Category Archives: World

MEXICO CITY - One of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s closest advisers and confidants, Finance Secretary Luis Videgaray, resigned Wednesday in a move seen as linked to the unpopular decision to in...

MOSCOW - Russian airline companies have cancelled dozens of flights and four airports are planning brief closures as Russia hosts massive military exercises in the south and the annexed Crimean penins...

OXFORD, England - U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter accused Russia on Wednesday of sowing seeds of global instability and questioned whether Moscow genuinely wants a viable cease-fire in Syria. In a h...

JACKSON, Miss. - A white police officer is back at work in northeast Mississippi, weeks after a grand jury declined to indict him in the shooting death of a black man who ran from a traffic stop. City...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A 70-year-old man accused of robbing a bank in Kansas told investigators he would rather be imprisoned than live with his wife. Court documents say Lawrence John Ripple gave a note...

PARIS - A criminal terrorist investigation has been opened in Paris following the discovery of a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral with seven gas canisters and pages written in Arabic inside, prose...

MADRID - Spain’s film academy has selected Pedro Almodovar’s film “Julieta” as its entry for best foreign language film at next year’s Oscars. It is the sixth time the di...

BEIRUT - An airstrike near the site of a suspected gas attack in Syria killed at least 10 civilians Wednesday, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov agreed t...

PHILADELPHIA - Republican Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to boost defence spending and deploy more active troops, fighter planes, Navy ships and submarines as he works to convince skeptics in both parti...

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday defended her government’s handling of the flood of migrants that crossed into Germany last year, but conceded that more still needs to be done and ...