Category Archives: World

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says a vessel from a joint U.S. and British naval fleet approached Revolutionary Guard boats in the Strait of Hormuz in an “unprofessional” manner aimed at escalating t...

BAGHDAD - Iraq’s prime minister says it will continue to target militants in neighbouring countries, as it did last month with airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Syria. Addressing a f...

LONDON - Britain’s Natural History Museum is sending its most precious fossil, a 147 million-year-old skeleton that established the link between dinosaurs and birds, abroad for the first time. T...

MOSUL, Iraq - The antiquities museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul is in ruins. Piles of rubble fill exhibition halls and a massive fire in the building’s basement has reduced hundreds of rare book...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A rally in Rotterdam to seek support for a “yes” vote in a Turkish referendum on constitutional reform that would give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more power wa...

JOHANNESBURG - Officials in Madagascar say the death toll from a cyclone has risen to five and about 10,000 people have left their homes because of storm damage. Media in Madagascar reported Thursday ...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine lawmakers rejected the appointment of Perfecto Yasay as the country’s top diplomat on Wednesday after his flip-flopping statements first denying then admitting h...

WASHINGTON - If China was hoping for a concession from the U.S. after recently suspending coal imports from cash-poor North Korea, it got the opposite. The U.S. is starting to deploy a missile defence...

WASHINGTON - The productivity of American workers grew at a slower pace in fourth quarter and last year recorded the smallest annual gain in five years. The Labor Department said Wednesday that produc...

LOUISBURG, N.C. - A man accused of decapitating his mother told authorities that he stabbed her numerous times because he “felt like it,” according to newly released court documents. The s...