Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - Starbucks is pushing ahead with its expansion into China and said Wednesday that it is on track to having 5,000 stores there by 2021, more than doubling the number of coffee shops it curren...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Police and other law enforcement organizations around the world co-operated in a massive weeklong operation targeting organized crime that led to 314 arrests, the seizure or 2...

YOLA, Nigeria - Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers wounded and an unknown number missing, the army said Wednesday. ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A federal judge was considering on Wednesday whether the jury in a University of Virginia administrator’s defamation suit against Rolling Stone should be able to watch a v...

WASHINGTON - Justice Department officials are warning that they’ll be dispatching fewer trained election observers as a result of a Supreme Court opinion that gutted a key provision of the Votin...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Soyuz rocket carrying two Russians and an American has blasted off for the International Space Station. The crew of Roscosmos Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko and NASA ast...

WASHINGTON - “Bittersweet” was the word of the night, the one often used to describe President Barack Obama’s final State Dinner. “We saved the best for last,” he said Tu...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - From liberal California to conservative Missouri, there are few places Sen. Elizabeth Warren won’t go this election season. The Massachusetts Democrat is campaigning for Hilla...

NEW YORK - Revisiting a crime that shattered a bygone era’s sense of safety, prosecutors on Wednesday launched their second bid for a conviction in one of the nation’s most influential mis...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish police on Wednesday fatally shot a suspected Islamic State group militant who was believed to be planning a suicide bomb attack in the capital. The man was killed in a raid on...