Category Archives: World

BERLIN - Germany has rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that the country owes NATO large sums for underspending on defence. Trump tweeted Saturday that “Germany owes vast sums of mone...

WASHINGTON - Days before a pivotal vote, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday he will seek changes to a GOP health care bill to provide more help to older people. The new willingness to compromise was ...

ROCKPORT, Maine - The expanding market for lobsters in China is continuing to grow, with the country setting a new record for the value of its imports of the crustaceans from the United States. Americ...

ROME - Italy’s president, whose brother was murdered by Cosa Nostra, travelled on Sunday to an organized crime stronghold to honour hundreds of Italians slain by the country’s crime clans ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - A sheriff’s deputy in Louisiana is dead after being shot near a movie theatre in Baton Rouge, police said Sunday. East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office deputy Shawn T. Ander...

TOKYO - North Korea has conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine that leader Kim Jong Un is calling a revolutionary breakthrough for the country’s space program, the No...

ANKARA, Turkey - Opposition figures in Turkey say they have faced threats, violence, arbitrary detentions, a lack of TV airtime and even sabotage in the campaign for a referendum on expanding the pres...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian police said Sunday that they are hunting for more North Korean suspects over the killing of the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. National police chie...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that his militarily inferior country can’t stop China’s actions in contested waters, responding to a reported plan by...

PARIS - Blood tests determined Sunday that a suspected Islamic extremist consumed drugs and alcohol before a frenzied spree of violence that ended when he took a soldier hostage at Paris’ Orly A...