Tag Archives: International

NEW YORK - Playwright Michael R. Jackson, author-critic Vivian Gornick and fiction and nonfiction writer Renee Gladman are among this year's winners of Windham-Campbell Prizes, which provide $165,000 ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli parliamentary elections on Tuesday resulted in a virtual deadlock for a fourth time in the past two years, exit polls indicated, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an u...

Boston has a new mayor in Kim Janey, who became the city's first female and first person of colour to take the office Monday. Marty Walsh resigned Monday evening to become President Joe Biden's labour...

O'FALLON, Mo. - Eric Greitens, the former Navy SEAL officer who rose quickly to become Missouri governor before scandal forced him out of office just a year and a half into his tenure, announced Monda...

CAMPOHERMOSO, Colombia - When customers enter his hardware store Nelson Avila asks them to wear a mask and wash their hands. He sprays alcohol over the bills and coins they give him before putting the...

BOULDER, Colo. - A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed 10 people Monday, including a police officer who was the first to respond to the scene, authorities said. Police arrested a suspect, but di...

NIAMEY, Niger - Gunmen aboard motorcycles have attacked a series of villages near Niger's troubled border with Mali, leaving at least 137 people dead in the deadliest violence to strike the African co...

PARIS - More than 150 female sports journalists in France denounced sexism, harassment and discrimination they said they routinely face from colleagues and people commenting on social media. "It's tim...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas lawmakers on Monday approved banning transgender girls and women from competing on school sports teams consistent with their gender identity, the latest state to advance t...

LOS ANGELES - Elgin Baylor soared through the 1960s with a high-scoring, high-flying artistry that that became the model for the modern basketball player. The Lakers' 11-time All-Star and Hall of Fame...