Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The keepers of the Doomsday Clock have moved the symbolic countdown to potential global catastrophe 30 seconds closer to midnight based on President Donald Trump’s comments on nucle...

RAMAT HASHARON, Israel - Surrounded by more than 100 fellow Holocaust survivors and young volunteers, a blind Ernest Weiner sat in his wheelchair with a puffy crown on his head as the crowd sang happy...

WASHINGTON - The politically ascendant anti-abortion movement gathered Friday for a triumphant rally on the National Mall, rejoicing at the end of an eight-year presidency that participants said was d...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s pick for labour secretary outsourced his fast-food company’s technology department to the Philippines, a move that contradicts Trump’s vow to ke...

WASHINGTON - U.S. businesses ramped up their investment in industrial machinery, semiconductors and other big-ticket items last month, boosting demand for factory goods. A measure that tracks business...

ZAGREB, Croatia - Croatia’s Jewish community on Friday boycotted the official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, saying the conservative government is not doing enough to curb pro-Nazi sentimen...

JOHANNESBURG - Doctors Without Borders said Friday it plans to return to Somalia, more than three years after closing its operations in the turbulent country amid “extreme attacks” on its ...

COPENHAGEN - McDonald’s says it has sold its Nordic operations to Guy Hands, chairman of British equity firm Terra Firma, who will become the main franchiser for Denmark, Norway, Finland and Swe...

WARSAW, Poland - Jewish and Christian leaders prayed over the ruins of gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau as some warned on International Holocaust Remembrance Day of rising xenophobic hatred against ...

BERLIN - The number of people living in Germany has reached a new record of 82.8 million, due largely to migration. The Federal Statistical Office says the population at the end of last year was about...