Category Archives: World

DETROIT - Prosecutors dropped murder charges Wednesday against a man in the killing of a Detroit college police officer who was shot in the head while on duty, but did not elaborate on why they no lon...

BALTIMORE - In a story Dec. 7 about a school bus crash in Baltimore, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the driver of the school bus involved in a fatal crash in Chattanooga, Tennessee, wa...

WASHINGTON - Last week’s telephone call between President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan’s president was the result of six months of behind-the-scenes work by former Sen. Bob Dole acting on...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Global shares rose on Thursday following upbeat trade data from China. Investors were looking ahead to a meeting of the European Central Bank later in the day. KEEPING SCOR...

WASHINGTON - The United States and five other Western powers called Wednesday for an immediate cease-fire in the Syrian city of Aleppo and accused Russia of blocking efforts to halt the bloodshed. In ...

NEW DELHI - Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld death sentences for the leader of a banned Islamic group and two of his associates found guilty in a 2004 grenade attack on a British e...

BEIJING - China on Wednesday accused Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen of seeking to use a planned transit stop in the U.S. to score diplomatic points, amid Chinese rancour over an unprecedented phone ...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine communist rebels warned President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday that they may be forced to end their monthslong cease-fire and resume fighting if he does not suspend th...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte staunchly defended on Wednesday more than two dozen policemen who were accused by the government’s main investigation agency of killing...

NEW YORK - Donald Trump embraced new Cabinet officers Wednesday whose backgrounds suggest he’s primed to put tough actions behind his campaign rhetoric on immigration and the environment, even a...