Category Archives: World

HAVANA - For a dollar, Cuban podiatrist Serafin Barca will spend a half hour cutting the corns off a senior citizen’s foot, or nearly an hour removing a stubborn wart. The 80-year-old is among t...

BEIJING - A gay man in central China has successfully sued a mental hospital over forced conversion therapy, in what activists are hailing as the first such victory in a country where the LGBT rights ...

DOHA, Qatar - The energy-rich Gulf nation of Qatar, facing further isolation from its neighbours amid an ongoing diplomatic rift, said Tuesday it plans to boost production of liquefied natural gas by ...

INCHEON, Korea, Republic Of - Robots will start roaming South Korea’s largest airport this summer, helping travellers find their boarding gates and keep its floors clean as the country prepares ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - If North Korea’s claim Tuesday of its first ICBM test-launch is true, it has barrelled over a red line that the world has long called a tripwire for potential nuclear...

LONDON - Britain’s police and firefighters, repeatedly hailed as heroes in recent months for facing down extremists and rushing into burning buildings, have become the symbol of a new anti-auste...

LONDON - The family of a Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing launched a new effort Tuesday to posthumously clear his name. Relatives of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi say he was wrongly convicte...

NICOSIA, Cyprus - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is due to return to Cyprus peace talks to push rival sides closer to a deal after Turkey raised the ante Tuesday by insisting that it won̵...

LISBON, Portugal - Portuguese authorities suspect international terrorists and arms traffickers are behind a “very professional” theft last week at the country’s national armoury, th...

WASHINGTON - The United States asserted Tuesday that North Korea’s latest missile launch was indeed an intercontinental ballistic missile, as the North had boasted and the U.S. and South Korea h...