Category Archives: World

BOSTON - Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has been honoured in Boston by a sexual assault legal defence group. The Victim Rights Law Center presented its 2017 Leadership Award to the renowned author, jour...

WAUKESHA, Wis. - The second of two Wisconsin girls charged with repeatedly stabbing a classmate to impress horror character Slender Man will plead guilty in a deal that will send her to a state mental...

BANGKOK - Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra appears to be staying in the Mideast commercial hub of Dubai after fleeing a criminal conviction, Thailand’s prime minister said Thursday...

The U.N. Security Council’s first open meeting on Myanmar in eight years highlighted the body’s deep divisions: China and Russia supported the Southeast Asian country’s government wh...

STAVANGER, Norway - The Nobel Peace Prize does more than recognize the past achievements of individuals. By honouring causes and movements, the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee often is encouragi...

RICHMOND, Va. - The developers of a disputed natural gas pipeline on the U.S. East Coast are considering a major expansion of the project into South Carolina, according to remarks made by an energy co...

TOKYO - A surge of popularity for a freshly minted opposition party in Japan is making Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to call a snap election look riskier than initially thought. Abe disso...

WASHINGTON - The United States delivered an ominous warning to Americans on Friday to stay away from Cuba and ordered home more than half the U.S. diplomatic corps, acknowledging neither the Cubans no...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Vanuatu officials on Thursday ordered the complete evacuation of an island in the Pacific archipelago where a rumbling, belching volcano is threatening to blow. Boats were so...

MIAMI - A 12th patient has died after being taken from an overheated Florida nursing home that lost its air conditioning during Hurricane Irma, officials confirmed on Friday. Dolores Biamonte, 57, die...