Category Archives: World

LONDON - In Britain, Big Brother just got bigger. After months of wrangling, Parliament has passed a contentious new snooping law that gives authorities - from police and spies to food regulators, fir...

BEIJING - In the shadow of east Beijing’s soaring glass skyscrapers, elderly retirees still speak nostalgically about their Cuban brothers-in-arm, faraway comrades bound by communist solidarity....

SABATTUS, Maine - In the worlds of birders and craft beer lovers, there’s a new paradigm, and it involves searching for ales along with the eagles, pairing stouts with swans and enjoying some bo...

HAVANA - Fidel Castro, who led his bearded rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Five people are dead and three others missing after a boating accident in New Zealand, according to police. Inspector Duncan Hall said that a boat carrying 11 people got into...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A car bomb exploded near a police station in a busy market in the Somali capital on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 16 others, a police official said. The attack...

BEIRUT - A Syrian official blasted Turkey Saturday saying it is to blame for the death of its soldiers because it sent them to Syria, as the Syrian army said troops have captured a neighbourhood in th...

BERLIN - Pilots at Lufthansa are staging a fourth consecutive day of strikes against the German airline on Saturday, with chances of an immediate resolution to the pay dispute looking slim after their...

While the death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro prompted cheers from the country’s exiles in Miami, the 90-year-old revolutionary leader’s passing produced expressions of respect in other par...

HAVANA - The Latest on the death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro (all times local): 6:40 a.m. The Cuban government has declared nine days of national mourning for the death of Fidel Castro, ending when h...