Category Archives: World

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The leader of Cambodia’s now dissolved opposition party was freed on highly restrictive bail Monday after being jailed for a year on a treason charge, the latest governmen...

PARIS - They only went out to play a calm game of petanque and enjoy some late summer warmth by a Parisian canal. By the end of the evening, the three friends had neutralized a knife-wielding attacker...

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence says he’s “100 per cent confident” that no one on his staff was involved with the anonymous New York Times column criticizing President Donald ...

DALLAS - The case against a white Dallas police officer who shot and killed a black neighbour will be presented to a grand jury, which could decide on more serious charges than manslaughter, the distr...

WASHINGTON - Eager to dismiss his critics, President Donald Trump is fabricating the circumstances regarding jobs, the economy and the social safety net. He insists that Social Security and Medicare a...

ZEEBRUGGE, Belgium - With arms flailing and raised voices, a shipping manager and a customs chief in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge talk through all the things that could go wrong if the Brexit talks f...

BENI, Congo - Two times a day, Kasereka Mulanda comes to a new kind of Ebola treatment centre to visit his wife, easing the isolation of a highly contagious disease. Stepping to the clear plastic shee...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Florence exploded into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds up to 140 mph (220 kph) and water that could w...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have detained two artists over a theatre production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Cultural official Shahram Karami told the official IRNA n...

WARSAW, Poland - Human rights activists have held a silent protest in support of Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker on hunger strike in a Russian prison, at a major international conference in Poland...