Category Archives: World

GENEVA - The Geneva prosecutor’s office says an anonymous caller set off a false bomb alert that prompted a police sweep at the Swiss city’s airport. Spokesman Henri Della Casa of the pros...

STOCKHOLM - Carl-Henrik Hermansson, who led Sweden’s communist party as it broke its allegiance to the Soviet Union, has died. He was 98. The party, now known as the Left Party, said Hermansson ...

KRAKOW, Poland - Pope Francis, deeply saddened by the slaying of an elderly priest during Mass in a church in the French countryside, warned grimly Wednesday that the world is at war, but cautioned ag...

RABAT, Morocco - Morocco’s Interior Ministry says it has arrested 52 people suspected of being part of a cell linked to the Islamic State group. A ministry statement on Wednesday said the arrest...

BRUSSELS - The European Union’s executive branch on Wednesday escalated its dispute over Poland’s democratic credentials, giving Warsaw three months to fix perceived legislative flaws rega...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Hollywood is hosting a benefit for the Pulse nightclub in Florida, where a gunman killed 49 patrons and injured 53 people last month. A spokeswoman for Pulse in Orlando said Tuesday th...

BERLIN - The European Space Agency says it is switching off its radio link to the probe that landed on a comet, after receiving no signal from the lander for a year. The agency says the decision to sh...

LONDON - A U.S. Marine Corps horse who served under fire during the Korean War has been posthumously decorated for bravery. Sgt. Reckless was awarded the Dickin Medal at a ceremony at the Korean War M...

LONDON - Britain’s Channel 5 has removed an episode of children’s series Fireman Sam from its streaming site after a character appeared to tread on a page of the Qur'an. HIT Entertainment,...

TOKYO - “Pokemon Go” players are descending on an atomic bomb memorial park in Hiroshima, and officials of the western Japanese city are displeased. They have asked game developer Niantic ...