Category Archives: World

LONDON - Britain’s foreign secretary will soon travel to Russia on a visit his office says will be consistent with the country’s “engage but beware” policy toward Moscow. Boris...

ATLANTA - Everyone was in place for the hearing in Atlanta immigration court: the Guinean man hoping to stay in the U.S., his attorney, a prosecutor, a translator and the judge. But because of some mi...

PALM BEACH, Fla. - President Donald Trump turned to Congress on Sunday for help finding evidence to support his unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump’s telephones ta...

BELGRADE, Serbia - Lazar Stojanovic, a Serbian film director who was jailed under communism and was an anti-war activist during the 1990s, has died. He was 73. Stojanovic’s family said Saturday ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has issued new figures showing it narrowed its deficit by half in 2015 to 12.4 million euros ($13 million). That compares with a deficit of 25.6 million euros in 2014. The V...

JOHANNESBURG - Nigeria has filed criminal charges of corruption against oil multinationals Royal Dutch Shell and Eni over the $1.1 billion sale of one of Africa’s richest oil blocks. Both compan...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia’s prime minister said Saturday that 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region - the first death toll announced in a severe drought thr...

MOSCOW - Russia’s foreign ministry says it would be happy to play matchmaker between American actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Moscow’s ambassador to the United States. Parker on Thursday ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is telling advisers and allies that he may shelve, at least temporarily, his plan to pursue a deal with Moscow on the Islamic State group and other national securit...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - U.S. and Canadian scientists are planning to spend the next five years studying flooding on Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River, which drains the lake north into Quebec, and wheth...