Category Archives: World

PALU, Indonesia - As officials began burying hundreds of dead in a mass grave Monday, thousands of survivors of a devastating earthquake and tsunami converged on the airport of this heavily damaged In...

BERLIN - Authorities say they successfully rescued six people from a hot air balloon that collided with a power line tower in western Germany and became snared 70 metres (230 feet) above the ground. C...

LAS VEGAS - The marquees on the glimmering Las Vegas Strip dimmed their lights for three minutes Monday night as officials slowly read the 58 names of the people killed one year earlier in the country...

TOKYO - The celebratory crowds in Okinawa chanted the unusual first name of the southern Japanese island’s newly elected governor, shouting, “Denny! Denny! Denny!” The scene highligh...

BERLIN - German police have arrested seven men on suspicion of forming a “far-right terrorist organization” in the eastern city of Chemnitz and planning to carry out attacks against foreig...

BERLIN - A German court said Monday it has approved the extradition of an Iranian diplomat wanted in Belgium on suspicion he was part of a failed plot to bomb an Iranian opposition rally near Paris. V...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched six ballistic missiles as well as drone bombers early Monday toward eastern Syria, targeting militants it blamed for an attack on a military pa...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North and South Korean troops began removing some of the land mines planted at their heavily fortified border on Monday, Seoul officials said, in the first implementation o...

LONDON - A year after it became an unwilling focus for Britain’s #MeToo movement, the Old Vic Theatre says it is trying to stamp out abuses of power in all workplaces. The London theatre company...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California has become the first state to require publicly traded companies to include women on their boards of directors, one of several laws boosting or protecting women that Gov...