Category Archives: World

LOS ANGELES - Justin Timberlake, U2, Cate Blanchett and Salma Hayek are joining an hour-long live television special about reinventing American high schools. Organizers announced Thursday that Kelly C...

BANGKOK - Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in a Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and pages ripped from Islamic texts that were left on the ground. That intensifie...

BANGKOK - Two weeks after violence erupted in western Myanmar, minority Rohingya Muslims continue to flood into neighbouring Bangladesh every day. The military said it was carrying out “clearanc...

ALBANY, Wyo. - Vast stands of dead timber in the Western U.S. have forced firefighters to shift tactics, trying to stay out of the shadow of lifeless, unstable trees that could come crashing down with...

BEIJING - China supports further United Nations action in response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test but also wants to see renewed efforts to begin dialogue involving all sides, Foreign Minis...

NEW DELHI - An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for a series of bombings that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. A fifth man was given 10 years in...

MANDAN, N.D. - President Donald Trump made an overt pitch for Democrats to support his tax overhaul plan, singling out a North Dakota Democratic senator whose vote would be prized by the White House. ...

WASHINGTON - When in doubt, President Donald Trump has a ready-made response to any questions: “We’ll see.” On Wednesday, Trump delivered his go-to line repeatedly. Asked if he would...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s eldest son cast his meeting with a Russian lawyer last year as simply an opportunity to learn about Hillary Clinton’s “fitness, character or qua...

GENEVA - The maker of Hot Pockets wants to go vegetarian, California-style. Nestle, the world’s biggest food and drinks company, is buying husband-and-wife startup Sweet Earth, which sells froze...