Category Archives: World

GENEVA - The World Trade Organization is predicting an uptick in global trade this year and next after a lacklustre 2016, while cautioning that uncertainty about policies like protectionism and anti-g...

NORWICH, N.Y. - A couple decided to kill their disabled adoptive son and cover up the crime with a house fire after watching the Oscar-winning movie “Manchester by the Sea,” according to t...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - The Vermont motor vehicle department gave federal officials information on immigrants living in the country illegally, documents show, giving life to longstanding fears that programs...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Ruben Gutierrez did not hesitate. A day after his 7-year-old grandson’s good friend was gunned down in a classroom at their school, he took the boy right back to the sma...

WICHITA, Kan. - Republicans pulled out a victory in Kansas in the first of four U.S. House special elections to replace GOP congressmen named to top jobs in President Donald Trump’s administrati...

“I went only with my fear,” said Gatluok Chuol. “If the soldiers found me, they would have killed me.” For several months last year, the 65-year-old South Sudanese farmer riske...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Handcuffed and facing the judge, two young women accused of poisoning Kim Jong Nam appeared in court Thursday as their lawyers said Malaysian police still have not handed over...

CAIRO - The deadly bombings of two churches have left Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi grappling with the question of how to defeat a tenacious Islamic State insurgency that three years of war...

VIENNA - A town south of Vienna is abuzz over the reported theft of dozens of beehives, containing about 1 million bees, from a local park. Police said Wednesday they got involved after residents in t...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A Nepali who was once the oldest climber to scale Mount Everest is attempting to regain that title, at age 85, with hopes that the feat will help him spread a message of peace. Min ...