Category Archives: World

ANKARA, Turkey - Up to 60 migrants may have been trapped in a boat that sank in an eastern lake last week, Turkey's interior minister said Wednesday. Turkey launched a search-and-rescue mission involv...

BERLIN - The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who earned renown in his own right as a director of an acclaimed German boys' choir, has died at 96. The Regensburg ...

LONDON - Britain's foreign secretary said Wednesday China's new national security law for Hong Kong "is a clear and serious violation" of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the agreement that paved t...

BANGKOK - Thailand has begun a fifth phase of relaxations of COVID-19 restrictions, allowing the reopening of schools and high-risk entertainment venues such as pubs and massage parlours that had been...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin's main political project of the year - a constitutional vote that would allow him to extend his rule until 2036 - drew closer to completion as Russia held a n...

BEIRUT - With Beirut's airport partially reopening from a three-month virus shutdown, the government is hoping thousands of Lebanese expatriates will return for the summer - and bring dollars desperat...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan on Wednesday opened an office to facilitate migration from Hong Kong following China's passage of a national security law for the former British colony seen as sharply restrict...

DENVER - Five-term Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton was upset in Tuesday's Republican Party primary by Lauren Boebert, a pistol-packing businesswoman, ardent defender of gun rights and border wall supp...

Hong Kong's leader strongly endorsed the new security law China's central government is imposing on the semi-autonomous territory in her speech marking Wednesday's anniversary of its handover from col...

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a live address Tuesday that the country's coronavirus death rate is under control, but that the country is at a "critical juncture." Modi's sixt...