Category Archives: World

ISTANBUL - Three Turkish soldiers were killed in northern Syria in what the Turkish military said was a pre-dawn Syrian airstrike on Thursday, an account disputed by Syrian activists, who said the sol...

BERLIN - German airline Lufthansa says it has cancelled 912 flights on Thursday as pilots strike for a second day in a long-running dispute over wages. Lufthansa said Thursday that since the strikes w...

YEHUD, Israel - The Israeli company that has built high-tech fences along the country’s volatile borders is now trying to build a bridge to the Trump administration - hoping to use its experienc...

BEIJING - The wife of one of China’s most prominent human rights campaigners said Thursday that he had disappeared during a trip to visit relatives of a detained rights lawyer. Jiang Tianyong, a...

BRISBANE, Australia - A bystander dressed only in underpants helped police arrest an unlicensed driver who allegedly crashed a car into an Australian takeout restaurant on Thursday then fled. Daniel M...

BEIJING - The death toll from the collapse of scaffolding at a construction site in eastern China rose to 74, state media said Friday, in the country’s worst work-safety accident in over two yea...

BEIJING - Chinese state media say at least 22 people have been killed and others are trapped in a collapse at a construction site. More to come. The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he is considering a subpoena or another method of compelling testimony from the pharmaceutical company Mylan, the Justice Dep...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama got the holiday mood started at the White House on Wednesday with the traditional pardoning of the national Thanksgiving turkey, this time with his nephews standing...

WASHINGTON - Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor considered the “king of bankruptcy” for buying beaten-down companies with the potential to deliver profits, is President-elect Donald Tru...