Category Archives: World

BEIJING - Eight people were killed and nine injured in an explosion and fire Monday at a chemical plant in eastern China’s Shandong province, local authorities and media reports said. The accide...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - From the squiggly, pink handrails outside the entrance to the front hall decorated with scenes from “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street” - a real street jus...

BEIJING - Its efforts to cut pollution have made China the world leader in renewable energy development, yet that green power has been wasted as the country struggles to integrate wind and solar farms...

LUCKNOW, India - A bus slammed head-on into a truck in northern India early Monday, killing 22 people and injuring more than a dozen, police said. The bus was carrying 37 passengers when it collided w...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey on Monday refused to budge on its refusal to let German lawmakers visit troops stationed at a Turkish air base, a stance that left NATO ally Germany on the verge of a likely de...

WARSAW, Poland - Hundreds of taxi drivers in Poland’s four largest cities drove at a crawl Monday blocking rush-hour traffic in a protest to draw the government’s attention to the rising n...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Police arrested 14 people as thousands of demonstrators and counter-protesters converged in downtown Portland more than a week after two men were fatally stabbed trying to stop a man ...

MEXICO CITY - The ruling party’s candidate held a slight advantage on in preliminary vote counts on Monday in the race for governor of Mexico’s most populous state, an election seen as a k...

PANAMA CITY - A fugitive Mexican ex-governor wanted for alleged corruption in connection with the sale of state properties worth hundreds of millions of dollars was arrested in Panama and faces possib...

WASHINGTON - Even members of his own party were quick to declare President Donald Trump’s budget plan dead on arrival in Congress last month. And in fact, lawmakers are facing a burst of overdue...