Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats on Tuesday offered a plan to spend $1 trillion on transportation and other infrastructure projects over 10 years, challenging President Donald Trump to join them on an is...

LONDON - Actor Ewan McGregor was a last minute no-show on the Good Morning Britain television show because of a dispute with host Piers Morgan over recent women’s marches. The star tweeted Tuesd...

SYDNEY, Australia - U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as promised, is prompting other member countries to seek ways to salvage the trade pact. ...

LONDON - A survey shows that the economy of the 19-country eurozone began 2017 with relatively strong growth. The so-called purchasing managers’ index, a gauge of activity in the manufacturing a...

LONDON - Britain’s government warned lawmakers not to try to “thwart the will of the people” after the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Theresa May must seek the appro...

LILLE, France - French authorities ordered the blockage or removal of more than 2,700 websites in 2016, Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said Tuesday, a spike in censorship that some critics in the tec...

LONDON - The Latest on the British Supreme Court ruling on Brexit (all times local): 12:50 p.m. Britain’s Brexit secretary says Prime Minister Theresa May’s government will introduce a bil...

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraq’s prime minister on Tuesday declared eastern Mosul “fully liberated” from Islamic State group militants after a day of fierce fighting and more than three months a...

PARIS - Filmmaker Roman Polanski has abandoned plans to preside over the French equivalent of the Oscars, after protests from France’s women’s rights minister and feminist groups prompted ...

BRUSSELS - NATO’s chief and new U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis have discussed military spending and combating terrorism, the source of criticism of the alliance by President Donald Trump. N...