Category Archives: World

ROCKFORD, Ill. - An Illinois police officer has delivered his son in a hotel parking lot. The Rockford Register Star reports (http://bit.ly/2j16aTg ) Rockford officer James Nachampassack was on duty e...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Aid agencies were struggling to cope with a nonstop flood of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, where some 146,000 have arrived hungry and terrified after fleeing renew...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Dozens of people were injured in clashes between South Korean protesters and police Thursday as the U.S. military added more launchers to the high-tech missile-defence syst...

BUDAPEST, Hungary - The European Union’s top court on Wednesday rejected legal action by Hungary and Slovakia seeking to avoid accepting refugees under an EU-wide plan, a decision seen as a vict...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia’s economy has grown for 26 years without a recession, an extraordinary achievement in a volatile world still aching from the global financial crisis. But many Aus...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Irma lashed Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds late Wednesday, leaving nearly 900,000 people without power as authorities struggled to get aid to small Ca...

TROUTDALE, Ore. - The Latest on wildfires burning across the U.S. West (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The U.S. Coast Guard has closed the Columbia River to all vessel traffic east of Portland, Oregon, b...

BOSTON - The Red Sox staged their own impromptu Boston marathon and wearily won it, adding a game to their AL East lead on an eventful day at Fenway Park. Hanley Ramirez hit an RBI single in the 19th ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local): 10:15 p.m. Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis says his government has ordered a mandatory evacuation of islands in the souther...

HOUSTON - The Latest on the aftermath of Harvey (all times local): 6:30 p.m. The nation’s largest oil refinery is starting to reboot after shutting down ahead of Harvey’s onslaught. Motiva...