Category Archives: World

PORTLAND, Maine - Maine’s scallops have surged to a record high price at the docks this winter after several years of rising in value, according to fishing regulators in the state. Fishermen har...

PARIS - It sounds far-fetched at best: holding a Mideast peace conference without Israelis, Palestinians or the incoming U.S. government. But the French organizers say that’s the whole point. Th...

PHILADELPHIA - For Abdul Aliy-Muhammad, the Martin Luther King Jr. he learned about as a child was a man of love, peace and racial harmony, a gifted orator. It wasn’t until Aliy-Muhammad became ...

MADRID - Spanish police say the bodies of four African migrants have been found along the country’s south coast. Local police confirmed to The Associated Press that two bodies were found on the ...

BERLIN - A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel says he’s open to launching a parliamentary inquiry into whether authorities made mistakes in handling the Tunisian man who drove a truc...

TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas is working on new guidelines for how to handle situations where a wild animal is being kept as a pet after game wardens were criticized for shooting a family’s pet deer. It...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stressing as she awaits Donald Trump’s inauguration that the world’s problems need solving in co-operation, rather than by each country individu...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump’s meetings with CEOs seeking federal approval for major mergers are raising red flags for ethics lawyers concerned about the possible erosion of a firew...

WALTERBORO, S.C. - Neighbours knew them for years as a church-going mother and her polite teenage daughter before police swarmed Gloria Williams’ home in this small, quiet South Carolina city. W...

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi forces have won a string of swift territorial gains in Mosul in the fight against the Islamic State group after months of slow progress, with a senior officer on Saturday laying cl...