Category Archives: World

KAIKOURA, New Zealand - In terms of human life, the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit New Zealand this month was relatively merciful: two fatalities. But geologically, it moved roads and mountains and...

BRUSSELS - The president of the European Parliament announced Thursday that he will leave his post and go into German politics, where he could become the main opponent to Chancellor Angela Merkel in n...

Tokyo residents woke up Thursday to the first November snowfall in more than 50 years. And the Japan Meteorological Agency said it was the first time fallen snow on the ground was observed in November...

ISLAMABAD - Britain’s top diplomat on Thursday urged Pakistan and India to find a lasting solution for Kashmir a day after a deadly exchange of fire killed more than a dozen people in the disput...

ISTANBUL - Three Turkish soldiers were killed in northern Syria in what the Turkish military said was a pre-dawn Syrian airstrike on Thursday, an account disputed by Syrian activists, who said the sol...

BERLIN - German airline Lufthansa says it has cancelled 912 flights on Thursday as pilots strike for a second day in a long-running dispute over wages. Lufthansa said Thursday that since the strikes w...

YEHUD, Israel - The Israeli company that has built high-tech fences along the country’s volatile borders is now trying to build a bridge to the Trump administration - hoping to use its experienc...

BEIJING - The wife of one of China’s most prominent human rights campaigners said Thursday that he had disappeared during a trip to visit relatives of a detained rights lawyer. Jiang Tianyong, a...

BRISBANE, Australia - A bystander dressed only in underpants helped police arrest an unlicensed driver who allegedly crashed a car into an Australian takeout restaurant on Thursday then fled. Daniel M...

BEIJING - The death toll from the collapse of scaffolding at a construction site in eastern China rose to 74, state media said Friday, in the country’s worst work-safety accident in over two yea...