Category Archives: World

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - South Sudan’s plan to hold elections next year risks “deepening and extending” an already devastating civil war, the United Nations warned Friday. Haile Menke...

VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia - Pope Francis brought together thousands of victims of Colombia’s half-century-long conflict with their former victimizers, presiding over a prayer for reconciliation Fr...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The South Korean government must pay 37 million won ($33,000) to a man who was enslaved on a salt farm for several years and was stopped from escaping by police, a court ru...

LONDON - Growing up in a small Italian farming town, Andrea Guerini Rocco dreamed of pursuing a career in economics in a big, bustling city. Three years ago, he thought that city would be London. He d...

NEW YORK - A Greek Orthodox church taking shape next to the World Trade Center memorial plaza will glow at night like a marble beacon when it opens sometime next year. It also will mark another step i...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - The U.N. said that an “alarming number” of 270,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar by crossing into Bangladesh in the last two weeks. The new...

MEXICO CITY - The Latest on the Mexico earthquake (all times local): 10:25 p.m. Mexico’s state oil company is reassuring the country that fuel supplies will not be interrupted despite a magnitud...

MEXICO CITY - One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Mexico struck off the country’s southern coast, toppling hundreds of buildings and sending panicked people fleeing into the st...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Georgia’s governor on Thursday ordered nearly 540,000 coastal residents to evacuate inland ahead of Hurricane Irma as authorities warned the storm had the potential to strike as ...

WASHINGTON - Republican Congressman Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, leader of an influential caucus of GOP moderates in the House, announced Thursday he will not seek re-election to an eighth House term...