Category Archives: World

KARACHI, Pakistan - Gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire on a vehicle carrying a senior police officer in southern Pakistan on Friday, killing him and his guard before fleeing, while just hours l...

BEIJING - China expressed its “strong dissatisfaction” with the U.S. over the Navy’s latest freedom of navigation operation in which a warship sailed past one of China’s man-ma...

MADRID - Security workers checking carry-on luggage at Barcelona’s airport have resumed partial strikes that threaten more queuing chaos for passengers at one of Europe’s busiest airports....

BRUSSELS - EU officials say 15 European Union members plus China and Switzerland have reported receiving contaminated eggs or egg products in a growing food scandal. Several producers in the Netherlan...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A Jakarta family who joined the Islamic State group in Syria out of an apparently naive belief it would give them a better life is now in Iraq and in contact with the Indonesian g...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Democrats used a bus emblazoned with the words “Drive for our Lives” to gin up opposition to vulnerable House Republicans who voted against Obamacare with the aim of u...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia announced Friday that its prime minister will make an urgent visit to Laos as he demanded its government withdraw soldiers he claimed are encroaching on territory in no...

JOHANNESBURG - Minutes after South African President Jacob Zuma narrowly escaped a no-confidence vote this week, he was singing and dancing outside parliament with a throng of supporters from his Afri...

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines will cull at least 200,000 birds after confirming its first avian flu outbreak, but no animal-to-human transmission has been reported, officials said Friday. Agri...

NEW ORLEANS - With debris from last weekend’s flash flood still piled up on sidewalks and their city under a state of emergency, New Orleans residents looked ahead warily on Friday to the prospe...