Category Archives: World

BEIRUT - Syrian government forces captured more than a third of opposition-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, touching off a wave of panic and flight from the besieged enclave as rebel defences in the cou...

NEW YORK - A multimillion-dollar trove of seized Impressionist art believed to have been owned by the regime of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos has sat for five years in a climate-controlled Broo...

CINCINNATI - A prosecutor’s widely expected decision to retry a white former police officer on a murder charge in the traffic-stop shooting of a black man came with the surprise that he wants to...

BERLIN - Swiss voters rejected a plan to accelerate the country’s exit from nuclear energy in a referendum Sunday, turning down an initiative that would have forced their government to shut the ...

HOUSTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to examine whether the nation’s busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who’s intellectually disabled, whi...

NEW ORLEANS - One man was killed, nine people were injured and witnesses said others ran in panic during an early Sunday shooting in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a bustling tourist destination p...

NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump claimed without evidence Sunday that “millions” voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton’s nearly 2 million edge ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Preliminary evidence points to 22-year-old McKay Hutton as the gunman in a murder-suicide that left four dead - including an infant - at an Alaska hotel on Friday, police said in a...

NEW YORK - Someone has renamed Donald Trump’s midtown Manhattan building on Google Maps, and the new moniker isn’t very flattering. Instead of Trump Tower, it’s “Dump Tower....

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Veteran Chinese director Feng Xiaogang has picked up the Golden Horse Award for best director for his social satire “I Am Not Madame Bovary.” The annual Golden Horse award...