Category Archives: World

CAIRO - Making his first official visit to Washington, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s meeting this week with U.S. President Donald Trump would be a significant step in the international rehabilitation ...

WASHINGTON - It sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tu...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Massachusetts city of Cambridge is weighing whether to call for an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. Vice Mayor Marc McGovern has filed a policy order for M...

LONDON - UK police questioned six people Sunday in a vicious attack on a teenage asylum-seeker in the London borough of Croydon. Authorities have arrested four men and two women, all in their 20s, on ...

STOCKHOLM - A bus carrying Swedish high school students to a ski resort through the night crashed early Sunday in central Sweden, killing three people and injuring 20 others - seven of them seriously,...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - A sapphire rush has brought tens of thousands of people into the remote rainforests of eastern Madagascar, disfiguring a protected environmental area and prompting calls for...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Prolonged protests in North Dakota have failed to stop the flow of oil through the Dakota Access pipeline, at least for now, but they have provided inspiration and a blueprint for pro...

A new initiative launched by Black Lives Matter activists seeks to re-focus the movement’s efforts on state capitols, building on momentum at the national level to push back against President Do...

JERUSALEM - A joint U.S.-Israeli missile interceptor meant to counter the type of medium-range missiles possessed by Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants became operational Sunday, completing IsraelR...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The Oscar winner “Moonlight” has won again, taking best film at the 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards. Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age portrait was honoured by the ...