Category Archives: World

HAVANA - After his band of bearded rebels won power in 1959, Fidel Castro embarked on a victory tour delivering speeches to cheering crowds stretching from the eastern Cuban city of Santiago to Havana...

BOGOTA - Colombia authorities say they are responding to a plane crash with 72 on board.   More to come. The Canadian Press

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Islamic State group fighters lack the courage to put up long-term resistance in Mosul, despite unleashing hundreds of car bombs that have killed and...

BANGKOK - Thailand’s parliament on Tuesday named Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn as the new king, completing a formal step for the heir to take the throne following the death of his father last mont...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Jovenel Moise, the hand-picked candidate of Haiti’s previous elected leader, apparently won the presidential election outright against 26 rivals, according to preliminary...

HAVANA - Fidel Castro changed the flavour of the milk Cuban children drink at breakfast. He filled Cuban kitchens with energy-saving rice cookers, and he gave a two-hour lesson in their use live on na...

SAN FRANCISCO - Some passengers on San Francisco’s public railway enjoyed free rides during part of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend after hackers infiltrated hundreds of its workers’ comp...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Officials in a Northern California county have known for years that they have security problems with an antiquated jail and recently won $80 million in state funding to help build...

ELOY, Ariz. - A woman from Guatemala died Sunday while in immigration detention in Arizona, marking the third in-custody death nationwide for Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Oct 1. ICE annou...

NEW YORK - The Monday after Thanksgiving is still a time when millions of Americans pause to check out online deals and check off items from their gift list - but a one-day Cyber Monday frenzy appears...