Category Archives: World

BOGOTA - Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos says Pope Francis will pay a visit to his country in the first quarter of next year. The pope promised in February to visit Colombia if the count...

ROME - As far as city leaders are concerned, Rome’s bid for the 2024 Olympics is finished. The city council voted in favour of scrapping the bid on Thursday, a week after Mayor Virginia Raggi re...

HOBOKEN, N.J. - The Latest on the commuter train that crashed into a station in New Jersey (all times local): 5:45 p.m. The National Transportation Safety Board says the engineer in the fatal New Jers...

WASHINGTON - Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in August, as a shortage of properties for sale is weighing on the market. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday its seasonally ...

NEW YORK - CNN said Thursday that its analyst Corey Lewandowski, the former Donald Trump campaign manager, has cut all financial ties to the campaign and is no longer receiving monthly severance payme...

HOBOKEN, N.J. - National Transportation Safety Board investigators held off questioning the engineer in the deadly Hoboken train crash because of his injuries Friday and struggled to lift clues from t...

CAIRO - Amnesty International accused the Sudanese military on Thursday of using chemical weapons against civilians, including very young children, in one of the most remote corners of the Darfur regi...

NEW DELHI - India said Thursday it carried out “surgical strikes” against militants across the highly militarized frontier that divides the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan, in an...

LAGOS, Nigeria - As many as 75,000 children will die over the next year in famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram if donors don’t respond quickly, the U.N. Children’s Fund is warning...

BEIRUT - Syrian government forces continued their push into rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Thursday as international officials issued dire warnings of an ongoing humanitarian disaster in Syria̵...