Category Archives: World

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will visit Pearl Harbor with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, wasn’t even born when Japan’s former leader Shigeru Yoshida went there just ...

LONDON - George Michael, the British pop superstar who reached early fame with WHAM! and went on to a solo career lined with controversies and chart-topping hits that blended soul and dance music with...

FRANKFURT - Explosives experts on Sunday defused a large World War II aerial bomb in the southern German city of Augsburg - clearing the way for thousands of evacuated residents to return to their Chr...

VATICAN CITY - Decrying the suffering in Syria, Pope Francis on Sunday wished Christmas peace and hope for all those scarred by war and terrorism, which he said is sowing “fear and death in the ...

CINCINNATI - Prosecutors and attorneys have some studying ahead as they prepare for a redo of the trial of a former University of Cincinnati police officer accused of murder in a racially charged shoo...

For hundreds of protesters, it was cause to cheer when the Obama administration this month declined to issue an easement for the Dakota Access pipeline’s final segment. But that elation was damp...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli government’s furious reaction to the U.N. Security Council’s adoption of a resolution opposing Jewish settlements in occupied territory underscores its fundamental ...

HELENA, Mont. - The push to restrict refugee resettlements and immigration in the U.S. that figured so prominently in Donald Trump’s election is now headed to states that are preparing to conven...

MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota’s first-in-the nation ban on soaps containing the once ubiquitous germ-killer triclosan takes effect Jan. 1, but the people who spearheaded the law say it’s already...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Jennifer Lawrence has visited the Norton Children’s Hospital to spread some holiday cheer. The Courier-Journal reports (http://cjky.it/2hemBpi ) the Oscar-winning actress visit...