The presidents of Italy’s wealthy northern regions of Veneto and Lombardy yesterday claimed victory in autonomy referendums that seek to grab additional powers and tax
At least 54 policemen, including 20 officers and 34 conscripts, were killed when a raid on a militant hideout southwest of Cairo was ambushed, officials said Saturday.
President Donald Trump says he doesn’t plan to block the scheduled release of thousands of never publicly seen government documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
The centrist ANO movement led by populist Andrej Babis decisively won the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election Saturday in a vote that shifted the country to the right
The Conservative leader, Winston Churchill, has wound up his election campaign with a hard-hitting speech in which he vigorously denied accusations of warmongering. The former prime minister, who is
EGYPT’s president vowed yesterday to press ahead with the country’s war against terrorism, secure its borders and hunt down militants. The remarks came after authorities officially announced
Spain’s government yesterday immediately rejected a threat by Catalonia’s leader to declare independence unless talks are held, calling a special Cabinet session for the weekend to activate
A young Barack Obama questioned his place in the world and his racial identity, agonized over whether he’d make enough money as a community organizer, and lamented
Some flowers have found a nifty way to get the blues. They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday.
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama, has arrived in Britain for the start of a 10-day tour during which he will “administer vows to people
SPAIN’s government yesterday set in motion plans to take away Catalonia’s local powers after its defiant regional president refused to give up his demands for Catalan independence.
An international team investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine appealed yesterday for information about a photograph which prosecutors believe features the Buk rocket that
The gunman who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history first wounded an unsuspecting hotel security guard in a hallway who promptly radioed for help,
Over the summer, the Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM) organized the “Overseas Study Program”, sending students to Melbourne, Australia, where they attended a three- week intensive course
When South Sudan’s Yei region turned violent in the midst of the country’s civil war last year, a handful of U.N. and U.S. officials begged their leaders
A New Jersey newspaper has scored an easy scoop. A Corvette crashed into the newsroom of the Press of Atlantic City newspaper in Pleasantville. The
The world’s stock market has collapsed after shares on Wall Street suffered a wave of panic selling. The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted by a record
Christie’s says, for the first time in 130 years, it will auction a legendary 19-carat pink diamond that once belonged to French rulers including King Louis XIV and
US Just hours before President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban was to take full effect, a federal judge in Hawaii blocked the revised order, saying the policy has
The Portuguese government minister in charge of emergency services resigned yesterday after 106 people were killed in wildfires this year. Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa
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