Category Archives: World

MEXICO CITY - Hurricane Dora strengthened off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Monday, but posed little threat as it spun out into the ocean away from land. The hurricane’s maximum sustained wind...

LOS ANGELES - Eight people were injured Sunday night after an SUV crashed into a motel swimming pool, Los Angeles police said. The driver lost control of his vehicle about 7:30 p.m. in front of the Va...

MULTAN, Pakistan - Pakistan’s prime minister cut short a trip abroad to rush to the side of victims of a massive fuel tanker fire as authorities on Monday raised the death toll to 157. The truck...

WASHINGTON - Two weeks into her new life as a full-time Washingtonian, Melania Trump is staying true to her reputation as more homebody than social butterfly. Not that she hasn’t been busy fulfi...

WASHINGTON - The last day of the Supreme Court’s term was notable not only for what was announced but also for what wasn’t. There had been speculation that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Ke...

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia - Mongolia’s presidential election appeared headed for a runoff with the latest vote count early Tuesday showing a business tycoon leading the ruling party’s candidat...

WASHINGTON - Declaring the U.S. military in dire need of rebuilding, an influential House committee chairman pressed his case Monday for $696 billion defence budget in 2018 - more military spending th...

BEIJING - The world’s biggest coal users - China, the United States and India - have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heav...

BEIJING - Rescue crews were ordered on Monday to evacuate the site of a deadly landslide in southwestern China over concerns of a second landslide, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The order ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational summit next month. But the...