Category Archives: World

BEIRUT - Lebanon’s U.S.-backed military is gearing up for a long-awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of Islamic State militants from a remote corner near Syrian border, seeking to end a years-l...

BAGHDAD - A powerful Iraqi Shiite militia said Tuesday that at least 40 of its militiamen were killed in an attack the previous day on its positions across the border in Syria. The militia blamed the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Polls closed across Kenya after millions voted peacefully Tuesday in a fiercely contested election pitting President Uhuru Kenyatta against challenger Raila Odinga in the East African...

MADRID - Spanish police said Tuesday they have arrested a Turkish-Swedish reporter and writer in Barcelona on an international arrest order from Turkey for alleged terrorism. Barcelona National Police...

PARIS - A French teen who tried to attack soldiers guarding the Eiffel Tower is being sent back to a psychiatric hospital. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that a psychiatric expert de...

TEHRAN, Iran - After decisively winning re-election almost three months ago, Iran’s president on Tuesday proposed a new Cabinet for his second term that cuts out the hard-line Revolutionary Guar...

KUWAIT CITY - Two U.S. envoys have arrived in Kuwait at the start of a tour of Mideast states aimed at resolving a diplomatic rift between Qatar and four Arab countries. The official Kuwait News Agenc...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A citizens review board met behind closed doors Tuesday to revisit a police department’s decision that its officer was justified in killing a black man whose wife was begging t...

SYDNEY, Australia - Police in three countries arrested 17 people on Tuesday and seized nearly 2 tons of drugs in connection with what Australian authorities said was an effort by organized crime group...

LAS VEGAS - A Tuesday court date looms in Wisconsin for a British cybersecurity researcher arrested last week in Las Vegas on charges that, years before he won acclaim for helping to stop a worldwide ...