Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been fooled by a pair of Russian pranksters impersonating the prime minister of Ukraine. Perry spoke to the pair about the Paris climate agreement and the ...

CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. - The 92 annual Chincoteague pony penning is set for Wednesday. Organizers say the wild ponies of Assateague Island will swim across to Chincoteague sometime between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m...

KABUL - An Afghan official says 26 soldiers have been killed in a blistering Taliban assault on an Afghan National Security base in southern Kandahar province. Mohammad Radmanish, defence ministryR...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s government deployed army troops on Wednesday to restore fuel distribution crippled during a strike launched by trade unions who want to stop leases of oil tanks ...

NEW DELHI - The death toll in a building collapse in the western Indian city of Mumbai rose to 17 Wednesday, a day after the accident occurred, the fire department said. Rescue workers continued to se...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - No knot-tying demonstrations. No wood-carving advice. President Donald Trump went straight to starting a fire in a speech at a national Boy Scout gathering. Parents, former Scouts ...

BRUSSELS - The European Union’s top court ruled Wednesday that Islamic militant group Hamas should stay on the EU terror list, saying a lower court should not have ordered the group removed from...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - It was a woolly ride, but three wild rabbits managed to escape rising floodwaters in New Zealand by clambering aboard sheep and surfing to safety on their backs. Ferg Horne, ...

LAGOS, Nigeria - A four-story residential building collapsed in Nigeria’s largest city and killed at least eight people, including a child, emergency officials and an Associated Press photograph...

SYDNEY, Australia - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson toured the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday ahead of high-level bilateral security talks with Australian officials. The former London mayor a...