Category Archives: World

DUBLIN - Northern Ireland’s snap election has left the rival extremes of politics virtually neck and neck for the first time - and facing a bruising battle to put their Catholic-Protestant gover...

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. - A libertarian author who has been called a white nationalist said college students who protested his guest lecture this week were “scary.” Middlebury College said a profe...

KABUL - At least eight Afghan civilians, including four children, were killed in an attack late Friday night in western Farah province, according to Afghan officials. However there is disagreement ove...

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump, his administration under siege for contacts with Russian officials, is calling for “an immediate investigation” into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan on Saturday executed 10 prisoners with ties to Islamic extremism who carried out five shootings and a bombing since 2003, the government spokesman said. It was the largest round...

BEIJING - China will raise its defence budget by about 7 per cent this year, a government spokeswoman said Saturday, continuing a trend of lowered growth amid a slowing economy. Total defence spending...

A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled to lift protections that kept grey wolves an endangered species in Wyoming for years after federal officials removed packs in neighbouring states from that list. T...

Miriam Colon, a pioneering actress in U.S. Latino New York theatre who starred in films alongside Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, died Friday. Her husband, Fred Valle, told The Associated Press that Colo...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Euphoric crowds of several thousand people gathered in Zimbabwe’s capital on Saturday to demand the departure of President Robert Mugabe, one of Africa’s last remai...

NEW YORK - Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he’s through with “The New Celebrity Apprentice,” and he’s blaming President Donald Trump for the television reality show̵...