Category Archives: World

POZZALLO, Italy - Italy’s populist government on Tuesday lashed out at France for criticizing its refusal to allow safe harbour for a rescue ship with 629 migrants, instead sending two military ...

SAN FRANCISCO DE SALES, Guatemala - Tourists reached out to feel the heat from the still-smouldering lava, tossed sticks to see them burst into flames or watched a guide toast marshmallows on hot rock...

DALLAS - The Southern Baptist Convention opened its annual national meeting Tuesday in an anxious mood as the denomination’s all-male leadership grappled with the fallout of multiple sexual misc...

BERLIN - While South Koreans cheered with hope and China saw an opening to discuss lifting sanctions on North Korea, some countries in Europe and the Mideast cautioned Tuesday that it was premature to...

SINGAPORE - President Donald Trump wrapped up his five-hour nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with surprisingly warm words and hope for “a bright new future” for Kim̵...

SINGAPORE - After all the hype, all the vows to tackle what’s perhaps the world’s most urgent crisis, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fell short of the kind of d...

SINGAPORE - Donald Trump approached from the right, striding down the long portico at the colonial-era Singapore resort. Kim Jong Un, dressed in his familiar Mao suit, emerged from the left. They met ...

COPENHAGEN - The man at the centre of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, was Tuesday charged with two counts of rape of...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska judge has rejected efforts by the eldest son of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin to bar the media and the public from attending proceedings in an...

SAN DIEGO - Immigration judges generally cannot consider domestic and gang violence as grounds for asylum, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in a ruling that could affect large numbers o...