Category Archives: World

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A federal judge blocked three new abortion restrictions in Arkansas minutes before they were set to take effect Wednesday, including a measure that opponents say would likely force...

NEW YORK - Equifax will pay at least $700 million - and potentially much more - to settle lawsuits over a 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and similar sensitive information of...

KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine has formally launched his presidential bid for the 2021 election. The singer, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, announced his c...

NEW DELHI - India sent a spacecraft to explore water deposits on the far side of the moon in a successful launch Monday after a technical problem caused a week's delay. Scientists at the mission contr...

VIENNA - Yukiya Amano, the Japanese diplomat who led the International Atomic Energy Agency for a decade and was extensively involved in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and the cleanup of the...

BEIRUT - Multiple airstrikes hit a busy market in a rebel-controlled town in northwestern Syria on Monday, killing at least 27 people and turning several buildings into piles of rubble, according to o...

NEW YORK - The new documentary "The Great Hack" captures how Facebook's cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy. But it doesn't prove the filmmake...

JERUSALEM - Israeli work crews on Monday began demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of an east Jerusalem neighbourhood, in one of the largest operations of its kind in years. The d...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens never really put down his pen. Without opinions and dissents to write following his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2010, Stevens chos...

BEIJING - China said it will not renounce the use of force in efforts to reunify Taiwan with the mainland and vowed to take all necessary military measures to defeat "separatists." In a national defen...