Category Archives: World

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean officials Friday turned away prosecutors trying to search the president’s mountainside compound, a confrontation that highlights the tensions of an inves...

BANGKOK - Thai media organizations are protesting a bill that would require journalists to be licensed and would establish a council that can penalize news outlets for violating professional standards...

WASHINGTON - From a return to higher premiums based on gender, to gaps in coverage for birth control and breast pumps, experts say women could end up paying more for less if the Obama-era health care ...

PARIS - Conservative candidate Francois Fillon, once the front-runner in France’s presidential race, is facing a political maelstrom after first his wife, then his children became targets in an ...

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - The handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, said the furry rodent has “predicted” six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow at...

BERLIN - German investigators say six teenagers who died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a garden house in Bavaria had been using a gasoline-powered generator that wasn’t authorized for indoor u...

Israel’s prime minister vowed Thursday to establish the first new West Bank settlement in over two decades “as soon as possible,” promising to make up for the court-ordered demolitio...

BERKELEY, Calif. - Chaos that erupted at the University of California, Berkeley, to oppose right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was shocking not just for the images of protesters setting fires, sm...

NORFOLK, Va. - Red pandas are the Houdinis of zoos. The raccoonlike creatures, who lounge on tree branches like stuffed animals made real, have escaped exhibits in the United Kingdom, California and W...

SALEM, Ore. - Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on “sanctuary cities” has revealed the deep divide on immigration in liberal and conservative states, with some moving to follow his o...