WASHINGTON (AP): Calling out Donald Trump on climate change, race, his treatment of women and more, protesters pitching diverse causes but united against the incoming president demonstrated in the early hours of Inauguration Day, intent on making...
DAKAR (AP):A West African regional force charged into neighbouring Gambia late Thursday to support the country's newly inaugurated president, while longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh showed no sign of...
HOUSTON (AP):Former President George H.W. Bush may be hospitalised and in intensive care, but the 41st president's twitter account is active, offering "hearty congrats" to former Houston...
PENNE (AP):Rescue workers reported no signs of life Thursday at a four-star hotel buried by an avalanche in the mountains of earthquake-stricken central Italy. Two bodies were recovered of the estimated 30 people trapped inside as the risk of more...
CAIRO (AP):Donald Trump's all-but-dismissal of human rights as a foreign policy principle could hit like an earthquake across a Middle East landscape beset by warring factions and beleaguered governments, with...
WASHINGTON (AP) — They line up near the Oval Office, down the hallway toward the Cabinet Room, trailed by their spouses and young kids in their finest clothes. When it's their turn, the White House staffers enter for a few private moments...
WASHINGTON (AP):For Barack Obama, there's a presidential library to build, hundreds of millions of dollars to raise, causes to champion, and a book to write. And don't forget that long-promised vacation with his wife.Looming retirement is looking...
BERLIN (AP):The German government is aiming to hold this year's general election on September 24.A German official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the Cabinet will decide Wednesday to...
WASHINGTON (AP):The Obama administration tried to persuade the Supreme Court yesterday to retain a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes.If the justices...
DAVOS (AP):With the US increasingly looking inward and China eager to take a lead on the global stage, Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday cast his country as a champion of free trade and stability, a rebuke...
MOSCOW (AP):President Vladimir Putin took a parting shot at the Obama administration yesterday, accusing it of trying to undermine Donald Trump's legitimacy with fake allegations and "binding the president-elect hand and foot to prevent him from...
SYDNEY (AP): The nearly three-year search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended Tuesday, possibly forever – not because investigators have run out of leads, but because the countries involved in the expensive and vast deep-sea hunt have...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP):Canada's ethics commissioner said Monday she is launching an investigation into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's recent family holiday at the Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas....
NEW YORK (AP):His inauguration days away, President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to lash out at critics in the intelligence community and Democrats in Congress who are vowing to skip his swearing-in ceremony.The tough-talking Republican...
DUBLIN (AP):Britain's Cabinet minister for Northern Ireland says the territory's unravelling unity government must be dissolved and an early election will be held on March 2.Secretary of State James...
WASHINGTON (AP):Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to clog the nation's capital for Donald Trump's inauguration and a major demonstration the day after. How many will actually arrive to...
CAIRO (AP):Egyptian prosecutors have thrown out a case brought by an elderly Christian woman against several members of a Muslim mob who stripped off her clothes and paraded her naked through...
WARREN, Michigan (AP):Thousands of people showed up in freezing temperatures yesterday in Michigan to hear Senator Bernie Sanders denounce Republican efforts to repeal President Barack...
BERLIN (AP):Facebook says it's introducing measures to tackle the spread of fake news in Germany, months before the country holds a national election.The social network said yesterday the investigative...
PARIS (AP):Sending a forceful message to Israel's prime minister and the incoming Donald Trump administration, dozens of countries called yesterday on Israel and the Palestinians to revive work toward long-elusive peace - including an independent...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Twenty-seven inmates have died in eruptions of violence in two northern Brazilian prisons, officials said yesterday as they quelled the latest in a string of prison disturbances...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Exulted by Donald Trump's victory in the U.S., the Kremlin is counting the days to his inauguration and venting its anger at Barack Obama's outgoing administration, no holds barred. Careful not to hurt chances for a thaw in U...
PARIS (AP) -- Sending a forceful message to Israel and the incoming Trump administration, more than 70 world diplomats gathered in Paris on Sunday to say they want peace in the Mideast - and that establishing a Palestinian state is the only way to...
SKIEN, Norway (AP):Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik told a panel of judges yesterday that his solitary confinement in prison had deeply damaged him and made him even more...
