Category Archives: World

PARIS - The French presidential campaign lurched across another speedbump Wednesday as conservative candidate Francois Fillon defiantly vowed to stay in the race despite being notified that he may fac...

TALLINN, Estonia - Germany’s foreign minister voiced his skepticism Wednesday about plans to increase the country’s defence spending to meet NATO targets, saying it could raise concerns in...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. Banks and other financial companies led U.S. stocks sharply higher, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average abo...

PARIS - A French artist has spent a week in a hard place: a rock. Abraham Poincheval emerged Wednesday from a 12-ton limestone boulder at a Paris art gallery where he has been entombed since Feb. 22. ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer spending rose at only a sluggish pace in January, even as signs of growing optimism about the economy have emerged. Consumer spending increased 0.2 per cent in January, afte...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary U.S. travel ban, American officials say, citing the latest...

OFRA, Palestinian Territory - Israeli forces are demolishing nine homes in the heart of the West Bank settlement of Ofra after the Supreme Court ruled they were built on private Palestinian land. Cons...

MOSUL, Iraq - An Iraqi commander says his troops are within 800 metres (900 yards) of the main government complex in the northern city of Mosul, the capture of which would mark a symbolic victory agai...

KABUL - Near-simultaneous Taliban suicide bombings and an hours-long shootout with Afghan security forces left at least 16 people dead and over 100 wounded in Kabul on Wednesday - a stark reminder of ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s first speech to Congress left Republicans encouraged and enthusiastic Wednesday, yet still confronting thorny divisions on health care, taxes and more. Trum...