Category Archives: World

NEW YORK - The hulking machines of “Transformers” are no longer box-office behemoths in North America. But they’re still big in China. Michael Bay’s “Transformers: The La...

BISMARCK, N.D. - A federal judge’s order for more environmental review of the already-operating Dakota Access oil pipeline has several potential outcomes, all of which could spark even more wran...

ROME - The Italian government on Sunday made 5.2 billion euros ($5.8 billion) of resources immediately available to keep operative two banks that the European Central Bank has deemed “failing or...

BOISE, Idaho - A large sequoia tree with a history rooted in conservation was standing in the way of progress. More than a century after it was planted as a sapling in a doctor’s yard in Boise, ...

ISTANBUL - Turkey’s president on Sunday rejected a demand by major Arab states to remove Turkish troops from Qatar, among a sweeping list of ultimatums that the United States has described as &#...

ROME - Japan has marked the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties with the Holy See with a performance of ancient traditional Noh theatre in Rome. At the performance Saturday in Rome at the Palazzo dell...

NEW YORK - Thousands of people lined the streets for gay pride parades Sunday in coast-to-coast events that took both celebratory and political tones, the latter a reaction to what some see as new thr...

LONDON - Prince Harry says he once “wanted out” of the British royal family. In an interview published in the Mail on Sunday, the prince said the time he spent in the army was “the b...

LONDON - The list of high-rise apartment towers in Britain that have failed fire safety tests grew to 60, officials said Sunday, revealing the mounting challenge the government faces in the aftermath ...

FRANKFURT - The global economy has picked up and prospects for the next few months are the best in a long time. But the recovery is maturing and faces risks from populist rejection of free trade and f...