Category Archives: World

MIAMI - Rivers surged across a large section of the Dominican Republic on Thursday as a broad area of low pressure headed east to the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas, officials said. The U.S....

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Surviving South Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan’s military in World War II will be eligible to receive around 100 million won (about $90,000...

WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods surged in July, lifted in part by the biggest increase in orders in a key investment category since January. Orders for durable ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Republican nominee Donald Trump is linking his “movement to take back the country” to Britain’s surprising vote to leave the European Union. The architect of the wit...

LONDON - British lawmakers on Thursday demanded that social media do more to police users who promote extremism, arguing that companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter are “consciously failing...

CAIRO - Egypt’s Foreign Ministry says the family of an Egyptian boy who crossed the Mediterranean Sea on his own to find medical help abroad for his sick brother, will leave for Italy within day...

BAGHDAD - Iraq’s minister of defence has received a no-confidence vote from parliament just as Iraqi forces retook a key northern town near the Islamic State-held city of Mosul. Khaled al-Obeidi...

The maker of EpiPens offered patients more help to pay for its costly emergency allergy shots but didn’t budge Thursday on the $608 price. The announcement from Mylan N.V. triggered a new round ...

JOHANNESBURG - South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has admitted himself to a Cape Town hospital for treatment of a recurring infection, according to his family fou...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. - The remains of an Army captain who was previous lost and unaccounted for following World War II will return to his hometown in Rhode Island this weekend. WPRI-TV reports (http://bit....