Category Archives: World

PODGORICA, Montenegro - U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence said Wednesday that the future of Europe’s Balkan nations is in the West, reaffirming Washington’s commitment to the region as Russia...

WASHINGTON - The Senate has approved a pair of bills taking aim at urgent problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs, clearing a $3.9 billion emergency spending package to fix a looming budget cri...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra blasted volcanic ash as high as 4.2 kilometres (2.6 miles) on Wednesday, one of its biggest eruptions in the past several months...

WASHINGTON - Who are you going to trust when it comes to what’s best for the flying public? Members of Congress or the hero of the Miracle on the Hudson, retired Capt. Chesley “Sully”...

HELENA, Mont. - Montana’s worst fire season in years is expected to scorch the drought-stricken landscape well into fall, long after the state’s firefighting reserves run out thanks to pol...

BANGKOK - A Thai court acquitted two former prime ministers of abuse of power on Wednesday in a case involving the deadly dispersal of an anti-government protest in 2008. A division of the Supreme Cou...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil’s embattled president survived a key congressional vote that could have suspended him over a bribery charge, mustering enough support Wednesday night to stay in office ...

SRINAGAR, India - A fresh strike called by anti-India separatists to protest the killings of two top rebels and a civilian shut down disputed Kashmir Wednesday while a teenage boy died a day after he ...

MANILA, Philippines - Southeast Asia’s top diplomats will seek talks “as soon as possible” on a proposed nonaggression pact with China aimed at preventing clashes in the South China ...

BERLIN - Prosecutors in Germany say a bus driver’s inattentiveness led to a collision with a truck on a highway last month that killed 18 people. The bus carrying German seniors on vacation to I...