Tag Archives: international

CAMEROON, Cameroon - Russia scored a victory for its close ally Syria on Friday, using its veto threat to force the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution significantly reducing the delivery of c...

TOMERONG, Australia - The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a f...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is expected to plead guilty to charges of child sex trafficking and possessing child pornography. A criminal informati...

TOLEDO, Ohio - President Donald Trump used his first campaign election rally of 2020 to argue that he served up "American justice" by ordering a drone strike to take out Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani,...

WASHINGTON - It is "highly likely" that Iran shot down the civilian Ukrainian jetliner that crashed near Tehran late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board, U.S., Canadian and British officials decl...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A year ago, Taiwan's leader was on the ropes. Then she got a boost from an unexpected corner: Chinese President Xi Jinping. Polls indicate that President Tsai Ing-wen is poised to win...

NIAMEY, Niger - Islamic militants carried out another large assault on Niger's military Thursday, leaving at least 25 soldiers dead along with dozens of jihadists only a month after the worst attack o...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A movement is growing in North Carolina to prevent the act of so-called "opossum dropping." The practice involves suspending an opossum in a transparent box on New Year's Eve and slowl...

LONDON - Britain passed a long-elusive milestone on the road to Brexit on Thursday when the House of Commons approved a bill authorizing the country's departure from the European Union at the end of t...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Taco Bell wasn't open on Christmas Day but a burglar in Georgia decided he wanted a festive feast anyway - and to take a nap while he was at it. Police have asked for the public's...