Category Archives: World

BROCKTON, Mass. - Hundreds of houses of worship are offering sanctuary to people who could face deportation if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his campaign pledge to remove millions of...

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won parliamentary approval Friday for ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw from ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia’s government says at least 43,000 people have been displaced by the powerful earthquake that hit Aceh province. The estimate of the number of the homeless continue...

Tributes poured in for former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95. Politicians, astronauts, educators and others called him a hero, with many mentioning the phrase that fir...

LOS ANGELES - Donald Trump is gone from the boardroom of NBC’s reboot of “Celebrity Apprentice” but he’s kept a business connection to the reality show. President-elect Trump h...

DALLAS - Actor Judge Reinhold has been arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after a confrontation with security agents at Dallas Love Field. A Dallas Police Department statement says the 59-year-ol...

NEW YORK - NBC says that it is shutting down its Breaking News digital service, which provided bulletins on stories through Twitter, a website and its own app. The network said Thursday that the servi...

ST. LOUIS - Two men have pleaded guilty to the $2 million robbery of an armoured car, an inside job believed to be one of the biggest cash heists ever in St. Louis, federal prosecutors said Thursday. ...

WASHINGTON - John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last s...

BEIRUT - Russia said the Syrian army was suspending combat operations in Aleppo late Thursday to allow for the evacuation of civilians from besieged rebel-held neighbourhoods, but residents and fighte...