Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Pointing toward possible confrontation, Donald Trump’s selection for secretary of state likened Beijing’s island-building in the South China Sea to a takeover of another count...

BEIJING - China on Thursday stressed mutual respect and co-operation with the U.S. in response to tough talk from Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, who said the administration would bl...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s pick to run the CIA told Congress on Thursday that he accepts the findings in an intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the U.S. election with the goal of ...

WASHINGTON - It was a bombshell story, emerging on the eve of Donald Trump’s first news conference as president-elect: U.S. intelligence officials had presented Trump with unsubstantiated claims...

WARSAW, Poland - American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream some Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have U.S. troops on their soil as a deterrent against R...

PARIS - France’s government has quietly backtracked on a policy that allowed children to leave the country without their parents’ permission, after years of complaints from families of rad...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he will announce soon whether he will run for South Korea’s presidency, as he returned home and strongly hinte...

Hong Kong’s No. 2 government official said Thursday that she was resigning to prepare for a leadership bid for the southern Chinese city’s top job. Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said she tend...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s prime minister said Thursday that an upcoming conference in Paris aimed at reviving peace talks with the Palestinians was “rigged” and that Israel was not bound ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli media are reporting that police questioned the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an investigation into allegations that he improperly accepted gifts from wealthy...