Category Archives: World

NEW DELHI - It was the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan that sounded the alarm: Chinese soldiers had arrived with bulldozers and excavators, and were building a high-mountain road near India’s b...

NAJAF, Iraq - In the wake of victory against the Islamic State group in Mosul, Iraq’s political, religious and military leaders are debating the future of the country’s powerful Shiite mil...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - Authorities say a 2-year-old Chihuahua died in a hot car while its owner was cleaning condominiums in Florida. Now 29-year-old Angela Delandra Rogers of Banks, Alabama, faces...

FRESNO, Calif. - A teenage driver lost control of her car while she was livestreaming on Instagram and recorded part of the crash that authorities said Monday killed her younger sister in California. ...

AUGUSTA, Maine - A court hearing could determine the fate of a dog that was due to be euthanized before Maine’s governor tried to grant clemency to the pooch. Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s...

HAMHUNG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - In the 10 years he has been digging up ordnance from the Korean War, Maj. Jong Il Hyon has lost five colleagues to explosions. He carries a ligh...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed Monday to continue his bloody war on illegal drugs despite international and domestic criticism and warned that offenders will end up i...

SPINDALE, N.C. - When Andre Oliveira answered the call to leave his Word of Faith Fellowship congregation in Brazil to move to the mother church in North Carolina at the age of 18, his passport and mo...

WASHINGTON - Homebuyers faced surging prices and a shrinking number of properties for sale in June - causing the pace of sales to fall. Sales of existing homes slipped 1.8 per cent last month to a sea...

LAHORE, Pakistan - A suicide bomber struck near a police team in the eastern city of Lahore Monday killing at least 26 and wounding another 54, many of them police officers. An outlawed Taliban factio...