Police in Canada's capital of Ottawa said injuries have been reported after a shooting in the central part of the city on Wednesday morning. Ottawa paramedics said they've taken three...
January 8, 2020
Canada's foreign minister said Wednesday he's been in touch with the government of Ukraine upon learning that 63 Canadians died in a Ukrainian passenger jet, just minutes after taking off...
January 8, 2020
Power began returning to Puerto Rico early Wednesday, almost 24 hours after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake damaged the country's principal generation plants and left one dead on the U.S. territory...
January 8, 2020
Pope Francis cautiously waded back into the crowds on Wednesday after video of him swatting away the hand of a pilgrim who grabbed him went viral and sparked a papal...
January 8, 2020
Germany says new asylum applications in the country dropped more than 14% last year, continuing their decline since an influx of migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere in 2015...
January 8, 2020
The Libyan prime minister traveled to Brussels on Wednesday to hold talks with European officials on the conflict in the north African country. A day after the EU top diplomat...
January 8, 2020
A review of fatal encephalitis cases in the southern German state of Bavaria has found that more than twice as many as previously known were tied to a rare animal-borne...
January 8, 2020
For nearly three years after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, Haiti's main public square was a densely crowded tent city packed with makeshift huts made from cardboard, plywood and bedsheets...
January 8, 2020
A Greek court on Wednesday postponed the retrial of seven suspects on murder charges over the 2017 fatal beating of a Texan tourist on an island resort to allow a...
January 8, 2020
Kosovo police on Wednesday said they detained an ethnic Albanian Muslim woman for allegedly inciting terrorism on social media after she deplored the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general....
January 8, 2020
Pope Francis is asking for prayers for Australia as it copes with devastating fires and expressed his solidarity with the country's people. Francis drew a round of applause after he...
January 8, 2020
A decade after France and the U.S. promised to build Haiti a new hospital following the 2010 earthquake, the General Hospital remains mired in problems and concerns about sustainability. …...
January 8, 2020
Tens of thousands of people remain in tent cities in Haiti, where a powerful earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010, claimed 316,000 lives and left 1.5 million homeless. Ten years later,...
January 8, 2020
Ten years after Haiti's Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, Haiti's Catholic Church still has not rebuilt its most iconic structure. … Click to Continue »
January 8, 2020
After its Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake left hundreds of thousands dead, Haiti has made considerable progress in understanding its vulnerability. But the advances, says its top expert, geologist Claude Prépetit,...
January 8, 2020
South Korea has put a 36-year-old Chinese woman under isolated treatment amid concerns that she brought back a form of viral pneumonia that has sickened dozens in mainland China and...
January 8, 2020
An Afghan military helicopter crashed on Wednesday in the country's western Farah province, killing the two pilots on board, a defense ministry official said. The Mi-35 chopper crashed around 11...
January 8, 2020
A Somali official says a car bomb has killed three people and wounded six others at a checkpoint in the capital. Salah Omar, a spokesman for the Mogadishu mayor, says...
January 8, 2020
Sri Lankan police have suspended a leading investigator who probed the killing of journalists and alleged abductions during the government of the current president's brother for discussing a politically sensitive...
January 8, 2020
As his country burned, Australia's prime minister was cursed and jeered out of a town, called an “idiot,” a “moron” and worse, and skewered at home and abroad for his...
January 8, 2020
The European Union said Wednesday it “will spare no efforts” in its attempts to keep alive an international deal preventing Iran from developing atomic weapons. EU Commission President Ursula von...
January 8, 2020
Ever since his brother was shot dead last month during protests in northern India, Mohammad Imran has lived in fear of getting snatched up by the police. Along with other...
January 8, 2020
All passengers and crew on board a Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed near Tehran on Wednesday morning have died, a spokesman for Iran's Red Crescent humanitarian organization said on state...
January 8, 2020
Some commercial airlines on Wednesday rerouted flights crossing the Middle East to avoid possible danger amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran. Australian carrier Qantas said it was...
January 8, 2020
Cars, cots and plastic chairs became temporary beds for hundreds of families who lost their homes in southwest Puerto Rico as a flurry of earthquakes struck the island, one of...
January 8, 2020
Chaotic scenes unfolded at Venezuela's National Assembly on January 7 as Juan Guaido and supporters forced their way into the legislative building after a standoff with armed forces. Guaido was...
January 8, 2020
Iranian state TV is reporting a Ukrainian airplane carrying 180 passengers and crew has crashed near an airport in the capital, Tehran. There is no immediate word on injures. The...
January 8, 2020
With flames climbing as high as a 15-story building and menacing his supposedly fireproof home on three sides, Justin Kam ran to the laundry room and opened the door. Inside...
January 8, 2020
Thunderstorms and showers brought some relief for firefighters battling deadly wildfires across Australia's drought-parched east coast on Wednesday, but also raised concerns that lightning will spark more fires before dangerous...
January 8, 2020
An Iranian leader tweeted a picture of his country's flag after an airstrike on an Iraqi base housing U.S. troops in retaliation for the killing of Qassem Soleimani. President Donald...
January 7, 2020
It's common knowledge that the Caribbean is a magnet for destructive hurricanes. The catastrophic passage of Hurricane Maria across Puerto Rico two years ago was grim reminder of the region's...
January 7, 2020
More than 40 suspects have now been identified in connection with the Nov. 4 slaughter of nine U.S. dual-national women and children in northern Mexico, prosecutors said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors...
January 7, 2020
A bus carrying day laborers was struck by a cargo train in northwestern Mexico on Tuesday, injuring nearly three dozen people, officials said, and there were media reports of multiple...
January 7, 2020
A U.N. humanitarian agency said Tuesday that tribal clashes between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan's West Darfur province have displaced about 40,000 people, with thousands crossing to neighboring Chad. The...
January 7, 2020
Poor Puerto Rico can't catch a break from Mother Nature — or land quick help from the U.S. government. It's not like Tuesday's predawn 6.4 magnitude earthquake wasn't a disaster...
January 7, 2020
Donald Trump's personal lawyer went rogue when he attempted back-channel diplomacy with embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, according to Elliott Abrams, the senior State Department official in charge of Venezuela...
January 7, 2020
The Panama Canal's watershed experienced its fifth driest year of the last seven decades in 2019, officials said this week, underscoring warnings that climate change poses a major challenge to...
January 7, 2020
As the United States moved aggressively over the past year to sharply reduce the number of asylum seekers arriving at its southwest border, Mexicans were spared. But now Mexico is...
January 7, 2020
The death toll from a measles epidemic in Congo has surpassed 6,000, the World Health Organization said Tuesday as it warned that more funds are needed to save lives during...
January 7, 2020
Iraq's outgoing prime minister said Tuesday that the United States has no alternative and must pull its troops out of the country, or else face an impending crisis. Adel Abdul-Mahdi,...
