Category Archives: World

DUBLIN - A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland, government-appointed investigators announced Friday in a findin...

DODOMA, Tanzania - A court in Tanzania on Friday sentenced a notorious poacher nicknamed “The Devil Has No Mercy” to 12 years in prison. Boniface Methew Malyango was the subject of a docum...

MOSCOW - The Russian Defence Ministry says the nation’s top military officer has spoken to his NATO counterpart for the first time in several years. The ministry said Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the ...

GENEVA - The United Nations special envoy for Syria concluded Friday a marathon round of talks in Geneva with an agreement from the conflicting parties to pursue further talks on a political transitio...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Three suicide bombers set ablaze three fuel tankers in the centre of Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri before dawn Friday, officials said, just days before a planned ...

Beijing’s escalating condemnation of South Korea over a U.S. anti-missile system has triggered protests against a popular retail giant and a reported ban on Chinese tour groups visiting the coun...

BALTIMORE - They were just seven officers on a police force of more than 3,000, but the Baltimore detectives charged with theft, fraud and conspiracy had an outsized crime-fighting role in a city plag...

TBILISI, Georgia - Thousands of people have rallied in the Georgian capital to protest a court verdict handing a top opposition-minded television station to a government-friendly owner. The Supreme Co...

WASHINGTON - In a story March 3 about the federal prosecutor in line to oversee an investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, The Associated Press reported erroneously that ...

TEL AVIV, Israel - Israeli rocker Aviv Geffen broke into “The Hope Song,” a signature hit he wrote after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that is often referred to as the ...