Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump misplaced the blame for what ails the coal industry and laid a shaky factual foundation for hi...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the landmark Paris climate accord sends an unmistakable message to the world: America First can mean America Alone. Trump’s mo...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to immediately reinstate its ban on travellers from six mostly Muslim countries, saying the U.S. will be safer if the policy is put in...

SINGAPORE - The Trump administration is aiming for continuity in Asia policy, sticking broadly with the approach its predecessors have taken by emphasizing diplomacy and co-operation with allies, U.S....

KABUL - At least six people were killed Saturday when a trio of suicide bombers struck a funeral attended by senior government officials, just three days after a powerful truck bomb in one of the most...

AKRON, Ohio - Police say a 1-year-old Ohio boy had to be revived with naloxone after he overdosed on opioids. Police say the boy’s 9-year-old brother called 911 Thursday evening after he noticed...

HONG KONG - A bottle of forbidden liquor produced last year by Chinese activists to mark the 1989 military crackdown on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square has arrived in Hong Kong after a trip around th...

OXON HILL, Md. - Ananya Vinay showed little emotion as she plowed through word after mystifying word in the final rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Later, as she stood beside the confetti-c...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit rose in April to the highest level since January. The politically sensitive trade gap with China registered a sharp increase. The Commerce Department said Friday th...

TOKYO - A bill allowing the 83-year-old emperor to abdicate has cleared the more powerful chamber of Japan’s parliament, setting the stage for his elder son Crown Prince Naruhito to succeed the ...