Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” a sung-through musical that dramatizes a 70-page melodrama at the centre of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” ear...

MOSCOW - Anzor was lying on a dirty floor as a man in army boots jumped on his back. His agony worsened when his captors started torturing him with electric shocks. “It’s a feeling like th...

MEXICO CITY - One of the Sinaloa cartel leaders who launched a struggle for control of the gang following the re-arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was captured Tuesday, Mexican prosecuto...

KABUL - An Afghan official says a Taliban attack in a northern province has killed five policemen and wounded four. Javwd Dedar, spokesman for the provincial governor, says the assault happened late o...

PARIS - Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen lifted verbatim parts of a speech by a former rival in what her critics called plagiarism and she said was a deliberate “wink” to him to woo his c...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled improving prospects for co-operation in Syria Tuesday in what the White House called a “very good” phone ...

SAN DIEGO - Monique Clark was remembered for her infectious smile by her friends, including entertainer Nick Cannon who wrote on social media that “tears can’t express the pain and shock&#...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch prosecutors say police have arrested a Dutch man with a Somali background on suspicion of “involvement with a terror organization” in Somalia. The National P...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s president on Tuesday rejoined the ruling party he co-founded in a step on his path toward solidifying his grip on power, following his narrow victory in last month̵...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani soldiers and the Taliban exchanged intense fire in a restive tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, with each side claiming to have inflicted severe damages on the othe...