Category Archives: World

NEW DELHI - A rare summer cyclone that tore through parts of South Asia killed at least 34 people in India and 15 in neighbouring Bangladesh and smashed thousands of thatched-roof huts, officials said...

PANAMA CITY - Panama’s Electoral Court has declared opposition candidate Laurentino Cortizo the winner of the country’s presidential elections. The court said Cortizo of the Democratic Rev...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military lifted protective restrictions on residents in the south on Monday, while Gaza’s ruling Hamas militant group reported a cease-fire deal had been reached to end t...

NEW YORK - It was called “collateral” - nude photos and other embarrassing material that female members of an upstate New York self-improvement group turned over to their “masters...

NEW ORLEANS - Diana Ross says she feels “violated” by an airport screener who touched her between her legs after she performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In a series of...

MOSCOW - A Russian airliner burst into flames while making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport Sunday evening, and at least 40 people died, officials said. The Sukhoi SSJ100 op...

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Police in Cyprus recovered a second suitcase containing human remains Sunday from a contaminated lake where a military officer who confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls ...

LONDON - Britain’s Conservative government and opposition Labour Party have a duty to strike a compromise Brexit agreement to end months of political deadlock over Britain’s exit from the ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria - Pope Francis urged Bulgarians on Sunday to open their hearts and homes to migrants, arguing that a country like Bulgaria, which is losing so much of its population to emigration, sho...

JERUSALEM - Gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, killing at least four Israelis and bringing life to a standstill across the region in the bloodiest fighting since ...