Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials believed last month that near-term risks to the U.S. economy had subsided and that an interest rate increase could soon be warranted. But they did not indicate w...

LONDON - A jilted and jealous British woman was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison Wednesday for the January murder of a woman she considered her love rival. Sarah Williams shot 60-year-old Sadi...

LANSING, Mich. - Michigan residents still may be allowed to use the state’s long-standing straight-party voting option in the November election after a federal appeals court on Wednesday rejecte...

BERLIN - Four wheels bad, two wheels good. That’s what German police must have thought when their car got stuck on a narrow path while pursuing a moped-riding suspect. Rather than give up, one o...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - More than 500 passengers and crew were evacuated from a burning ship about a mile off Puerto Rico’s north coast on Wednesday, and many required medical care, though there...

BEIRUT - In a move that could reverberate across the Middle East, Iran confirmed Wednesday that Russia is using its territory to launch airstrikes in Syria even as a second wave of Moscow’s bomb...

WASHINGTON - Russia’s use of an Iranian air base to bomb targets in Syria sends a message to Washington as it weighs a military partnership with Moscow: Join us or we’ll look to your enemi...

MANILA, Philippines - An Indonesian sailor swam to freedom Wednesday almost two months after he was abducted from a tugboat in the southern Philippines by Abu Sayyaf militants who threatened to behead...

NATUNA ISLANDS, Indonesia - Indonesia marked its Independence Day on Wednesday by sinking 60 foreign ships seized for fishing illegally in the country’s waters. Maritime and Fisheries Minister S...

BERLIN - Backpacks and other large bags will be banned from this year’s Oktoberfest and a fence will be erected in an effort to increase security after recent attacks rattled Germany, Munich cit...