Category Archives: World

COPENHAGEN - A gunman shot a Danish policeman in the head Tuesday outside a police station in suburban Copenhagen, briefly prompting security outside police stations to be stepped up across the countr...

WASHINGTON - The productivity of American workers rose in the July-September quarter at the fastest pace in two years while labour costs slowed after a big jump in the spring. Productivity increased i...

JERUSALEM - In a first such move, Israel has denied entry to a foreign activist involved in efforts to boycott the Jewish state. Israel’s public security and interior ministers said on Tuesday t...

PHILADELPHIA - A suburban Philadelphia judge settled one of two key pretrial issues in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial when he ruled on Monday that the jury could hear Cosby’s damaging t...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - Some rain fell in southern Madagascar last week, a rare piece of good news for a drought-hit region where nearly 1 million people face severe hunger because of failed harves...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkish authorities have forcibly evicted tens of thousands of people in security operations in a predominantly Kurdish district of southeastern Turkey, a human rights group said ...

ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court agreed Tuesday to extradite three Turkish servicemen who were part of an eight-person helicopter crew that fled to Greece after a failed military coup, a decision that c...

BRUSSELS - Britain may not have two years to negotiate its divorce from the European Union after all. The EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit warned Tuesday that the country will have less than 18 m...

TEL AVIV, Israel - Tel Aviv residents woke up Tuesday to an unusual site - a golden statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed prominently in front of City Hall in an act of protest. Itay Z...

WARSAW, Poland - Poland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that the country would refuse to detain and extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the U.S. The ruling upholds the decision of a lower...