Category Archives: World

HANOI, Vietnam - U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un projected optimism Wednesday as they opened high-stakes talks about curbing Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weapon...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - After 10 years of delay, a federal judge has ruled that three former inmates who say they were tortured at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison can go forward with their lawsuit against a ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - A helicopter flying in bad weather crashed into a mountain in Nepal on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, including the country’s tourism minister, officials said. ...

CAIRO - A fight between two train conductors unleashed a speeding, unmanned locomotive that slammed into a barrier and exploded in the Egyptian capital’s main train station Wednesday, killing at...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s president rejected the resignation of his foreign minister on Wednesday, throwing his full support behind the diplomat who negotiated the country’s nuclear deal with ...

BEIJING - China has unveiled draft regulations on gene editing and other potentially risky biomedical technologies after a Chinese scientist’s claim of helping to create gene-edited babies roile...

BANGKOK - A rich list by wealth compiler Hurun Report shows the market meltdowns in 2018 obliterated $1 trillion in wealth, with more than 212 of China’s richest individuals losing their dollar ...

MELBOURNE, Australia - The most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex abuse was sent to prison on Wednesday and will wait two weeks to learn his sentence for molesting two choirboys in a ...

CHICAGO - R. Kelly’s confidants may have helped the R&B star target underage girls for sexual abuse. That’s according to an attorney for two of Kelly’s accusers. Chicago prosecut...

MUZAFARABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s military said Wednesday it shot down two Indian warplanes in the disputed region of Kashmir and captured a pilot, answering an airstrike a day earlier by India...