Category Archives: World

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Fatmata Kamara had just stepped outside her house before dawn Monday when she saw the muddy hillside collapsing above her. The only thing she could do was run. She was one of ...

JOHANNESBURG - The wife of Zimbabwe’s president has been accused of assaulting a young woman at an upscale hotel in South Africa, though she did not show up for court Tuesday as police had indic...

BEIJING - The top U.S. military officer told his Chinese counterpart Tuesday that the U.S. and China have “many difficult issues” to work through, during a visit that comes amid tensions o...

FORKED RIVER, N.J. - An abandoned dog that was rescued after being found buried up to its neck in mud has died at a New Jersey shelter. NJ.com reports (http://bit.ly/2uKhBA5 ) the dog named Mabel who ...

MEAUX, France - A security guard who deliberately rammed his car into a crowded pizzeria in France told investigators he was a suicidal habitual drug user and had consumed “a large quantity̶...

BEIJING - China criticized President Donald Trump’s order for a possible U.S. trade investigation of Beijing’s technology policies as a violation of global rules and said Tuesday it will &...

KABUL - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle near an Afghan military checkpoint in the country’s northeastern Kunduz province on Tuesday, killing at least one person,...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - The death toll in flooding and landslides that devastated parts of northern India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh over the past few days has risen to 245, while millions of others ha...

BADOUSH, Iraq - Thousands of Iraqis have fled an Islamic State-held town west of Mosul as Iraqi and coalition warplanes step up strikes ahead of a ground offensive to drive out the militants. Tal Afar...

LONDON - Britain’s prime minister says a government-backed investigation into the west London apartment block fire that killed at least 80 people will focus on the causes of the blaze and regula...