Category Archives: World

BEIRUT - The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 8:30 p.m. A statement by the Syrian armed forces says the northern city of Aleppo has returned to government control, ending a four-year...

IRBIL, Iraq - Zaid Ahmed’s barber shop in the Gogjali district of Mosul was packed with customers Thursday when the first of three car bombs ripped through the outdoor food market outside. Ahmed...

MOSCOW - Russia’s military today can overpower any potential foe but should strengthen its nuclear arsenal, President Vladimir Putin told an annual end-of-year meeting Thursday with defence chie...

COPENHAGEN - A Swedish man is claiming to be the first person in the world to have reached the South Pole in a wheelchair. Aron Anderson said he accomplished the feat on Wednesday after a 21-day journ...

MADRID - Workers at a home for the elderly were among those celebrating Thursday in Madrid after all the tickets with the top prize-winning number in Spain’s 2.3 billion-euro ($2.4 billion) Chri...

BEIRUT - The Syrian government took full control of Aleppo on Thursday for the first time in four years after the last opposition fighters and civilians were bused out of war-ravaged eastern districts...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” until the rest of the world “com...

LOS ANGELES - The party is over at Purple 33. About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub an...

TOKYO - A huge fire that spread to about 140 buildings in a small city on Japan’s western coast was brought under control Thursday night after authorities called in extra firefighters to fight t...

BERLIN - German officials presented mounting evidence Thursday that Anis Amri was behind the wheel of a truck that smashed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, as authorities across Europe p...