Category Archives: World

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A strong and shallow earthquake struck off Taiwan’s east coast on Sunday night, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said th...

RALEIGH, N.C. - The renewed version of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to lift poor people is holding its first national mobilization, with actions and events planned Monday in 32 sta...

CAYCE, S.C. - Federal investigators spent a second day Monday at the site of a deadly train crash in South Carolina, where an Amtrak train was mistakenly sent off a main track and down a side spur ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Russia investigation, Democratic and Republican lawmakers said...

BERLIN - A senior European Union official is warning that the 28-nation bloc will hit back if U.S. President Donald Trump takes trade measures against it. EU budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger tol...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says President Donald Trump’s hostility to the 2015 nuclear deal is dampening foreign investment in the energy sector despite the lifting of sanctions. Oil Minister Bijan Zan...

AKOBO, South Sudan - Child abductions have risen during South Sudan’s civil war as desperate people try to make a living. One child, no matter the age, is said to sell for 20 cows, worth about $...

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats embarked Sunday on a final push for an agreement on a new German government, but negotiators adjourned for ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani Taliban on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack the day before that killed 11 soldiers and wounded 13 in the Swat Valley. Authorities say Saturday’s attac...

JERUSALEM - Israel on Sunday said it plans to legalize an isolated West Bank outpost in response to the murder of one of its residents in a shooting attack last month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah...