Category Archives: World

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The crisis in Ethiopia is a "stain on our conscience," the United Nations humanitarian chief said, as children and others starve to death in the Tigray region under what the U.N....

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - A riot in a penitentiary in coastal city of Guayaquil killed 24 and injured 48 more Tuesday, Ecuadorian officials said. A police and military operation managed to regain control ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's prime minister said Tuesday that he plans to hold a referendum to modify the country's constitution by February, and he hopes to organize presidential and legislat...

CHICAGO (AP) - A historian devoted to keeping alive the stories of long-dead victims of racial violence along the Texas-Mexico border and a civil rights activist whose mission is to make sure people w...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole. Anne Arundel County Judge Mic...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas inmate was executed Tuesday evening for fatally stabbing two Houston-area brothers during a robbery in their home more than 30 years ago. Rick Rhoades, 57, was execute...

BENI, Congo (AP) - A panel commissioned by the World Health Organization has identified more than 80 alleged cases of sex abuse during the U.N. health agency's response to an Ebola outbreak in Congo, ...

An explosion in an apartment building in central Gothenburg in Sweden injured up to 20 people on Tuesday, according to the Swedish news agency TT. The explosion took place in the early hours of the mo...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation's largest-known natural gas leak have reached a $1.8 billion settlement with a utility, attor...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the sea. The Joint Chiefs of Staff says the launch was made off the North's eastern coast on Tuesday mo...