Category Archives: World

LOS ANGELES - For as long as he can remember, Rishi Sharma’s heroes haven’t been sports stars or movie stars or any other kind of stars. They’ve been the U.S. combat veterans who won...

NEW DELHI - Delivering one of India’s biggest-ever economic upsets, Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week declared the bulk of Indian currency notes no longer held any value and told anyone hol...

WASHINGTON - FBI Director James Comey faces a complicated path under a Donald Trump administration. Does he try to serve out the remaining seven years of his term under a president who has publicly qu...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The moon doesn’t get much bigger and brighter than this. On Monday, Earthlings will be treated to a so-called supermoon - the closest full moon of the year. Monday’s...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is keeping Americans in the dark about his earliest conversations and decisions as president-elect, bucking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watch...

PEORIA, Ill. - An Illinois congressman who resigned amid scrutiny of lavish spending - including a “Downton Abbey”-style redecorating of his Capitol Hill office - was charged Thursday in a...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops fired at positions held by the Islamic State group in and around the northern city of Mosul on Thursday but did not advance as they regrouped and cleared neighbourhoods once occ...

BEIRUT - A Syrian Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group north of the country is on the verge of surrounding a wide area north of the IS stronghold of Raqqa, a spokeswoman for the group sa...

TRENCIN, Slovakia - Ten teams from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary on Thursday turned mounds of ground in a competition to crown the fastest gravediggers in central Europe. The Grave Digging Championship...

JERUSALEM - The Russian and Israeli leaders have declared themselves partners in a battle against global terrorism. Dmitry Medvedev told his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, that terrorism thr...