Category Archives: World

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia, for years one of the world's most prolific executioners, dramatically reduced the number of people put to death last year, following changes halting executi...

TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel's education minister says he is banning groups that call Israel an "apartheid state" from lecturing at schools - a move that targets one of the country's leading human rights...

BEIJING - Chinese state media say 12 out of 22 workers trapped for a week by an explosion in a gold mine are alive, as hundreds of rescuers seek to bring them to safety. The Xinhua News Agency said Mo...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea's president on Monday urged the incoming Biden administration to build upon the achievements and learn from the failures of President Donald Trump's diplomatic ...

WASHINGTON - Kamala Harris will make history on Wednesday when she becomes the nation's first female vice-president - and the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to hold that ...

CAIRO - The death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan's West Darfur province climbed to at least 83, including women and children, a doctor's union and aid worker said, as s...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Billionaire Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong is heading back to prison after a South Korean court sentenced him to two and a half years over his involvement in a 2016 corruption ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. defence officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, prompting the FBI t...

Small groups of right-wing protesters - some of them carrying rifles - gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday as National Guard troops and police kept watch to preven...

FAIR HAVEN, Vt. - A goat and a dog who were each elected mayor have helped raise money to renovate a Vermont community playground. The oddball idea of pet mayor elections to raise money to rehabilitat...