Category Archives: World

TEHRAN, Iran - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday strongly backed Iran and its nuclear deal with world powers, saying Moscow opposed “any unilateral change” to the accord after ...

JERUSALEM - Israelis celebrate it. Palestinians despise it. The Balfour Declaration, Britain’s promise to Zionists to create a Jewish home in what is now Israel, turns 100 this week, with events...

WASHINGTON - It has become something of a ritual for U.S. presidents trying to demonstrate their resolve against North Korea’s ever-escalating aggression. Beginning with Dwight Eisenhower’...

TOKYO - Japanese investigators knocked on the door of a suspect’s apartment and asked him about a missing woman. “She is in here,” the man reportedly replied, pointing to a cooler bo...

LOS ANGELES - Christian Bale won what embattled Kevin Spacey lost: the privilege of being name-checked on “This Is Us.” Tuesday’s episode of the NBC drama included a 2008 flashback s...

WASHINGTON - House Republicans would leave intact current tax rules on retirement accounts popular with middle class Americans and maintain a top income tax rate for million-dollar earners as negotiat...

WASHINGTON - The indictment that alleges covert foreign lobbying by two former Trump campaign officials is casting shadows on three powerful Washington lobbying and legal firms, with Democratic as wel...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A military judge on Thursday began deliberating the punishment for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after defence attorneys asked for no prison time while prosecutors sought more than a deca...

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors brought terrorism charges Wednesday against the Uzbek immigrant accused in the truck rampage that left eight people dead, saying he was spurred to attack by the Islamic ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump dismissed George Papadopoulos as a “liar” and a mere campaign volunteer, but newly unsealed court papers outline the former adviser’s frequent con...