Category Archives: World

UKHIYA, Bangladesh - The little boy emerges into view amid a chorus of panicked shouts and the thunder of feet from the horde sweeping past us. He is slumped over the shoulder of a man, his skinny arm...

LONDON - Businesses could face red tape at the border, customers could see higher credit card fees, patients could endure delays to medical treatment and there could even be a sperm shortage if Britai...

LONDON - The British government has published a series of documents laying out its plans for what it will do in the event it fails to secure a deal on its future relationship with the European Union f...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia’s beleaguered prime minister was resisting pressure to quit as opponents from within his party struggled on Thursday to show that he had lost the government’...

MARACAIBO, Venezuela - In a city once called the Saudi Arabia of Venezuela for its vast oil wealth, residents of Maracaibo now line up to buy spoiled meat as refrigerators fail amid nine months of rol...

SAMJIYON, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Thousands of North Korean “soldier-builders” in olive green uniforms and bright red hardhats are doing everything from digging ditc...

NEW YORK - Advocates of ordaining women as Roman Catholic priests cite the church’s unfolding sex abuse scandals as powerful arguments for their cause, while acknowledging the high unlikelihood ...

PHOENIX - The Honduran mother said she felt repeatedly pressured to sign documents she wasn’t given time to read, so she lashed out at an immigration officer, telling him it shouldn’t be t...

WORCESTER, Mass. - Gun control advocates, including one of the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and the parents of one of the victims, are marching 50 miles (80 kilometres) across M...

BEIJING - The United States and China went ahead with tariff hikes on billions of dollars of each other’s automobiles, factory machinery and other goods Thursday in an escalation of a battle ove...