Category Archives: World

MANILA, Philippines - Human rights victims of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ regime petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to block and nullify a government directive to have the...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says troops have demolished the home of the family of a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli teenage girl to death. It says the home of 17-year-old Mohammed TarayrehR...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stayed away Monday from a Tokyo shrine that honours convicted war criminals among the nation’s war dead, a bid to avoid controversy with neighbouring c...

LUSAKA, Zambia - Zambia’s president has been re-elected in a closely contested vote over the main opposition leader, the country’s election panel said Monday. However, opposition allegatio...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey has summoned officials from Austria and Sweden to protest against news reports and Twitter comments in the two countries relating to a Turkish constitutional Court ruling on ch...

BANGKOK - Thai authorities said Monday they are investigating whether bombings last week at several popular tourist destinations were related to long-term separatist violence in the country’s fa...

PARIS - The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey bord...

WASHINGTON - Factory activity in New York slowed in early August for the second straight month, and manufacturers in the state cut jobs. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says that its Empire State...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A bus filled with people travelling to their home villages in Nepal to receive the first government payments for victims of last year’s devastating earthquake slipped off a na...

MILWAUKEE - Following a night of violence that left half a dozen businesses in flames, the Milwaukee police chief expressed surprise at the level of unrest that erupted after the fatal shooting of a b...