Category Archives: World

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela is nearing a showdown, with President Nicolas Maduro vowing to install a new constituent assembly that will trump every other branch of government and opposition leaders...

BANGKOK - Floods in Thailand’s northern and eastern regions have killed at least 23 people and left two missing with damage estimated at around $300 million. Ten provinces have been flooded due ...

PARIS - After ravaging northern Corsica, wildfires are now raging in the southern half of the French Mediterranean island, approaching the famous hikers’ route known as the GR20. Parts of a fire...

MANILA, Philippines - Washington is seeking talks on how North Korea can be suspended from Asia’s biggest security forum as part of a broader effort to isolate Pyongyang diplomatically and force...

DECATUR, Ga. - Authorities say a suspect is dead and a police officer wounded after both were shot just outside Atlanta. News outlets report four DeKalb County police officers confronted the suspect s...

MIAMI - The United States cannot legally return a former Panamanian president to face political espionage charges in Panama, his lawyers argued Thursday, pointing in federal court to what they call fl...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Deaths in U.S. coal mines this year have surged ahead of last year’s, and federal safety officials say workers who are new to a mine have been especially vulnerable to fatal ac...

WARSAW, Poland - Polish investigators questioned Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, for more than eight hours Thursday as a witness in an investigation into the 2010 plane crash that kill...

TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his Cabinet on Thursday, seeking to repair his tattered approval ratings by installing well-known moderates in key roles. Abe said he would focus on bread-...

LONDON - The Bank of England cut its growth forecast for Britain on Thursday, saying it expects a “sluggish” economy as household incomes are squeezed by a rise in inflation that followed ...