Category Archives: World

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador’s congress cleared the way Friday for Vice-President Jorge Glas to be investigated for allegedly taking bribes from a Brazilian construction giant involved in a sprawlin...

CALGARY - Frontera Energy Corp. (TSX: FEC) says Indigenous communities in Peru are protesting at its operations in an effort to secure negotiations with the Peruvian Government. The Toronto-headquarte...

BRUSSELS - Belgian soldiers shot a man dead in downtown Brussels on Friday evening after he attacked the troops with a knife in what prosecutors described as a “terror attack.” Spokeswoman...

PITCAIRN, Pa. - Police say a Pittsburgh-area woman left her five children alone so she could drive her fugitive boyfriend across the state to avoid arrest. Thirty-four-year-old Tiffany Jackson, of Pit...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The CEO of South Carolina’s state-owned utility is retiring and is the first executive to leave following last month’s failure of a nuclear power project that customers ha...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday emphatically defended the web of regulations the Fed helped enact after the 2008 financial crisis, saying it helped restore the bankin...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas’ governor said Friday he will spare the life of a death row inmate whom the state planned to put to death earlier this year, but he also set a November execution dat...

ATLANTA - Cities across the U.S. are trying to encourage the homeless to find beds of their own, not just a cot for the night. In theory, no one should stay in a shelter very long. Atlanta is putting ...

SAO PAULO - Brazil’s mega-corruption scandal that has ensnared much of its political and economic elite has one sector of its struggling economy booming: the sale of electronic monitoring bracel...

KABUL - The number of people killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital during Friday prayers rose to at least 28 - up from 20 - including women and children, the chief of Kabul̵...