Category Archives: World

As if loss of air conditioning and refrigeration weren’t bad enough, widespread power outages in hurricane-battered Florida are teaming with structural failures to cause another headache: sewage...

TUMBRU, Bangladesh - Days after fleeing their village on the Myanmar side of the border fence, a group of Rohingya Muslims watched from just inside Bangladesh as yet another house went up in flames. &...

OKEIRBAT, Syria - Government troops and their allies intensified an offensive Friday against Islamic State militants in central Syria, trying to consolidate their control on the area. The Syrian troop...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s leader has escalated his feud with the United States, calling Friday for U.S. Peace Corps volunteers doing development work to be withdrawn. Prime Minister Hun ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Twenty-one young boys who died in a fire at a private Islamic boarding school were buried in Malaysia on Friday amid renewed calls for better regulation of religious schools. ...

MADRID - Spain’s central authorities have increased their control over Catalonia’s regional spending to make sure that no funds are diverted to paying for a suspended independence referend...

SRINAGAR, India - An Indian border guard was killed Friday after Pakistani soldiers fired at several positions along the volatile border in disputed Kashmir, an Indian paramilitary officer said. Pakis...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwanese court sentenced a man from mainland China to 14 months in prison Friday for attempting to buy state secrets, days after a Taiwanese pro-democracy activist pleaded guilty t...

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine defence secretary said Friday that President Rodrigo Duterte has considered the possibility of placing the entire country under martial rule over fears of planned ...

WASHINGTON - Factory activity in New York was strong this month after reaching a three-year high in August. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday that its Empire State manufacturing index d...