Category Archives: World

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stressing the need to work for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after President Donald Trump signalled that he could accept a differ...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi militarized police captured two neighbourhoods on the western side of Mosul on Sunday amid fierce clashes with Islamic State militants, as thousands of people continued to flee the bat...

WASHINGTON - Democrats have invited immigrants and foreigners to President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress in an effort to put a face on those who could be hurt by the Republican’...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has unloaded on the news media for using anonymous sources - just hours after members of his own staff insisted on briefing reporters only on condition their names ...

WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday defended chief of staff Reince Priebus against accusations he breached a government firewall when he asked FBI Director James Comey to publicly dispute media rep...

WASHINGTON - FBI Director James Comey is again in a familiar spot these days - the middle of political tumult. As a high-ranking Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, he cl...

KABUL - At least 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander were killed in an ambush by Islamic States group militants in northern Zawzjan province, a provincial official said. Mohammad Rez...

BEIRUT - In synchronized attacks, insurgents stormed into heavily guarded security offices in Syria’s central Homs city, clashed with troops and then blew themselves up, killing a senior officer...

LOS ANGELES - Lin-Manuel Miranda owned Friday’s Oscar rehearsals. He sang a tune from “La La Land,” posed like John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever,” invoked a 1990s Bi...

Muhammad Ali’s son, who bears the boxing great’s name, was detained by immigration officials at a Florida airport and questioned about his ancestry and religion in what amounted to unconst...