Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - In a story Aug. 30, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Alliance for Downtown New York, reported that 266,000 workers are employed in the private sector in Lower Manhattan...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama cut short on Tuesday the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offences. Obama has long called fo...

LOS ANGELES - Chris Brown can’t avoid trouble. Following a bizarre, hours-long stand-off with police, the “No Air” and “Kiss Kiss” singer was arrested Tuesday afternoon o...

BEIRUT - Russia’s Defence Ministry says its airstrike killed the Islamic State group’s spokesman and chief strategist. The Defence Ministry says in a statement on Wednesday that its intell...

WASHINGTON - The German pilot who deliberately flew his airliner into a mountainside last year had struggled with learning to fly and had failed a key test of his skills during training in the U.S., a...

BRASILIA, Brazil - The lead prosecutor in the trial to oust Brazil’s first female president said Tuesday that Dilma Rousseff had committed “fraud” in her accounting practices, then c...

HARDAN, Iraq - Surrounded by smoke and flames, the sound of gunshots echoing around him, the young man crouched in the creek for hours, listening to the men in his family die. On the other side of the...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Invasive weeds have long threatened to erode dunes on a portion of the Chicago lakefront, but the area recently had to contend with a virtual invasion: “Pokemon Go” cha...

MOSCOW - News agencies report a concert marking Uzbekistan’s 25th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union has been cancelled amid uncertainty about the health of the country’s ho...

PARIS - French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, an outspoken former investment banker who has encouraged startups and more labour flexibility, has quit the socialist government amid speculation that ...