Category Archives: World

LONDON - U.K. Independence Party acting leader Nigel Farage has predicted a political earthquake in Britain if the government of Prime Minister Theresa May fails to leave the European Union before the...

JERUSALEM - Israeli police on Thursday found hate graffiti against liberal streams of Judaism scrawled on the walls of a synagogue affiliated with the Reform movement, as well as death threats address...

HAIFA, Israel - A wildfire roared through parts of Israel’s third-largest city on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes as the country’s leaders raised the ...

COPENHAGEN - A former employee of a payment-processing company and a former chief editor of a gossip magazine were convicted Thursday for illegally accessing credit card transactions and using them to...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi has begun serving a year-long prison sentence handed down over footage authorities deemed insulting, his production company confirmed on T...

PARIS - Citing the risk of imminent threat, French anti-terrorism authorities are keeping five men in custody without charge in an investigation into a suspected new plot to attack France. The suspect...

MOSUL, Iraq - The death toll from a car bombing south of Baghdad claimed by the Islamic State group rose to 73 on Friday, including about 40 Iranian pilgrims, as Iraqi forces fought house to house to ...

KAIKOURA, New Zealand - In terms of human life, the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit New Zealand this month was relatively merciful: two fatalities. But geologically, it moved roads and mountains and...

BRUSSELS - The president of the European Parliament announced Thursday that he will leave his post and go into German politics, where he could become the main opponent to Chancellor Angela Merkel in n...

Tokyo residents woke up Thursday to the first November snowfall in more than 50 years. And the Japan Meteorological Agency said it was the first time fallen snow on the ground was observed in November...