Bimbimbie. Wamban. Ulladulla. Australia's place names can be a mouthful to pronounce, and it's one of the challenges that Canadian firefighter John Mash has faced after arriving to help battle...
January 10, 2020
The worst had passed, it seemed, and the United States and Iran no longer appeared poised at the edge of war. “All is well!” President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night,...
January 10, 2020
Communities across Australia's fire-ravaged southeast were bracing for a long day of mounting danger on Friday as thousands abandon their homes for evacuation centers and military helicopters dropped emergency supplies...
January 9, 2020
Supporters of allowing humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria through three border crossings called for a vote Friday on a U.N. Security Council resolution similar to one that Russia and China...
January 9, 2020
Britain and Ireland say they have struck a deal to restore the Northern Ireland government, exactly three years after it collapsed amid a feud between the main Catholic and Protestant...
January 9, 2020
Tests conducted on a gold bar found decades ago in Mexico City indicate it was Aztec gold produced around 1520, matching historical accounts of treasure looted by the Spanish conquerors...
January 9, 2020
Miami Heat owner and Carnival Corporation Chairman Micky Arison, along with his wife Madeleine, have pledged more than $1 million to bushfire disaster relief efforts in Australia. The Heat announced...
January 9, 2020
Mexican environmental authorities said Thursday that 292 sea turtles found dead on the country's southern Pacific coast since Christmas died as a result of a red tide algae bloom. Volunteers,...
January 9, 2020
Netflix said Thursday that it had filed a complaint in Brazil's Federal Supreme Court, a day after a judge ordered the withdrawal from the platform of a satirical film depicting...
January 9, 2020
Islamic militants carried out another large attack on Niger's military Thursday, leaving at least 25 soldiers dead along with dozens of jihadists only a month after the worst attack of...
January 9, 2020
An explosion at the crater of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano hurled incandescent rock about a mile (1.6 kilometers) down its slopes Thursday. The blast early also sent a column of ash...
January 9, 2020
In the span of weeks, Iraqis watched with deepening anxiety as their country, long the site of proxy fighting between Iran-backed militias and U.S. forces, has turned into an open...
January 9, 2020
After a year in which the U.S. has been publicly skeptical of dialogue efforts with Nicolás Maduro to solve the crisis in Venezuela, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Thursday...
January 9, 2020
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday evidence indicates an Iranian missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday and that the strike "may have been unintentional." Trudeau says Canadian and...
January 9, 2020
At “Campamento Estrella” all three dozen people and four dogs have a tent or car to sleep in, a generator to keep their cellphones juiced, and coffee — served hot...
January 9, 2020
Ajax and United States defender Sergiño Dest is leaving the Amsterdam club's winter training camp in Qatar amid high tensions in the Mideast, the club announced on Thursday. Ajax said...
January 9, 2020
Leading Moroccan human rights activists warned Thursday of an assault on freedom of expression in the country following the arrest over recent months of 15 journalists, bloggers, rappers and social...
January 9, 2020
A wooden statue portraying President Donald Trump as a vampire was set on fire Thursday in Slovenia, the birthplace of Melania Trump, according to multiple reports. The 26-foot statue featured...
January 9, 2020
At least eight Nigerian soldiers were killed in Monguno, a town in the country's northeast, after extremists staged a deadly attack, according to a witness. Members of the Islamic State,...
January 9, 2020
The fourth and final round of talks between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on Ethiopia's construction of a controversial dam on the Nile River dam has concluded on Thursday without an...
January 9, 2020
A man from Queensland, who lost his family home in northern New South Wales in the Australia bushfires, won $1 million in the lottery and plans to use the money...
January 9, 2020
After years of setbacks and disappointment, two Balkan countries' hopes for launching European Union membership talks could be realized in coming weeks, according to the prime minister of Croatia, which...
January 9, 2020
The latest on Iran-related developments (all times local): 8:10 p.m. The British government says it is investigating “very concerning” reports about the crash of a Ukrainian airliner in Iran, amid...
January 9, 2020
The writing on a famous Viking-era runestone may reflect fears of an approaching climate disaster in 9th century Scandinavia, according to new research by a team of Swedish academics. The...
January 9, 2020
An Israeli psychiatric panel has determined that a woman facing dozens of sex-abuse charges in Australia is fit to stand trial for extradition, the Justice Ministry confirmed Thursday. The decision...
January 9, 2020
A Kosovo court on Thursday ordered an ethnic Albanian Muslim to be remanded in custody pending trial for allegedly inciting terrorism, over a social media posting on last week's U.S....
January 9, 2020
No taking a knee at the Olympics. No hand gestures with political meaning. No disrespect at medal ceremonies. The International Olympic Committee published guidelines Thursday specifying which types of athlete...
January 9, 2020
The body of a Mexican radio journalist was found more than a month after his disappearance, authorities in the state of Michoacan said. Fidel Ávila Gómez had disappeared Nov. 29,...
January 9, 2020
Forensics officials in the western Mexican state of Jalisco are trying to determine how many victims are accounted for in 26 plastic bags of body parts found in a ravine...
January 9, 2020
More than 2,000 people in shelters. Nearly one million without power. Hundreds of thousands without water. The aftermath of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that killed one person, injured nine others and...
January 9, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday watched a naval exercise involving multiple missile launches in the Black Sea. The Kremlin said that Putin watched the maneuvers from the Marshal Ustinov...
January 9, 2020
Sudan's prime minister, accompanied by United Nations officials, embarked on a peace mission Thursday to a rebel stronghold, in a major step toward government efforts to end the country's long-running...
January 9, 2020
Police chased and stuck protesting students with batons after they marched through India's capital Thursday to demand the resignation of a university official following an attack at their school by...
January 9, 2020
For 20-year-old Olivia Tam, a journalism student at Hong Kong Baptist University, Taiwan in the run-up to its presidential election seems a world apart from her hometown. As part of...
January 9, 2020
A South African air force plane caught fire upon landing Thursday at the Goma airport in eastern Congo but there were no casualties, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission...
January 9, 2020
Bosnia's Serbs on Thursday observed a public holiday that has been declared illegal by the country's top court and criticized by other ethnic groups because it celebrates an action that...
January 9, 2020
Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that an imprisoned Catalan politician will remain behind bars despite a European court ruling that his election to the European Parliament gave him immunity. A...
January 9, 2020
British actor Jeremy Irons will head the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival next month, organizers said Thursday. Irons will be jury president at the festival's 70th edition, running...
January 9, 2020
Hundreds of protesters in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia besieged the regional leader's office Thursday seeking his ouster. The demonstrators demanded the resignation of Raul Khadzhimba, who was re-elected to...
January 9, 2020
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz offered his “full support” on Thursday to the country's new justice minister in the face of online hatred over her Bosnian origins. Alma Zadic is one...
