Tag Archives: International

LONDON - Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who was the body, though not the voice, of arch-villain Darth Vader in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, has died. He was 85. Prowse died Sa...

BRUSSELS - With nothing on their agendas for months to come, music festival organizers in Belgium want to use their know-how to help the country's coronavirus vaccination campaign. The Belgian governm...

NEW YORK - The co-author of the million-selling "Game Change" has a book of his own coming about the 2020 election. Simon & Schuster announced Monday that John Heilemann is working on a "dramatic,...

Moderna Inc. said it would ask U.S. and European regulators Monday to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine as new study results confirm the shots offer strong protection - ramping up the race t...

NEW YORK - If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be? Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced "pandemic" as its 2020 word of the year. "That proba...

The value that Wall Street places on access to billions of bytes of data, rather than old-school stock picking, became abundantly clear Monday as two of the biggest providers of such information becom...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The fugitive leader of Ethiopia's defiant Tigray region on Monday called on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to "stop the madness" and withdraw troops from the region as he asserted that fig...

BEIJING - Asian stocks rose Tuesday after Chinese manufacturing improved, with investors looking ahead to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's appearance before legislators. Benchmarks in Sha...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Australia's prime minister said Monday that a Chinese official's tweet showing a fake image of an Australian soldier appearing to slit a child's throat was "truly repugnant" ...

ROME - Cardinal George Pell, who was convicted and then acquitted of sexual abuse in his native Australia, reflects on the nature of suffering, Pope Francis' papacy and the humiliations of solitary co...