Category Archives: World

PARIS - France’s defence minister says three French soldiers have been killed in Libya where France has special forces operating. In a statement Wednesday, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian sa...

BERLIN - Britain will not start exit talks with the European Union until “our objectives are clear” - and that won’t be this year, Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday, at her f...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A Czech court convicted an American of killing four of his relatives and sentenced him to life in prison. Judge Michal Zamecnik said Wednesday that Kevin Dahlgren, 24, fatally...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s parliament has passed a charged bill that would allow the assembly to oust a sitting lawmaker deemed to be inciting against the state. The bill, which was passed early Wedne...

BEIJING - A seaplane making its inaugural flight crashed into a highway bridge outside Shanghai on Wednesday, killing five people on board, local authorities and state media said. The Cessna 208B, ope...

Jerusalem’s mayor says he will forgo the city’s annual gay pride parade because it is offensive to religious residents. Nir Barkat says in an interview published Wednesday that the gay com...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian officials have banned the playing of “Pokemon Go” from the presidential palace. Hastily printed warnings that say “Playing or hunting Pokemon prohibit...

BERLIN - A 45-year-old German woman has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of four of her newborn babies whose bodies were found at her apartment in a Bavarian town. A total of eight babie...

CLEVELAND - A street vendor outside the Republican convention needs barely a nanosecond to reply when asked to identify his top-selling T-shirt. Joe Nester motions to the red, white, blue one atop his...

CLEVELAND - After weeks of planning and one ferocious outburst that upstaged nearly everything on the Republican National Convention’s first day, conservatives’ feisty but always improbabl...