Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending declined in June for the second time in three months, as spending on government construction projects plunged by the largest amount in 15 years. Construction sp...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s prime minister on Tuesday ordered the ouster of an American-led Christian organization that seeks to rescue and rehabilitate women working in the sex trade, say...

WASHINGTON - A conservative House Republican is calling on special counsel Robert Mueller to resign. He is citing what he says is a conflict of interest because of Mueller’s “close friends...

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a tough line on national sovereignty Tuesday amid multiple territorial disputes with his country’s neighbours, saying China will never permit the lo...

ANKARA, Turkey - Nearly 500 suspects, including generals and military pilots, went on trial Tuesday in Turkey accused of leading last year’s failed coup attempt and carrying out attacks from an ...

MIAMI - Tropical Depression Emily is now moving farther away from the Southeast coast, a day after drenching parts of Florida with rain. The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday afternoon that Emily...

TOKYO - A typhoon that briefly strengthened into the Northern Hemisphere’s strongest storm of the year has lost much of its punch but could still hit Japan by this weekend. Typhoon Noru was pack...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday elected veteran lawmaker Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the country’s new prime minister, a loyalist of outgoing Nawaz Sharif, who was ...

WASHINGTON - Consumer spending slowed in June as income growth turned in the weakest performance in seven months. Spending edged up a tiny 0.1 per cent compared to a 0.2 per cent rise in May, the Comm...

BANGKOK - Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra declared her innocence and asked for “kindness” from a court Tuesday during her final statement in a criminal negligence trial that...