Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is pledging restraint on Twitter as president. But you can already tell he’ll be mightily tempted to let loose with those trademark tweets. He tells “60 Minutes&#...

PHILADELPHIA - A student at the University of Oklahoma was temporarily suspended and police are investigating a threat against a Muslim student near the University of Michigan amid racially charged ou...

HAVANA - Colombia’s government and its largest rebel group signed a new, modified peace accord in Havana on Saturday following the surprise rejection of an earlier deal by voters in a referendum...

NEW YORK - Donald Trump may take a victory tour to states that elected him president, an aide said Saturday, as boisterous protests unfolded outside the tower where he holed up with members of his tra...

BEIRUT - Syrian government forces regained control Saturday of areas they lost over the past two weeks to a rebel offensive on the edge of the northern city of Aleppo, ending a major attempt by insurg...

ISTANBUL - Turkish opposition groups protested Saturday in Istanbul after the Interior Ministry shut down 370 civic groups on terrorism-related charges - organizations that included professional assoc...

QUETTA, Pakistan - The death toll from a bomb blast at a Sufi shrine in southwest Pakistan has risen to 50 people with more than 100 wounded, officials said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibi...

LONDON - Prince Harry says Sydney will host the 2018 Invictus Games and is urging wounded military athletes to “bring it.” He made the announcement in a video Saturday that also featured A...

LOS ANGELES - The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says the recipients of its 2016 honorary Oscars have instilled a love of cinema in future filmmakers. President Cheryl Bo...

PARIS - A concert by British pop legend Sting is marking the reopening of the Paris’ Bataclan concert hall one year after suicidal jihadis turned it into a bloodbath and killed 90 revelers with ...