Category Archives: World

SPUR, Texas - A storm system blamed for the death of a truck driver in Oklahoma barrelled eastward Wednesday, generating a tornado in Houston and threatening additional bad weather in the central Unit...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida woman charged with threatening the parent of a boy killed in the 2012 mass shooting at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, was a no-show Wednesday at change-of-plea hea...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis demanded urgent action Wednesday to protect civilians in Iraq, saying forces involved in the battle for Mosul have an obligation to protect innocents following a recent spi...

DEAD SEA, Jordan - Arab leaders on Wednesday relaunched a peace plan that offers Israel full ties in exchange for Palestinian statehood, signalling to President Donald Trump that they are ready to eng...

MOSCOW - Ukraine’s president on Wednesday condemned the overnight shelling of the Polish Consulate in a western city and vowed to track down those responsible. Petro Poroshenko also ordered extr...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The price of ivory in China has dropped sharply as the country plans to end the legal trade in ivory later this year, a leading elephant conservation group said in a new report Wednes...

TULARE, S.D. - A driver who called for help after running out of gas is accused of stealing a deputy’s squad car in South Dakota and leading authorities in a pursuit before once again running ou...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May is speaking to the House of Commons as anticipation builds before a key decision on leaving the European Union. May says that the moment is upon us when the...

HELSINKI - Nobel literature prize laureate Bob Dylan will meet with members of the Swedish Academy during a weekend visit to Stockholm and they will hand over his Nobel diploma and medal, the academy ...

LONDON - The latest on Brexit (all times local): 1:50 a.m. Britain’s ambassador to the U.N. says the United Kingdom may be leaving the European Union but it isn’t leaving Europe and will r...