Category Archives: World

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish and Russian officials on Thursday held talks on the deteriorating conditions in eastern Aleppo but gave no indication they were close to a cease-fire as Syrian government forc...

BRUSSELS - Belgian authorities have charged two people with terrorist offences linked to a machete attack on two police officers earlier this year. The federal prosecutor’s office announced Thur...

SEATTLE - A Washington state police officer responding to a domestic violence call was fatally shot and his fellow officers were still “taking fire” as they removed him from a home, beginn...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Battered by massive protests and an impeachment push, South Korea’s president cried Thursday during her first public appearance among her citizens since a huge politi...

BEIJING - Chinese buyers of eye-poppingly expensive luxury cars will have to pay extra under Beijing’s latest effort to rein in ostentatious spending. The communist government has added a 10 per...

BANGKOK - Thailand has a new king, with the country’s crown prince formally taking the throne to succeed his much-revered late father, who reigned for 70 years. The new monarch, who received the...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A second fugitive inmate who escaped last week from a county jail in California by rappelling down with a bedsheet was re-arrested, after a seven-hour standoff with police. Santa Cl...

WASHINGTON - Citing fears of a Donald Trump presidency, environmental groups are urging President Barack Obama to stay busy in his final weeks. He is listening. With his days in office numbered, Obama...

NEW YORK - Donald Trump may have to give up one property on Pennsylvania Avenue if he wants to move into another down the street. One is the newly opened, glittering jewel in the president-elect’...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean police say they have detained a man suspected of setting fire to the birthplace of late military dictator Park Chung-hee, the father of current President Park ...