Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - The government’s top official overseeing the $1.5 trillion student loan market resigned in protest on Monday, citing what he says is the White House’s open hostility toward prot...

NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Stocks rose on Wall Street, sending the Nasdaq above 8,000 for the first time, after the White House said it has re...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Iran warned Monday that re-imposed U.S. sanctions would cripple its economy and plunge the volatile Middle East deeper into crisis as it urged the United Nations’ highes...

PHOENIX - Sen. John McCain expressed his deep gratitude and love of country in his final letter and implored Americans to put aside “tribal rivalries” and focus on what unites. Rick Davis,...

PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron pushed Monday for Europe to take more responsibility for its own defence, saying the continent’s security shouldn’t rely so much on the United Stat...

CANBERRA, Australia - The first asylum seeker boat has reached Australia in more than four years, a government minister said Monday, as new concerns were raised about the psychological state of childr...

HANOI, Vietnam - Sen. John McCain’s Vietnamese jailer said he respected his former inmate and felt sad about his death, as others in Vietnam paid their respects to the former U.S. Navy pilot who...

KAMPALA, Uganda - To chants of “People power! Our power!” Ugandan pop star turned government critic Bobi Wine was freed on bail Monday, ending days of incarceration during which he and som...

PARIS - A French prosecutor said Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred is being held in police custody on suspicion of committing a rape in the town of Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera. Draguignan prosecut...

YANGON, Myanmar - A Myanmar judge on Monday postponed the verdict against two Reuters journalists accused of illegally possessing official documents in a case that has drawn attention to the faltering...