Category Archives: World

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-left rivals said Tuesday they would seek a parliamentary vote this week on legalizing gay marriage after the German leader backed off her conservatives...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia is demolishing centuries-old homes in a Shiite town, levelling a historic district that officials say has become a hideout for local militants. The destructi...

BERLIN - German leaders and lawmakers are paying tribute to former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who spearheaded the country’s reunification during 16 years at the helm, in a requiem Mass at Berlin...

FRESNO, Calif. - Regulators in California took a pivotal step on Monday toward becoming the first state to require the popular weed killer Roundup to come with a label warning that it’s known to...

TOKYO - The U.S. Navy paid tribute on Tuesday to seven sailors who were killed when their destroyer collided with a merchant ship off Japan. The Japan-based 7th Fleet said more than 2,000 sailors and ...

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia - Mongolia will hold its first runoff election for president next month after none of the candidates attained the necessary majority in Monday’s voting. Democratic Party ca...

TIRANA, Albania - Albania’s left-wing Socialist Party has secured a second mandate in a general election, winning a majority of seats in parliament, election results showed Tuesday. The election...

NEW YORK - For a president seemingly at perpetual war with “fake news,” the resignation of three CNN journalists over a retracted story about a Donald Trump Russian connection is a gift fr...

BRUSSELS - In a story June 27 about European regulators’ $2.7 billion fine against Google, The Associated Press, relying on incorrect information from a press representative, misspelled the name...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A Dutch appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government was partially liable in the deaths of more than 300 Muslim men killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica mas...