Category Archives: World

SANTA SUSANA, Portugal - Portugal’s Pego do Altar reservoir looks like disused quarry now, its bare, exposed slopes rising up steeply on each side and shimmering in the sun as it holds barely 11...

STOCKHOLM - The centre-right grouping that has governed Norway the past four years retained a narrow hold on power in national elections, according to near-complete results early Tuesday. With 95 per ...

YUEYANG, China - A Taiwanese pro-democracy activist pleaded guilty Monday in a Chinese court to subverting the power of the state, but his wife dismissed the trial as “a political show” an...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - The Bangladeshi prime minister was travelling Tuesday to struggling refugee camps that have absorbed hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar in re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is expected to sell its fanciest iPhone yet for $1,000, crossing into a new financial frontier that will test how much consumers are willing to pay for a device that’s beco...

TOKYO - North Korea says it will make the United States pay a heavy price if a proposal Washington is backing to impose the toughest sanctions ever on Pyongyang is approved by the U.N. Security Counci...

AMMAN, Jordan - The world must do more to help Syrian refugee children get an education, actress Priyanka Chopra said after chatting and joking with young refugees at an after-school centre in Jordan&...

BEIRUT - Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri blasted Monday after his brief detention upon arrival in Lebanon over previous visits to Israel people who accused him of normalization with the Jewish sta...

CONSTANTIA, N.Y. - Authorities say a New York man was joking when he showed up at a neighbour’s house with handcuffs attached to his wrist and claimed to have just shot a state trooper. The neig...

GENEVA - Swiss authorities are investigating the crash of a train locomotive into a string of passenger rail cars during a manoeuvring operation that injured 27 people, though none seriously. Police a...