Category Archives: World

BERLIN - German prosecutors said Wednesday that they have detained a Tunisian man they think may have been involved in last week’s truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. The 40-year-old, ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A prominent activist in Bahrain held for over seven months on charges stemming from a series of tweets was to be released on bail Wednesday until prosecutors ordered him ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Elves against trolls - it sounds like something out of “The Lord of the Rings.” But to Ricardas Savukynas, the battle he’s fighting is no fantasy. The 43-year-ol...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof says he won’t call any witnesses or present evidence while representing himself during the punishment phase of his death penalty trial, b...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - The leaders of Japan and the United States sought to remind the world that even the most bitter enemies can become allies, during a historic pilgrimage to the hallowed waters of...

RENO, Nev. - A trio of significant earthquakes that struck a remote part of western Nevada early Wednesday were big enough to cause as much as $1 billion in damage if they had been centred beneath a b...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korean investigators on Wednesday detained the country’s former health minister as they expand their inquiry into a corruption scandal involving impeached Presi...

PALM BEACH, Fla. - After weeks of giving only brief comments to the media, Donald Trump made a series of public statements Wednesday, applauding the return of 8,000 jobs to the U.S. and hailing his di...

BERLIN - Germany’s agriculture minister is calling for a ban on names such as “vegetarian schnitzel” for meat substitute products, which he argues are misleading. Christian Schmidt t...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Following a year of deadly confrontations between police and citizens across the U.S., police in Alaska’s capital city are spearheading a campaign to turn 2017 into a communi...