Category Archives: World

MOSCOW - A knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage Saturday in a Siberian city, wounding seven people before police shot and killed him. The Islamic State’s Aamaq news agency hours later c...

HELSINKI - The knife attack in western Finland that left two people dead and seven others wounded is “a likely terror act,” Finland’s intelligence agency said Saturday, while police ...

BERLIN - Left-wing groups and Berlin residents prevented more than 500 far-right extremists from marching Saturday to the place where high-ranking Nazi official Rudolf Hess died 30 years ago. Police i...

JOHANNESBURG - In a tit-for-tat dispute, Zimbabwe blocked flights by South Africa’s government-owned airline on Saturday amid tensions over allegations that Zimbabwe’s first lady assaulted...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Survivors picking through the debris of Sierra Leone’s deadly mudslides were facing the reality Saturday that most, if not all, of the hundreds of people missing are dea...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in the southern Helmand province, killing five Afghan police, provincial police officials said Saturday. Gen. Abdul Ghafar Safi,...

RIPOLL, Spain - A missing imam and a house that exploded days ago became the focus Saturday of the investigation into an extremist cell responsible for two deadly attacks in Barcelona and a nearby res...

RENK COUNTY, South Sudan - The United Nations says attacks against aid workers are increasing in South Sudan. A statement by the humanitarian co-ordinator there, Serge Tissot, says the attacks also pu...

GUAHATI, India - Rising floodwaters have inundated large parts of a famous wildlife reserve park in northeastern India, killing more than 225 animals and forcing hundreds of other animals to flee, the...

ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the country Saturday after more than three months in London for medical treatment but the government gave no details on what has been a...