Category Archives: World

BEIJING - China’s environmental ministry said Tuesday that an unspecified number of companies had violated measures meant to reduce smog during a period of particularly noxious pollution in the ...

BEIJING - In a story Jan. 3 about drills in the South China Sea involving China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier, The Associated Press reported erroneously that vessel was commissioned in 2013. It wa...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The captain of an Indonesian tourist ferry that caught fire on New Year’s Day was arrested Tuesday for alleged negligence in a disaster that left at least 23 people dead, po...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean President Park Geun-hye refused to testify Tuesday in the impeachment trial that will decide her future, prompting the prosecutors to question why she has publ...

ISTANBUL - An eerie video emerged Tuesday of a man believed to be the attacker who killed 39 people in a mass shooting at a nightclub, showing him taking a selfie as he silently toured Istanbul’...

NEW YORK - A New York City firefighter has made an unusual discovery, unearthing two nearly 100-year-old tickets for the city’s long-defunct streetcar line at a firehouse in Manhattan. WNBC-TV r...

ISTANBUL - The latest on the manhunt for the Istanbul nightclub attacker and the aftermath of the massacre (all times local): 3:35 a.m. The White House says President Barack Obama has offered his cond...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - After a judge ruled Monday that Dylann Roof is competent to represent himself, the same jury that last month unanimously found him guilty in the slayings of nine black parishioners ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An imprisoned Iranian human rights activist ended a 71-day hunger strike Tuesday as his detained wife won a temporary release from prison, a day after his case sparked a ...

BAGHDAD - Violence claimed the lives of at least 6,878 civilian Iraqis last year, the United Nations said on Monday, as the Iraqi government struggles to maintain security nationwide and to dislodge I...