Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve has left its key interest rate unchanged at a time of solid economic gains but also heightened uncertainty surrounding the new Trump administration. At the same time, ...

DARLINGTON, England - British journalist Julia Breen’s scoop about racism at her local police force didn’t just get her on the front page, it got her put under surveillance. In the months ...

KABUL - While Afghanistan’s Buddhists were carving the giant sandstone statues in Bamiyan in 500 A.D., Buddhists in China were creating martial arts in the Shaolin temple in Henan Province. Fift...

ATLANTA - A CNN editor and producer from Iraq was wrongly detained at Atlanta’s airport because of the President Donald Trump’s ban on entry for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries...

WASHINGTON - Former Vice-President Joe Biden is backing Tom Perez to head the Democratic National Committee, calling the former Obama administration labour secretary the “best bet to help bring ...

AMMAN, Jordan - When retired Maj. Gen. Mohammed Otoom was summoned to Jordan’s domestic intelligence service over a critical web comment, he wasn’t too rattled. After all, he was a 30-year...

WASHINGTON - Physician David Shulkin headed toward likely confirmation as President Donald Trump’s veterans affairs secretary, after offering repeated assurances Wednesday to sometimes skeptical...

BOSTON - Harvard Medical School professor Thomas Michel was so excited about recruiting Iranian researcher Soheil Saravi, he put Saravi’s name on the door of his Boston lab when his new hire got...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska brothers James and Giono Barrett have a dream: that some of the scores of cruise ship passengers who crowd the streets of the state capital each summer will one day use their s...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Silicon Valley billionaire and President Donald Trump adviser Peter Thiel was able to gain New Zealand citizenship in 2011 despite never having lived in the country, because ...