Category Archives: World

JERUSALEM (AP) - Soccer fans from Israel and the Palestinian territories will be able to fly directly to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar from Tel Aviv for the first time, soccer's global governing body an...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the bottom of the Atlantic, more than three decades after the tragedy that killed...

PARIS (AP) - France will take in passengers from a migrant rescue ship who have been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea for more than two weeks after Italy refused them entry, the country's interior mi...

CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically with jailed pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who this week escalated a food and water strike demanding his release, coincidi...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Protests in Iran raged on streets into Thursday with demonstrators remembering a bloody crackdown in the country's southeast, even as the nation's intelligence minis...

MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Nicole made landfall early Thursday along the east coast of Florida. The storm was already battering a large area of the storm-weary state with strong winds, dangerous storm sur...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over h...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Jahana Hayes has won reelection for a third term, fending off a challenge from a former state senator in a Connecticut race that national Republicans had targeted and resisting ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Incumbent Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell conceded defeat Wednesday in a close-fought race for New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District, clearing a path toward victory for Democrat...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A man who killed his mother and buried her body in her backyard was executed Wednesday in Texas despite his lawyers' appeals that he should not be put to death because he had ...