Category Archives: World

An international team has concluded that the Syrian government and Islamic State militants carried out chemical attacks in the conflict-wracked nation during 2014 and 2015, according to a report circu...

MINNEAPOLIS - In stories Aug. 17 and Aug. 24 about a Minnesota police officer’s return to duty following the shooting of a black motorist, The Associated Press cited Baltimore as an example of c...

VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN, Germany - The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent. Petr...

LOS ANGELES - The American Film Institute has cancelled plans to screen writer-director Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” for students this week amid controversies surrounding a ...

KABUL - A brazen, hours-long militant attack on the American University of Afghanistan ended early Thursday after at least 13 people were killed and dozens wounded in the assault on the sprawling camp...

LINTON, Ind. - A Purdue University entomology professor has returned a copy of “The Moths of the Limberlost” that he checked out 60 years ago at age 8. WTWO-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana, rep...

PORTLAND, Maine - President Barack Obama on Wednesday created a new national monument in Maine on 87,000 acres donated by the founder of Burt’s Bees, fulfilling conservationist Roxanne Quimby...

WASHINGTON - US homebuyers pulled back in July, as sales declined amid by a shortage of available properties and steadily rising prices. Sales of existing homes fell 3.2 per cent last month to a seaso...

AMATRICE, Italy - The Latest on the earthquake in central Italy (all times local): 2:30 a.m. New York City’s World Trade Center is honouring the victims of the earthquake in Italy. Gov. Andrew C...

BERLIN - Walter Scheel, who helped shape West Germany’s policy of reconciliation with the communist bloc as foreign minister and later served as his country’s president, has died. He was 9...