Category Archives: World

VIENNA - Austrian police say a man who seriously wounded two train passengers with a knife will be charged with attempted murder once the investigation into the assault is completed. In a statement We...

BEIRUT - Iran allowed Russian warplanes to take off from its territory to bomb targets in Syria on Tuesday, an unprecedented move that underscores the deepening co-operation between two powerhouses he...

CANBERRA, Australia - The world’s biggest miner, BHP Billiton, on Tuesday reported a $6.4 billion loss, the worst full-year result in the Anglo-Australian company’s history. BHP said the r...

GILFORD, N.H. - Kelly Ayotte cannot escape the shadow of Donald Trump. Even here, among the fried dough stands and pig pens of New Hampshire’s summer fairs, the Republican senator faces difficul...

LOS ANGELES - A wildfire broke out Tuesday and spread at a staggering pace in every direction through drought-parched canyons east of Los Angeles, burning at least a dozen buildings - including some h...

ANKARA, Turkey - Prosecutors in western Turkey have demanded a life sentence for U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey accuses of masterminding the failed coup, the state-run news agen...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania’s first elected female attorney general announced her resignation Tuesday, a day after being convicted of abusing the powers of the state’s top law enforceme...

In the country’s long history of racial strife, a few cities have become flashpoints: Los Angeles. Chicago. Ferguson, Missouri. Baltimore. But by many measures, there is no tougher place to be b...

A Chicago-based communist revolutionary group blamed by Milwaukee’s police chief for stoking a second day of violence said that some of its members did go there to “support a revolution...

Police in the nation’s capital say they’re investigating videos circulating on social media that appear to show a male officer pinning a young female against a patrol car with her feet dan...