Category Archives: World

BEIRUT - Five months of multi-sided clashes in Syria’s crowded northern battlefield have displaced some 66,000 people, a U.N. humanitarian agency said Sunday, a day after the U.S. bolstered Kurd...

BERLIN - Deutsche Bank says it is planning a capital increase to raise 8 billion euros ($8.45 billion). The German lender said in a statement Sunday that the capital increase will come through the iss...

PITTSBURGH - Dr. Thomas Starzl, who pioneered liver transplant surgery in the 1960s and was a leading researcher into anti-rejection drugs, has died. He was 90. The University of Pittsburgh, speaking ...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s judiciary has indicted a member of the country’s team that negotiated the nuclear deal with world powers, a spokesman said Sunday, likely an Iranian-Canadian national...

PARIS - For France’s conservatives, this year’s presidential election should have been effortless. Instead, the Republicans party - once all but certain to take back the Elysee Palace in 2...

WASHINGTON - At a circular booth in the middle of the Trump International Hotel’s balcony restaurant, President Donald Trump dined on his steak - well-done, with ketchup - while chatting with Br...

ISTANBUL - The decision on whether or not to return the Syrian pilot who ejected into Turkey will be made following his treatment, a Turkish Cabinet minister said Sunday. Deputy Prime Minister Nuretti...

VIENNA - Austria was among the first countries in Europe to put out the welcome mat when waves of people fleeing war and poverty reached the continent. Now, its focus is showing them the door. Parliam...

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has shown a willingness to limit the participation of environmental groups in lawsuits involving public lands, writing in one case that allowing conservationists to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York legislation to relax one of the nation’s most restrictive statutes of limitations on child molestation victims continues to stall under pressure from the Roman Catholic C...