Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The federal prison population is on the decline, but a new attorney general who talks tough on drugs and crime and already has indicated a looming need for private prison cells seems pois...

UNDERHILL, Vt. - Maple syrup doesn’t get that rich flavour and colour in an instant. It’s a long process from tree to bottle. But an improved technology could keep maple sugarers from work...

KADUNA, Nigeria - Nigerian security agents have freed two German archaeologists kidnapped by gunmen at a remote dig, the governor of northern Kaduna state said Sunday. The two academics are now at the...

ASUNCION, Paraguay - Paraguayan authorities say a Mennonite man walked 20 kilometres (12 miles) to reach his home in the Rio Verde Colony after being released by a small rebel group that had kidnapped...

OLATHE, Kan. - A Kansas man accused of shooting two Indian immigrants and a third man at a bar, in what some believe was a hate crime, was always a drinker but became a “drunken mess” afte...

WALHALLA, S.C. - In the aftermath of the racially motivated Charleston church slayings in 2015, the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina Statehouse during an elaborate nationally telev...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The father of a Navy SEAL killed during an anti-terrorism raid in Yemen is demanding an investigation into its planning and criticized the Trump administration for its timing. ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - The small Alaska fishing community of Homer is no stranger to political activism. In the 1970s, a landmark legal case involving one of its residents found the constitutional right to ...

ISMAILIA, Egypt - After Islamic militants barged into his uncle’s house, shot him and his son dead, then looted the place and set it on fire, Said Sameh Adel Fawzy knew it was time to leave. The...

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday broke a month-long silence to describe the assassination of one of her top legal advisers as a great loss for the country. She spoke at a me...