Category Archives: World

LONDON - The lines between terrorism and criminality are becoming blurred as an increasing number of former criminals join the Islamic State group and create a “gangster jihad,” according ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - German Chancellor Angela Merkel signalled support for protesters demanding wider freedoms in Ethiopia during a visit to the country on Tuesday, saying “a vibrant civil so...

BANGKOK - Police searches on Tuesday yielded no evidence or suspects that would corroborate an intelligence report of possible car bomb attacks in Bangkok and its outskirts, a spokesman said. Police s...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military on Tuesday demolished the family home of a Palestinian convicted of being an accomplice to a deadly attack on Israelis last year, while security was stepped up for a J...

PARIS - Charities working with refugees and migrants living in a slum-like camp in northern France objected Tuesday to the government’s plan to dismantle the site and disperse the occupants, say...

BEIJING - More than 1,000 protesters walked and chanted in front of China’s defence ministry Tuesday, the latest apparent demonstration by soldiers as the world’s largest standing military...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani officials said Wednesday they imposed a travel ban on a prominent journalist to determine who gave him information for what they called a fabricated story about a high-level secr...

BEIRUT - Airstrikes on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 14 people Tuesday, while the shelling of a government-held neighbourhood in southern Syria hit a school, killing ...

ST. ANTHONY, N.D. - Construction on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that’s near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal right...

GENEVA - The U.N. health agency on Tuesday recommended that countries use tax policy to increase the price of sugary drinks like sodas, sport drinks and even 100-per cent fruit juices as a way to figh...