Category Archives: World

ROME - Hooded youths taking part in an anti-government protest in the Italian city of Florence have attacked police with cobblestones, sticks and other objects and police have responded with tear gas....

PARIS - A French soldier has been killed in an attack in northern Mali after a mine exploded as his armoured vehicle passed by during a supply mission, French officials said Saturday. The French Defen...

MOSUL, Iraq - Islamic State fighters launched counterattacks Saturday against Iraqi special forces in eastern Mosul, emerging from populated areas deeper in the city to target the troops with mortars ...

BEIRUT - An offensive by Syrian insurgents aimed at the government-held part of the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least 74 civilians, including 25 children, an opposition monitoring group said...

LONDON - The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party says Prime Minister Theresa May’s government is resisting “democratic scrutiny” of the Brexit process because it has no...

BERLIN - A retiree in Germany has struck gold in his garden, finding the wedding band he lost three years ago wrapped around a carrot. Germany public broadcaster WDR reports that the 82-year-old lost ...

NEW DELHI - Even for a city considered one of the world’s most polluted, the Indian capital hit a new low this past week. Air so dirty you can taste and smell it; a grey haze that makes a gentle...

MADRID - French police arrested the leader of the debilitated Basque militant group ETA, Spain’s Interior Ministry said Saturday. Spanish authorities identified Mikel Irastorza as “current...

ISLAMABAD - Heavy smog loaded with pollutants has covered several urban and rural areas in eastern Pakistan, prompting breathing problems, and causing more than 20 deaths in traffic accidents caused b...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean prosecutors on Sunday formally arrested two former presidential aides as they bring their investigation over a bizarre political scandal that has engulfed the ...