Category Archives: World

ISTANBUL - A bomb placed on a motorcycle exploded Thursday near a police station in Istanbul, wounding at least 10 people, a senior official said. Vasip Sahin, the governor for Istanbul, told reporter...

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to slow its new store openings and pour more money into its online efforts, technology and store remodels, the company said Thursday. The world’s largest re...

LES CAYES, Haiti - Haiti’s death toll jumped late Thursday after rescue crews began reaching remote corners cut off when Hurricane Matthew slammed into the country’s southwest peninsula, t...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A typhoon that battered South Korea this week killed seven people and left three others missing, the country’s safety agency said Thursday. Typhoon Chaba caused stron...

BAGHDAD - Iraq has requested an emergency U.N. Security Council session over the presence of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday, a development that highlights ...

WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: Policing in the United States’ minority communities has been a flashpoint since the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri, Tamir Rice in Ohio, Sandra Bland in Texas and oth...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant was shot and killed Wednesday while answering a burglary report and the suspected gunman was arrested after commandeering his patrol car, ra...

WASHINGTON - Even if your daughters don’t pay much attention to politics, they’d be hard-pressed to have missed Donald Trump’s attack of a former Miss Universe’s weight or comm...

MANILA, Philippines - An independent poll released Thursday showed that more than three-quarters of Filipinos are satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte, even though he is under fire internationally...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Suspected Islamic extremists killed six people in an attack in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia, an official said Thursday, while the al-Shabab extremist group claimed it h...