Category Archives: World

YEREVAN, Armenia - Fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh entered sixth week on Sunday, with Armenian and Azerbaijani forces blaming each other for new attacks. Nagorno-Karabakh of...

LYON, France - French police interrogated one suspect and searched for others Sunday after a Greek Orthodox priest was shot and critically wounded while closing the door to his church in the French ci...

PARIS - The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France's Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts o...

LONDON - A British judge will decide Monday whether a tabloid newspaper defamed Johnny Depp by calling him a "wife beater," a ruling with huge implications for the careers of both Depp and former spou...

LONDON - A British government minister says a new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don't fall quickly enough. The lockdow...

ISTANBUL - A Turkish politician from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party has died from the coronavirus. Burhan Kuzu, 65, had been receiving treatment for COVID-19 since Oct. 17, the country'...

Hong Kong police arrested seven people Sunday over scuffles that broke out with security guards during a faceoff between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers in the city's legislature earlier this ...

KAMPALA, Uganda - Facing financial difficulties aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic, the southern African nation of Zambia appears headed for a default on debt owed to private investors. One of the...

MANILA, Philippines - A super typhoon slammed into the eastern Philippines with ferocious winds early Sunday, knocking down power in several towns and prompting the evacuation of about a million peopl...

ALGIERS, Algeria - Algerians were voting Sunday on whether to approve a revised constitution that imposes term limits, promises new freedoms and aims at answering demands from pro-democracy protesters...