Category Archives: World

SAN BRUNO, Calif. - YouTube has tightened its restrictions on firearms videos. The video-serving network owned by Google is banning videos that provide instructions on how to make a firearm, ammunitio...

ROME - A U.N.-led report says 124 million people last year suffered such acute hunger that their lives were at risk, up from 108 million in 2016. The increase was largely attributed to new or intensif...

DEDHAM, Mass. - The case of a Massachusetts man charged with abusing a dog so severely that it had to be euthanized is in the hands of the jury. The prosecution and defence in the animal cruelty trial...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The #MeToo movement has taken off with surprising rapidity in South Korea, toppling male celebrities and a prominent politician in a country where men have long brushed off...

LIMA, Peru - He took office in 2016 as a political outsider boasting that his strong business credentials would buoy Peru’s economy while sweeping away endemic corruption. But with his offer of ...

HONG KONG - In the dead of night last month, two tanker ships pulled alongside each other in the East China Sea. One was a North Korean vessel, the other was the Belize-flagged Wan Heng 11. Lights on ...

MIAMI - Helene Villalonga decided she had to get out of Venezuela for a while when two men, one brandishing a gun, showed up at her party rental business and told her to stop working for local politic...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - A series of recent health scares have raised new concerns about octogenarian President Mahmoud Abbas, reviving anxiety about a potentially chaotic, and even bloody, s...

TEMPE, Ariz. - Video of a deadly self-driving vehicle crash in suburban Phoenix shows a pedestrian walking from a darkened area onto a street just moments before an Uber SUV strikes her. The lights on...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hundreds of people protesting a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in California’s capital city marched into City Hall, disrupted rush-hour traffic on a freeway a...