Category Archives: World

LONDON - The British and Scottish leaders traded barbs Tuesday over Scotland’s desire to hold a vote on independence just as the U.K. is negotiating its exit from the European Union. Scottish Fi...

LONDON - A timeline of key events related to the historic referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union: Jan. 23, 2013: British Prime Minister David Cameron promises a referendum on B...

KABUL - The Taliban have cut off a suspected thief’s hand and foot in public, the latest brutal punishment to be meted out by the Islamic extremists in the growing areas under their control, Afg...

MIAMI - A 14-year-old foster child who hanged herself in a shower stall and broadcast it on Facebook suffered years of sexual abuse, was beaten and rejected by her mother and bounced between more than...

KAMPALA, Uganda - The mysterious Facebook blogger kept dishing up alleged government secrets. One day it was a shadowy faction looting cash from Uganda’s presidential palace with impunity. The n...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - It’s one thing to talk about changing allegiance to another country when a new president is elected. It’s another thing to go ahead and do it. But that’s ex...

KREERI, India - After former fighter Syed Bashir Bukhari gave up the rebellion against Indian rule in his home territory of Kashmir, he faced trouble. His family was denied Indian citizenship after re...

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi troops have surrounded western Mosul and military leaders vow it’s only a matter of time until they crush the last major stand of the Islamic State group in Iraq. But the mil...

BANGKOK - Rights groups are urging Thailand’s government to enact legislation banning torture and forced disappearances as its human rights record comes under United Nations review. Tuesday̵...

QUETTA, Pakistan - A Pakistani police official says a truck loaded with sand toppled over, collapsing a mud shack and killing seven members of an Afghan refugee family living there. Police official As...