Category Archives: World

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia on Thursday ratified its greenhouse gas emission targets agreed upon last year at the U.N. climate meeting in Paris. Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull told Parliament that...

NEW DELHI - Throughout his campaign, Asian nations were a regular target of President-elect Donald Trump’s speeches: China is a trade manipulator; Japan and Korea don’t contribute enough f...

AMMAN, Jordan - Liam Neeson got a little break from being famous. Sitting on the floor of a community centre courtyard with two dozen local teens, he listened attentively as young Syrian refugees - wh...

SEATTLE - A man opened fire on a crowd outside a convenience store in downtown Seattle, wounding five people and setting off an intense police search, authorities said. Seattle Assistant Police Chief ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Su Shan and her partner are raising 5-month-old twins together, but only one of the women is their legal parent. That could soon change as Taiwan appears set to become the first place...

TOKYO - A Japanese official says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump next week. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters Thursday that Abe and Trump...

NEW YORK - Protecting the Earth may not be a laughing matter, nor, for many Americans, is the outcome of the presidential race. Even so, comedians including Seth Meyers, John Oliver and George Lopez d...

CINCINNATI - Jurors are set to resume deliberations in the murder trial of a white former police officer who said he feared for his life before fatally shooting an unarmed black man during a traffic s...

LOS ANGELES - An investigation into whether Brad Pitt was abusive toward his son on a private flight in September says the case has been closed with no finding of abuse by the actor, a source familiar...

WASHINGTON - A fractured, discontented electorate handed Donald Trump the presidency, allowing him to breach a region that Democrat Hillary Clinton was banking on in her bid for the presidency. Key ba...