Category Archives: World

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalia’s government has ordered the United Nations envoy to the country to leave, amid questions over the arrest of the al-Shabab extremist group’s former deputy leader w...

COPENHAGEN - Six passengers were killed when a Danish train sustained damage while crossing a bridge that was closed to cars because of high wind Wednesday, and authorities investigated if falling car...

TOKYO - Japanese Emperor Akihito waved on Wednesday to throngs of well-wishers eager to see his final New Year’s appearance before abdicating in several months. “I am truly happy to celebr...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as Brazil’s president Tuesday, taking the reins of Latin America’s largest and most populous nation with promises to overhaul myriad aspects ...

MEXICO CITY - The governor of Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca is condemning the slaying of a local mayor shortly after he took office. Gov. Alejandro Murat confirmed the killing of Tlaxiaco Ma...

LAUREL, Md. - NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from Earth that looks to be shaped...

MOSCOW - Labouring through sub-freezing temperatures, Russian rescue workers were digging into a sprawling heap of jagged rubble from a collapsed apartment building when one heard the faintest sound. ...

ATLANTA - A newspaper reports that Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank and his third wife are getting divorced. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quotes an unidentified representative for Blank as sayin...

WASHINGTON - U.S. ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman met in Moscow on Wednesday with a Michigan man who has been detained on espionage charges as the American government seeks answers about his arrest....

BERLIN - A German man who repeatedly drove into crowds and injured eight people in apparent intentional attacks against foreigners has been ordered kept in detention pending possible charges, police s...