Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Dozens of convicts serving time in U.S. prisons for terrorism-related offences are due to be released in the next several years, raising the question whether that’s something Americ...

SYDNEY, Australia - U.S. military officials called off a search and rescue operation on Sunday for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coa...

CARACAS, Venezuela - A newly installed constitutional assembly ousted Venezuela’s defiant chief prosecutor Saturday, a sign that President Nicolas Maduro’s embattled government intends to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A U.S.-based campaign data company confirmed Saturday that its CEO was detained in Kenya and faced deportation after working on the opposition’s campaign ahead of Tuesday’...

MANILA, Philippines - Southeast Asia’s top diplomats slammed North Korea with a sharp rebuke Saturday over its intercontinental ballistic missile tests and admonished Pyongyang to comply with it...

CARACAS, Venezuela - The Latest on Venezuela’s political crisis (all times local): 11:30 p.m. Venezuelan opposition activist Leopoldo Lopez has been returned home after being taken back to jail ...

SAO PAULO - More than 3,500 Brazilian soldiers are occupying a series of slum communities in northern Rio de Janeiro as part of efforts to combat a spike in violence. The troops moved into the Complex...

KIGALI, Rwanda - The United States said Saturday it was “disturbed by irregularities observed during voting” in Rwanda’s election, which longtime President Paul Kagame won with nearl...

WASHINGTON - A drop in the unemployment rate to a 16-year low raises a tantalizing question about the job market: How much better can it get? Earlier this year, economists worried that the low unemplo...

HAMDEN, Conn. - A Connecticut boy got an unpleasant surprise when he awoke to find a skunk in his bed. Hamden Police say the 13-year-old was awoken in his upstairs bedroom by the skunk, which had clim...