Tag Archives: International

Cream of Wheat and Mrs. Butterworth are the latest brands reckoning with racially charged logos. The soul-searching comes in the wake of PepsiCo's announcement Wednesday that it's renaming its Aunt Je...

FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank has handed out 1.31 trillion euros ($1.46 trillion) in long-term, ultra-cheap credit to hundreds of banks as part of its emergency support aimed at cushioning the...

JACKSON, Miss. - A Confederate monument that's been a divisive symbol at the University of Mississippi will be moved from a prominent spot on the Oxford campus to a secluded Civil War cemetery. The st...

NEW YORK - A picture book edition of Ibram X. Kendi's "Antiracist Baby," one of the country's top-selling books since the death last month of George Floyd, is coming out July 14. "Antiracist Baby" wen...

SIESTA KEY, Fla. - One of the stars of MTV's Florida-based reality show "Siesta Key" has been fired. MTV posted the decision to remove Alex Kompothecras, 25, on the show's official Twitter account Tue...

Jean Kennedy Smith, who was the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and who as a U.S. ambassador played a key role in the peace process in Northern Ireland, has died, relatives said Th...

BERLIN - German prosecutors on Thursday filed murder charges against a Russian man accused in the brazen daylight slaying in Berlin last year of a Georgian man, and said that the Russian state ordered...

LONDON - Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular "Forces' Sweetheart" who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103. During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, ...

BEIJING - China's top legislative body has taken up a draft national security law for Hong Kong that has been strongly criticized as undermining the semi-autonomous territory's legal and political ins...

MANCHESTER, England - Players kneeled in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and victims of the coronavirus were remembered as the Premier League made a sombre return on Wednesday from a 100-da...