Category Archives: World

BEIJING - Chinese monitors say they’ve detected multiple landslides but no major building collapses following a powerful earthquake in the country’s mountainous southwest that killed at le...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal’s parliament has passed a bill toward making women safer by strengthening laws against acid attacks along with the ancient Hindu customs of demanding dowry payments for ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner Friday of Kenya’s hard-fought presidential election, but opposition candidate Raila Odinga alleged the voting was rigged. In ann...

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government has announced a mandatory official holiday due to a heat wave. Wednesday’s late night statement calling for a Thursday holiday came from the Iraqi Cabinet as tempe...

CANBERRA, Australia - Gay-rights advocates filed a court challenge Thursday to the government’s unusual plan to canvass Australians’ opinion on gay marriage next month, while a retired jud...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s foreign minister resigned on Thursday after being accused ofpossessing a luxury apartment paid for by a businessman investigated for shady treasury bond transact...

WASHINGTON - More Americans applied for jobless aid last week. Despite the small increase, the number of people seeking benefits remained close to historic lows. THE NUMBERS: Weekly unemployment appli...

BOISE, Idaho - A group that represents farmers is calling the costs of saving imperiled salmon in the largest river system in the Pacific Northwest unsustainable and is turning to the Trump administra...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A court in Cambodia on Thursday sentenced a political analyst to 18 months in prison on the basis of a criminal complaint by Prime Minister Hun Sen that he had defamed him in a ...

WASHINGTON - Prices at the wholesale level dipped slightly in July, the first decline in 11 months and further evidence that inflation remains a no-show in the economy. The Labor Department says its p...