A Pakistani man has been arrested in the 2005 killing of a British woman police officer who was gunned down as she responded to a robbery in the city of...
January 16, 2020
Taiwanese marines staged drills Thursday as part of a series of military exercises following the reelection of pro-independence President Tsai Ing-wen. The exercises focused on of neutralizing the threat from...
January 16, 2020
A pinch in the leg, a squeal and a trickle of tears. One baby after another in Malawi is getting the first and only vaccine against malaria, one of history's...
January 16, 2020
As Egypt marks the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Suez Canal, marine biologists are bemoaning one of the famed waterway's lesser known legacies — the invasion of hundreds...
January 16, 2020
Specialist firefighters have saved the world's last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefighters winched from helicopters to...
January 16, 2020
Less-organized migrants, tighter immigration control by Guatemalan authorities and the presence of U.S. advisers have reduced the likelihood that the hundreds of migrants who departed Honduras will form anything like...
January 16, 2020
Japan's government said Thursday a man treated for pneumonia after returning from China has tested positive for the new coronavirus identified as a possible cause of an outbreak in the...
January 16, 2020
Video shows a funnel of smoke rotating above a bushfire near Burra, Tumbarumba, two days earlier. Bushfires have scorched blueberry fields near Tumbarumba, with some growers planning to bulldoze the...
January 16, 2020
A Philippine volcano belched smaller plumes of ash Thursday but shuddered continuously with earthquakes and cracked roads in nearby towns, which were blockaded by police due to fears of a...
January 16, 2020
The United States called Wednesday for a reduction in the more than 16,000-strong peacekeeping force in Mali and a new focus on protecting civilians because parties to a 2015 peace...
January 15, 2020
He was so enamored with Haiti that he wrote several books about the country and its repressive politics, built his first home in the capital and was honored with the...
January 15, 2020
Authorities said Wednesday they have arrested and frozen the bank accounts of the grandfather and father of an 11-year-old boy who killed his teacher and himself in northern Mexico last...
January 15, 2020
Canada's transport minister said Wednesday his country is demanding official status in Iran's investigation of the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines jet in Tehran last week. Iran admits its...
January 15, 2020
Former Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said Wednesday he is running to be the leader of Canada's Conservative Party MacKay tweeted "I'm in. Stay tuned." MacKay also served as defense...
January 15, 2020
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration executive order that gives state and local officials discretion on whether or not refugees would be allowed to resettle in their...
January 15, 2020
China's U.N. ambassador warned Wednesday against further escalation between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region and expressed hope that a Security Council meeting called by Beijing will encourage...
January 15, 2020
With just days remaining before the mandate of a regional anti-corruption mission in Honduras is set to expire, backers fear the four-year-old effort could be in its death throes. The...
January 15, 2020
A lawsuit filed by federal prosecutors in the Virgin Islands says multimillionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein used two private islands in the U.S. territory to engage in a nearly two-decade...
January 15, 2020
Puerto Rico's former Education Secretary Julia Keleher — once considered a rising star and crusading reformer in education circles — has been indicted on allegations she used school land for...
January 15, 2020
The bears have cute names — Bubble, Feather, Snowflake and the like — and look so soft and huggable when caught on video by remote cameras that study their habits....
January 15, 2020
Guatemala detained a former lawmaker and said four more were wanted for arrest Wednesday for alleged corruption, a day after they left office amid a change of government and lost...
January 15, 2020
Israel announced Wednesday that it had started exporting natural gas to Egypt as part of an agreement reached between the two countries in December. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said in...
January 15, 2020
A black German lawmaker said Wednesday that bullet holes were found in the window of his constituency office in the eastern city of Halle. Karamba Diaby said on Facebook that...
January 15, 2020
A spokesman at the McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in Tennessee says the local sheriff's office is responding to an active shooter situation that has the base on lockdown....
January 15, 2020
Travelers on the Mexico City subway system often blame authorities for broken-down escalators at subway stops, but Metro officials have another explanation: vast amounts of pee. Somehow, urine is penetrating...
January 15, 2020
Mexican authorities say they have found a clandestine burial pit with at least five corpses in a town where President Andres Manuel López Obrador got his political start. Prosecutors in...
January 15, 2020
Greece's center-right government on Wednesday said it is creating a separate ministry of migration affairs as the country struggles to cope with a high number of arrivals of migrants and...
January 15, 2020
The European Union's top enlargement official on Wednesday held out new hope that the block will start accession talks within months with North Macedonia and Albania, whose bids were frustrated...
January 15, 2020
Syrian government warplanes struck a market and an industrial area Wednesday in the last territory in the hands of rebel groups in the country's northwest, killing at least 15 people,...
January 15, 2020
Kosovo's president on Wednesday denounced what he called “an international amnesty” for Serbia's crimes in the 1998-1999 war. Hashim Thaci spoke after a commemorative ceremony in the southern Kosovo village...
January 15, 2020
London Mayor Sadiq Khan pledged 300,000 pounds ($390,000) to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation in Poland on Monday, arguing that the institution plays a vital role in educating Londoners visiting the site...
January 15, 2020
Hundreds of Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula, in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the...
January 15, 2020
Albania's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday expelled two Iranian diplomats for activities "not in line with their status.” A ministry statement said the two diplomats, Mohammad Ali Arz Peimanemati and Seyed...
January 15, 2020
The United Nations' top court announced Wednesday that it will issue a decision next week on a request to order Myanmar to halt what has been cast as a genocidal...
January 15, 2020
The European Union executive has come to the aid of Poland, which is involved in a bitter dispute with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Poland's role in World War II....
January 15, 2020
Two beekeepers staged a sticky protest Wednesday outside Germany's Agriculture Ministry against the continued use of a controversial herbicide. Sebastian and Camille Seusing poured a bucket of honey onto the...
January 15, 2020
Turkey's state-run news agency said Wednesday that Egyptian police raided its office in Cairo and detained four of its staff members. Anadolu Agency said it did had no information on...
January 15, 2020
Israel's military said Wednesday that Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired four rockets at southern Israel. Two were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, it said, and...
January 15, 2020
Hungarian police on Wednesday recommended filing drug dealing charges against two Dutch men arrested in August at a popular music festival. Budapest police said they found 20 kilograms of pre-rolled...
January 15, 2020
The Tass news agency reports that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev submitted his resignation to President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. Russian news agencies said Putin thanked Medvedev for his service...
