Category Archives: World

BEIJING - A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death Monday in a sudden retrial in a drug smuggling case that is likely to escalate tensions between the countries over the arrest of a top Chine...

LOS ANGELES - A whirlwind romance is leading to an engagement for actor Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger. Pratt posted a photo of his 29-year-old partner sporting an engagement ring on Instagr...

MADRID - More than 100 firefighters and emergency workers in southern Spain searched Monday for a 2-year-old toddler who fell into a narrow and deep borehole. Rescuers have been unable to get into the...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - If Mike Pompeo was surprised, he didn’t show it. But the secretary of state had woken up in the capital of Saudi Arabia on Monday to find that President Donald Trump had t...

MOSCOW - The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBT activists in Russia charged Monday. T...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A federal judge on Monday put a nationwide hold on Trump administration rules that allow more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control. U.S. District Judge ...

PARIS - Anti-government protesters and political rivals of President Emmanuel Macron criticized a sweeping “letter to the French” he issued after two months of weekly demonstrations, sayin...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May made a frantic last push Monday to swing lawmakers’ support behind her seemingly doomed Brexit deal, warning that its defeat risked scuttling the U.K....

BANGKOK - Unusually high levels of smog worsened by weather patterns are raising alarm across Asia, with authorities in Thailand’s hazy capital Bangkok handing out face masks and preparing to se...

Singapore’s foreign minister warned Monday of “consequences” if neighbouring Malaysia continues to escalate a dispute over waters claimed by the city state. Addressing Parliament on ...