Category Archives: World

BEIJING - Orville Schell, a longtime China expert, has vivid memories of his first trip to the country back in 1975. Mao Zedong was leading China through the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, and Chines...

MOSCOW - Since a former Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned in Britain a week ago, suspicions about Russia’s possible handiwork have run high - except in major Russian news outle...

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin tourism officials are launching a new television ad campaign spotlighting a wheelchair basketball star and the state’s German heritage. One ad features Matt Scott, a Pa...

BOGOTA - Colombian voters turned to right-wing parties critical of the country’s peace deal with the main leftist rebels and knocked the current president’s party down in congressional ele...

SAO PAULO - Elisangela Santos doesn’t understand why everyone in her neighbourhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo is being told to get vaccinated for yellow fever this year. Yellow fever has long...

WASHINGTON - It started as a bipartisan attempt to curb soaring health care premiums. But Congress’ effort to stabilize the nation’s insurance markets is faltering amid escalating demands ...

CANONSBURG, Pa. - The final day of campaigning Monday before votes are cast in western Pennsylvania’s closely watched congressional election drew a visit by Donald Trump Jr. and lots of door-kno...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Participants in a 1968 Los Angeles high school walkout to protest dropout rates and paddle beatings for speaking Spanish that ended up prompting a wave of Mexican-American youth ac...

YOUNTVILLE, Calif. - Authorities in Northern California have so far been tight-lipped about why a former Army rifleman may have killed three women after a daylong siege at a veterans home in Napa Coun...

NEW YORK - The city’s bid to host the 2012 Games in a rebuilt neighbourhood of rail yards and industrial buildings never came to fruition, but the massive Hudson Yards project rising there now i...