Category Archives: World

MOSCOW - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday officially announced his bid to run in the 2018 presidential election, a move that political observers say puts pressure on President Vladi...

NEW YORK - President Barack Obama says any president who shuns daily intelligence briefings would be “flying blind” on national security matters, a stiff push-back against Donald TrumpR...

LONDON - A 48-hour strike by train drivers crippled rail services Tuesday in southern England as a long-running dispute delayed and cancelled journeys for hundreds of thousands of London commuters. Th...

ROME - Premier Paolo Gentiloni easily won a vote of confidence Tuesday night from the Italian Parliament’s lower chamber for his new government, overcoming opposition outrage that his cabinet an...

WASHINGTON - A man inspired by an internet conspiracy theory to fire an assault weapon inside a pizza restaurant warned friends that his “raid” could involve killing people, according to c...

WASHINGTON - For members of Congress, there’s nothing more American than baseball, apple pie and big defence contracts. After President-elect Donald Trump attacked the cost of the F-35 Joint Str...

BEIRUT - Syrian rebels reached a cease-fire deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in an effective surrender on Tuesday, as Russia declared all military action had stopped and the Syrian government had ...

NEW DELHI - Twelve people have been arrested in southern India for not standing while the national anthem was being played at an international film festival, police said Tuesday. The arrests Monday fo...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - An enraged mob in central Indonesia forced its way into a police station and beat a man to death Tuesday, hours after he was arrested for allegedly stabbing seven children at an e...

ISLAMABAD - A spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines says the national carrier’s chief has resigned following last week’s plane crash that killed all 47 people onboard. Danyal Gilan...