Category Archives: World

BANJUL, Gambia - A top Gambian opposition politician and 18 other protesters were released from prison after an appeals court granted them bail on Monday, just days after strongman ruler Yahya Jammeh ...

ROME - Calls mounted rapidly Monday from populist and other opposition leaders for quick elections in Italy, seeking to capitalize on Premier Matteo Renzi’s humiliating defeat in a referendum on...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - President-elect Donald Trump, a political newcomer who touts his corporate skills, turned businessman-in-chief Tuesday, first demanding the government cancel a multibillion-dollar...

TOKYO - In a story published Dec. 5 about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Pearl Harbor, The Associated Press reported erroneously that he would be the first Japanese leade...

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday denounced the rape and killing of a university student as a “tragic event,” responding for the first time to a case that has inflamed pas...

GENEVA - The U.N.’s humanitarian aid co-ordination agency says it and partners require a record $22.2 billion next year to help people hit by conflict and disasters around the world, a 10 per ce...

SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio official says a 60-year-old man has been rescued after two cars were submerged inside a sinkhole created when a large sewer line ruptured. San Antonio Fire Battalion Chief ...

A judge has ordered a hand recount of Michigan’s presidential results to begin by noon Monday, and the Green Party is trying to force a federal court order for a statewide recount in Pennsylvani...

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump is using Twitter to renew his defence of his engagement with the leader of Taiwan, a breach of diplomatic protocol as the U.S. shifted recognition from Taiwan t...

BEIJING - Chinese leaders face a challenge: How to deal with Donald Trump. Weeks before taking office, the incoming American president is riling Beijing with confrontation and online statements that a...