Category Archives: World

CHILMARK, Mass. - Adding a touch of politics to his vacation, President Barack Obama on Monday urged Democrats to campaign aggressively for the next 80 days to elect presidential candidate Hillary Cli...

BERLIN - Swiss police say a search has been carried out at the residence in neighbouring Liechtenstein of a man who attacked passengers on a train with a knife and burning liquid. Saturday’s att...

BERLIN - Turkey’s foreign minister says Ankara needs defenceco-operation with countries outside NATO because some Western partners are unwilling to sell his nation equipment or exchange informat...

MANILA, Philippines - Human rights victims of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ regime petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to block and nullify a government directive to have the...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says troops have demolished the home of the family of a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli teenage girl to death. It says the home of 17-year-old Mohammed TarayrehR...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stayed away Monday from a Tokyo shrine that honours convicted war criminals among the nation’s war dead, a bid to avoid controversy with neighbouring c...

LUSAKA, Zambia - Zambia’s president has been re-elected in a closely contested vote over the main opposition leader, the country’s election panel said Monday. However, opposition allegatio...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey has summoned officials from Austria and Sweden to protest against news reports and Twitter comments in the two countries relating to a Turkish constitutional Court ruling on ch...

BANGKOK - Thai authorities said Monday they are investigating whether bombings last week at several popular tourist destinations were related to long-term separatist violence in the country’s fa...

PARIS - The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey bord...