Category Archives: World

RALEIGH, N.C. - Following is a list of the 26 states participating in the Poor People’s Campaign movement and voter registration this weekend: - Alabama - Arizona - Arkansas - California - Delaw...

CARTHAGE, N.C. - As the Poor People’s Campaign launches a new initiative, its charismatic leader is working with the generation of civil rights leaders who stood by the Rev. Martin Luther King&#...

CHICAGO - The Democratic Party has begun conversations with television networks about a series of presidential primary debates in 2019, a top party official has told The Associated Press. The talks ar...

DUBLIN - Pope Francis faced a lukewarm reception and scattered protests Saturday on his trip to Ireland, with even his vow to rid the church of the “scourge” of sexual abuse and his outrag...

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh - Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees on Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the attacks that sent them fleeing to safety in Bangladesh, praying they can return to the...

ROME - Catholic bishops, tiny Albania and Ireland agreed to take the 140 migrants blocked aboard an Italian coast guard vessel, Premier Giuseppe Conte said Saturday, announcing the end of 10-day stand...

KABUL - Afghan president Asharf Ghani accepted the resignation Saturday of the country’s national security adviser, Mohammed Haneef Atmar, and replaced him with Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. Ham...

SANAA, Yemen - A senior al-Qaida leader was killed in Yemen’s central province of Marib while fighting alongside the government forces battling Shiite rebels, officials and tribal leaders said S...

BEIJING - At least 19 people were killed in a fire at a resort hotel in China’s northeastern city of Harbin early Saturday, the local government said. The disaster added to a string of deadly bl...

DETROIT - Electric car and solar panel maker Tesla Inc. will remain on the public stock exchanges after CEO Elon Musk said Friday that investors have convinced him the company shouldn’t go priva...