Category Archives: World

PHILADELPHIA - In a major break for Bill Cosby, a judge ruled Friday that just one of the comedian’s multitude of other accusers can testify at his trial to bolster charges he drugged and violat...

COPENHAGEN - A group of countries pledged at least $672 million at an international donor conference Friday to prevent a famine in the African countries around the Lake Chad Basin. “We have now ...

KADUNA, Nigeria - Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of 60 million naira (about $200,000) for a German archaeologist and his associate abducted this week from a northern Nigerian village, a worker at t...

PRETORIA, South Africa - Police fired stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannon Friday as the latest wave of anti-immigrant protests broke out in South Africa’s capital, while President Jac...

BERLIN - Germany is continuing to receive requests for asylum from Turks with diplomatic passports in the wake of a crackdown on the opposition following last year’s failed coup, the Interior Mi...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mahmoud Elhassan was born in Sudan and came to America in 2012 on a green card to join his family. Within two years, he was advertising himself online to a radical cleric as a one-ma...

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

MEXICO CITY - There were promises of co-operation, of closer economic ties, and frequent odes to the enduring partnership between the U.S. and its southern neighbour. But there were no public mentions...

CANBERRA, Australia - Some Australians foresee trouble in their country’s traditionally strong alliance with the United States because of what they see as “unpresidential” behaviour ...

ATHENS, Greece - Greece’s era of austerity is over, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras claimed Friday, as he painted a positive picture of the reforms his government has agreed to take after th...