Category Archives: World

OAKLAND, Calif. - Investigators said Tuesday a warehouse fire in Oakland that killed 36 people did not appear to have been set intentionally and may have been caused by a refrigerator or other electri...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s president said on Tuesday that his country will not allow incoming U.S. President Donald Trump to “tear up” Iran’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers...

BEIRUT - Syrian government forces and allied militias captured Aleppo’s centrally located al-Shaar neighbourhood from rebels on Tuesday, securing nearly three quarters of the besieged enclave le...

LOS ANGELES - The FBI said Tuesday it found no evidence that a bomb threat which prompted heightened security at a Los Angeles subway station was real and the anonymous caller who made it may have rep...

COPENHAGEN - A gunman shot a Danish policeman in the head Tuesday outside a police station in suburban Copenhagen, briefly prompting security outside police stations to be stepped up across the countr...

WASHINGTON - The productivity of American workers rose in the July-September quarter at the fastest pace in two years while labour costs slowed after a big jump in the spring. Productivity increased i...

JERUSALEM - In a first such move, Israel has denied entry to a foreign activist involved in efforts to boycott the Jewish state. Israel’s public security and interior ministers said on Tuesday t...

PHILADELPHIA - A suburban Philadelphia judge settled one of two key pretrial issues in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial when he ruled on Monday that the jury could hear Cosby’s damaging t...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - Some rain fell in southern Madagascar last week, a rare piece of good news for a drought-hit region where nearly 1 million people face severe hunger because of failed harves...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkish authorities have forcibly evicted tens of thousands of people in security operations in a predominantly Kurdish district of southeastern Turkey, a human rights group said ...