Tag Archives: International

TOKYO - Japan announced Friday that it will raise the coronavirus alert level in Tokyo to allow tougher measures to curb the rapid spread of a more contagious variant ahead of the Summer Olympics. Jap...

MOSCOW - A trio of Russian and American space travellers launched successfully and reached the International Space Station on Friday. NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitski...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A South Korean oil tanker held for months by Iran amid a dispute over billions of dollars seized by Seoul was freed and sailed away early Friday, just hours ahead of furt...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden put on a modest White House ceremony Thursday to announce a half-dozen executive actions to combat what he called an "epidemic and an international embarrassment" of g...

A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives, saying CEO Mark Zuckerberg made "false and deceptive" statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and ot...

ROCK HILL, S.C. - Former NFL player Phillip Adams fatally shot five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before killing himself early Thursday. York County Sherif...

ROCK HILL, S.C. - Former NFL player Phillip Adams fatally shot five people, including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before killing himself early Thursday. York County Sherif...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey on Thursday strongly rejected accusations that it snubbed Ursula von der Leyen - one of the European Union's most powerful executives - because of her gender after a protocol g...

DURHAM, N.C. - A man who served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit has received compensation from the state of North Carolina. Ronnie Long told The Charlotte Observer that ...

BELFAST, Ireland - Authorities in Northern Ireland sought to restore calm Thursday after Protestant and Catholic youths in Belfast hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other....