Category Archives: World

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pardoned a woman convicted of treason last year for sending text messages about military movements near Georgia’s breakaway republic. The Kre...

BANGKOK - Thai authorities have seized 422 pieces of elephant tusks and arrested a Gambian man suspected of smuggling the ivory, customs officials said Tuesday. The cut-up tusks were hidden in a shipm...

SEATTLE - A Sikh man who says a man shot him in the arm and told him to go back to his country is recovering from his wound at home in suburban Seattle and is encouraged by an outpouring of support, c...

BEIJING - John Oliver won rave reviews for his “Last Week Tonight” interview showing the Dalai Lama in all his candour and wit. Beijing, however, was not amused. China’s foreign mini...

LONDON - George Michael died of natural causes as the result of heart disease and a fatty liver, a British coroner said Tuesday. Darren Salter, senior coroner for the county of Oxfordshire in southern...

WARSAW, Poland - Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain and crew members of a movie telling the real-life story of a Warsaw woman who saved dozens of Jews from the Holocaust are in the city for the movie&...

WASHINGTON - Fresh off his Oscar for “Manchester by the Sea,” actor Casey Affleck will be lending his voice to a protest intended to call attention to mistreatment of bears. People for the...

BRUSSELS - The European Union’s highest court has upheld rules that prevent member countries from applying reduced rates of value-added tax to many electronic books, newspapers and magazines. Th...

PARIS - Police in the town of Modane, near the French Alps ski resort of Valfrejus, are searching for two people still missing following an avalanche that killed a Dutch snowboarder. About 60 rescuers...

MOSCOW - Children under age 16 won’t be able to go to the new Disney film “Beauty and the Beast” in Russia because it includes a gay character, the Russian Culture Ministry said Tues...