tower. Mike Claffey of the city’s Department of Transportation says ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - One of seven Oregon refuge standoff defendants awaiting trial is asking the court to dismiss his indictment, arguing that statements by federal officials expressing disappointment aft...

MIAMI - Officials say a South Florida police substation was shut down for several hours after a woman brought in two grenades she found in her home. Local media outlets report that the woman brought t...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Environmental groups are seeking to defend a new federal rule that would restrict how oil companies burn off excess natural gas extracted from public lands. Wyoming, Montana and North...