Tag Archives: International

TEHRAN, Iran - The sailors from a South Korean tanker seized in the Persian Gulf by Iranian troops last month are free to leave the country on humanitarian grounds, Iran's state TV said Tuesday. Forei...

BEIJING - China says it has lodged a formal complaint with Canada over T-shirts ordered by one of the country's Beijing Embassy staff that allegedly mocked China's response to the coronavirus outbreak...

FRANKFURT - The European economy shrank 0.7% in the last three months of 2020 as businesses were hit by a new round of lockdowns aimed at containing a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic. The drop ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Tennessee is offering virtual "field trips" and an online concert in honour of Black History Month. The Memphis-based museum said Monday the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called go...

Rebecca Hall came across Nella Larsen's novel "Passing" at a time when she was grappling with her own family history. She'd become aware that her maternal grandfather was "white passing," and it might...

NEW YORK - Stanley Tucci's pandemic experiences have run the gamut. He has home-schooled little kids with his wife, Felicity Blunt. He has shared cocktail recipes. He has had the virus. He has worked ...

"Saved by the Bell" star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with cancer, according to his representative. He was 44. "Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. ...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Monday threatened new sanctions on Myanmar after its military staged a coup and arrested the civilian leaders of its government, including Nobel laureate Aung San S...

NEW YORK - Terri Lyne Carrington is just 11 years old and hanging backstage at a concert hall with her friend "Ella" - that's Ella Fitzgerald to us mere mortals - and the jazz legend wants to introduc...