Category Archives: World

MARAWI, Philippines - The Latest on militant violence in a southern Philippine city (all times local): 8 a.m. The Philippine military chief says three Malaysians, an Indonesian and possibly Arab extre...

BOGOTA - Colombia’s government is pushing back by 20 days the deadline for leftist rebels to turn over their weapons under a peace deal. President Juan Manuel Santos announced the decision in a ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. - Police are looking for a baby cockatoo reported stolen from a suburban New York pet store. News station CBS2 says the 12-week-old Goffin’s cockatoo was taken Saturday from For Bi...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Philando Castile’s permit to legally carry a gun became a point of focus in the days after he was shot and killed by a Minnesota police officer, with some questioning whether C...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Sometimes it seems like the impassioned people who want to preserve Confederate monuments across the South are reading a different history book than the rest of the nation. In fact,...

SCHNECKSVILLE, Pa. - A young giraffe recently brought to a Pennsylvania zoo has died after injuring his neck during unexplained aggressive behaviour, zoo officials said. Six-year-old Ernie, a Masai gi...

PODGORICA, Montenegro - Montenegro on Monday strongly protested “inappropriate” conduct by Russian authorities against a senior ruling party leader who was prevented from changing planes a...

LAS VEGAS - Fighting erupted during a weekend protest on the Las Vegas Strip amid calls for a police officer to face criminal charges in the death of a black man in custody, leading to 10 arrests, aut...

BUCHAREST, Romania - Moldova’s government is expelling five Russian diplomats from the former Soviet republic. A spokeswoman for the Foreign and European Integration Ministry confirmed Monday th...

SAO PAULO - Heavy rains and flooding have driven tens of thousands of Brazilians from their homes in the country’s northeast and caused at least six deaths, authorities said Monday. The state of...