Category Archives: World

BAGHDAD - A senior military commander says government forces have launched a new push to drive Islamic State group militants from four neighbourhoods in west Mosul. In a statement Sunday, Lt. Gen. Abd...

NASHVILLE - Undercover inspectors have determined that a building registered as a church was being operated as a sex club. WTVF-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2qcR8f2) that the city of Nashville has filed ...

MINYA, Egypt - An Egyptian archaeological mission has found a necropolis holding at least 17 mummies near the Nile Valley city of Minya, in the first such find in the area, the antiquities ministry sa...

KIEV, Ukraine - A man in a tacky suit and his “gorilla” are one of the favourites to win this year’s Eurovision song contest. By the event’s standards, that’s kind of und...

LYNCHBURG, Va. - Donald Trump, the real estate mogul-turned-president, offered simple words of advice to university graduates Saturday as he urged them to follow their convictions, prepare to face cri...

PARIS - In ceremonies marked by youthful optimism and old-world Napoleonic pomp, Emmanuel Macron swept into office Sunday as France’s new president pledging to fortify the European Union, redesi...

WASHINGTON - American democracy is “under assault” on separate fronts from President Donald Trump and Russia, the former U.S. intelligence chief warned Sunday, expressing dismay over the a...

MIAMI - The Coast Guard says no Cuban migrants were intercepted at sea trying to reach the U.S. during April, the first time in seven years that has happened. The Miami Herald reported Saturday (http:...

WASHINGTON - After four months in office, President Donald Trump has become distrustful of some of his White House staff, heavily reliant on a handful of family members and longtime aides, and furious...

WARSAW, Poland - Warsaw’s mayor unveiled a monument Saturday to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to the Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp and informed firsthand on atrocities there but ...