Category Archives: World

PARIS - Days before a crucial presidential primary, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing new allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal financing from the late Libyan dicta...

MARRAKECH, Morocco - French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday urged the United States to respect the “irreversible” Paris Agreement on climate change, and said France will lead a dial...

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. - A bus driver for an upstate New York school district is in trouble for allowing students who would have voted for Donald Trump to exit the vehicle before children who would’v...

LONDON - Kensington Palace says a new exhibition tracing the evolution of the late Princess Diana’s style is set to open in February. The palace said Tuesday that the exhibition, “Diana: H...

WASHINGTON - Manufacturing in New York state expanded in November, ending three straight months of contraction. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says its Empire State index rose to a reading of 1....

WASHINGTON - American consumers ramped up their spending last month in a sign of robust health heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. Retail sales rose 0.8 per cent in October, after an upw...

DOHA, Qatar - Los Angeles sought to allay concerns over Donald Trump’s election, Paris played up its glamorous venues and Budapest set itself apart as a mid-sized alternative as the three cities...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand military leaders said Wednesday they had almost completed the evacuation of more than 700 tourists and residents from a small coastal town, two days after a power...

SAITAMA, Japan - While much of the world anxiously awaits what happens under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, one factory manager in Japan is all smiles. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of rubbe...

ATHENS, Greece - Drawing a broad lesson from the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that world leaders need to pay attention to people’s very real fears of economic di...