Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates edged higher this week, though rates remain at historically low levels. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the average for the benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mort...

NEW YORK - Macy’s plans to close about 100 stores next year and boost its online investments, the nation’s largest department store chain said Thursday, as it tries to become more nimble i...

NEW YORK - The Huffington Post is going to be without a Huffington. Arianna Huffington says she is stepping down as editor-in-chief to focus on a new health startup. She founded The Huffington Post in...

BEIJING - A high-pressure steam pipe exploded at a power station in central China on Thursday, killing 21 people and injuring five others, an official newspaper reported. The blast occurred at a power...

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his campaign are expressing ideas similar to those espoused by white supremacists, legal, media and civil rights experts say. In additio...

ANKARA, Turkey - Two Turkish military attaches working in Greece have fled the country for Italy after the failed military coup attempt, Turkey’s foreign minister said Thursday, while reports sa...

CAIRO - U.S.-backed forces in Libya have liberated “70 per cent” of the city of Sirte, the Islamic State group’s last bastion in the North African country, after seizing several stra...

LONDON - Ecuador said Thursday it’s ready to set a date for Swedish prosecutors to question Julian Assange inside its London embassy - a potential breakthrough in the years-long international im...

GUATEMALA CITY - A former Guatemalan soldier deported from the United States in handcuffs and flanked by security maintained his innocence in the face of accusations that he helped massacre more than ...

BERLIN - Germany’s interior minister on Thursday unveiled proposals to boost security after recent attacks, including making it easier to deport foreigners deemed dangerous and stripping dual na...