Category Archives: World

LISBON, Portugal - The Latest on the Portugal forest fires (all times local): 11:55 p.m. Portuguese Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa said the death toll in a forest fire had risen to 62 by ...

NODEIRINHO, Portugal - Survivors emerged Monday with stories of leaping into water tanks and other dramatic escapes from the forest fires scorching central Portugal, and authorities came under mountin...

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government said Sunday that it would suspend offensives against communist guerrillas to reciprocate a similar plan by the insurgents and allow troops to focus on q...

PARIS - The French government has condemned an attack in Colombia’s capital that killed three people, including a young Frenchwoman. In a statement Sunday, the French Foreign Ministry offered su...

WASHINGTON - A member of the president’s outside legal team said Sunday that Donald Trump is not under federal investigation, days after Trump appeared to confirm he was with a tweet about being...

PARIS - French voters gave President Emmanuel Macron’s upstart party a solid victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election, handing the centrist a strong mandate to reshape French politics an...

MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry has criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze a detente with Cuba and his verbal attack on the Caribbean island’s leaders. Russia’s...

KIEV, Ukraine - Thousands of people attended a gay pride parade in Ukraine’s capital amid tight security Sunday. A counterdemonstration by a few hundred ultranationalists resulted in scuffles wi...

BERLIN - Germany’s foreign minister says there may now be a chance of a “soft” British exit from the European Union that keeps the U.K. in the bloc’s single market, but is warn...

BEIRUT - Syrian troops and allied militias met up with Iraqi forces at one crossing point along their shared border Sunday for the first time in years, in a step described as a major achievement by th...