Category Archives: World

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraq’s special forces worked Sunday to clear neighbourhoods on the eastern edge of Islamic State-held Mosul as bombings launched by the extremist group elsewhere in the country kil...

WOODRUFF, S.C. - A South Carolina man killed at least seven people in a hidden crime spree that lasted more than a decade and only was uncovered when police rescued a woman chained at the neck in a st...

WOODRUFF, S.C. - The Latest on the investigation after a missing woman was found chained inside a storage container (all times local): 6 p.m. Authorities have found another body buried at the rural So...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May has shrugged off an adverse court ruling on her government’s plans to leave the European Union and maintains that Brexit will be carried out in full. ...

ISTANBUL - A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in Turkey’s southeast, following a claim by the Islamic State group for the same attack. TAK, also known as t...

BERLIN - Volkswagen says German prosecutors have widened their investigation of the emissions scandal to include the chairman of the company’s board of directors. Hans Dieter Poetsch was VW̵...

BEIRUT - Kurdish-led Syrian forces began an offensive Sunday to liberate the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, clashing with the extremists north of the Syrian city and warning ne...

NEWARK, N.J. - Two children and a woman were fatally stabbed at a Newark home during a rampage Saturday and three other people were injured, authorities said. The attack, which Newark Mayor Ras Baraka...

WOODRUFF, S.C. - When he was 15 and facing charges he raped a neighbour after forcing her into his home at gunpoint and tying her up, Todd Christopher Kohlhepp’s father told court officials the ...

Istanbul governor says police fired shots in the air at Istanbul’s main airport when two suspects on a motorcycle refused to stop. Governor Vasip Sahin tweeted early Sunday morning that the two ...