Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - While Hurricane Florence barrelled through the Carolinas, a different type of storm was brewing within the federal disaster relief agency tasked with responding to the fallout. The fate o...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The Korean leaders’ surprisingly substantive summit announcement is a huge step toward a durable peace on the Korean Peninsula - and a Nobel Peace Prize for Kim Jong ...

PINHAO, Portugal - The scorching late summer sun of northern Portugal is ripening the black, super-sweet grapes that will go to make what European Union rules say is the only wine in the world that ca...

SALZBURG, Austria - European Union leaders agreed Thursday to enter talks with Egypt to help stem the flow of migrants entering Europe from Africa, offering to step up economic co-operation and the pr...

JUBA, South Sudan - With “staggering brutality,” South Sudan government soldiers and allied militia targeted civilians by raping them, burning them alive, running them over with armoured v...

NAGA, Philippines - A massive landslide buried dozens of homes near a central Philippine mountain Thursday, killing at least 21 people and sending rescuers scrambling to find survivors after some sent...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia’s stunning political reforms are now threatened by long-standing ethnic tensions that have roared back to life since a young prime minister took power just five ...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - As the teacher pointed to the large touch screen, her first-grade classroom came alive. With the click of a link, an animated character popped up on the screen, singi...

WASHINGTON - Robert Mueller has been busy. In just the last two weeks, the special counsel has secured the co-operation of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, dispensed with the c...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The U.S. Justice Department will double the funding it gives tribes for public safety programs and crime victims as it tries to tackle the high rates of violence against Native Ame...