Author Archives: CJME News

BERLIN - Germany's foreign minister was flying to Libya on Thursday to meet one of the country's rival leaders, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, in a bid to push forward troubled efforts to secure a cease-fire. G...

JERUSALEM - Religious-nationalist parties in Israel joined forces late Wednesday ahead of the country's unprecedented third straight election in one year. The parties came together after weeks of jock...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United States said its participation at this year's World's Fair in Dubai is being made possible by "the generosity of the Emirati government." The U.S. State Departm...

TOKYO - One of the Japanese lawyers for former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has stepped down from that job after his client fled the country. Junichiro Hironaka had been representing Ghosn in his defe...

The extreme cold warnings that were in effect for much of Saskatchewan on Thursday have been lifted. The only areas still under the Environment Canada warnings were around Lloydminster, The Battleford...

OTTAWA - A national organization representing Inuit women in Canada is calling for a radical shift in the way police work is done in the North. The demand comes after a new report relea...

CANBERRA, Australia - 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. Firefigh...

TEL AVIV, Israel - 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 o...

LEMERY, Philippines - A Philippine volcano that erupted last weekend belched smaller plumes of ash and shuddered continuously with earthquakes Thursday, prompting authorities to block access to nearby...

TOMALI, Malawi - 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 deadliest and most stubbo...