Category Archives: World

LISBON, Portugal - Portugal’s government is activating contingency plans in response to a drought gripping almost 80 per cent of the country. Environment Secretary Carlos Martins says the “...

LAFAYETTE, La. - As a pugnacious sheriff’s deputy, Clay Higgins developed a loyal social media following with thumbs-hooked-in-gun-belt anti-crime videos in which he leaned menacingly toward the...

BEIJING - Veteran Chinese labour activist Liu Xiaoming has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison on the charge of inciting subversion of state power after he published his personal account of the bl...

JARRATT, Va. - A Virginia man who killed a hospital security guard and a sheriff’s deputy after escaping from custody in 2006 was executed after an unsuccessful campaign to spare the inmate̵...

MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail Friday after serving 25 days for organizing a wave of protests. “We will, of course, not bend under any pressure,” ...

HAMBURG - So many issues, so little time. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have a scheduled half-hour meeting in Hamburg on Friday and a world of weighty topics to discuss, from the war in Syria to Nor...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A South Carolina inmate broke out of a maximum-security prison using wire cutters apparently flown in by drone, officials said Friday, describing a new and devilishly hard-to-stop mea...

JERUSALEM - The U.N. cultural agency on Friday declared the old city in the West Bank town of Hebron as a Palestinian world heritage site, a decision that outraged Israeli officials who say the move n...

PARIS - A French investigation into a Las Vegas tech party is putting new pressure on President Emmanuel Macron’s labour minister - and possibly the president himself - as they pursue difficult ...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish police detained 29 suspected Islamic State group militants in raids in Istanbul on Friday, the country’s state-run news agency reported. Anadolu Agency said 22 of the mi...