OAKLAND, Calif.: Teachers in Oakland, California, went on strike Thursday, part of an ongoing national wave of discontent by educators over classroom conditions,...
OAKLAND, Calif.: Teachers in Oakland, California, went on strike Thursday, part of an ongoing national wave of discontent by educators over classroom conditions,...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis promised that concrete action against child sexual abuse by priests would result from a conference he opened on Thursday,...
HELSINKI: Balloting has started for next month's general election in Estonia, an online voting pioneer, amid tight protective measures a day after Microsoft...
Las Vegas: Las Vegas is getting a rare taste of winter weather, with significant snowfall across the metro area for the first time...
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday banned two groups believed to be fronts for the group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, amid heightened...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, will be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Virginia on March 8, according to...
Vienna: It's hard to imagine a country up in arms over a new public holiday -- but that was the near-universal reaction Wednesday...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan: Tajikistan's authoritarian leader has called for an end to pop songs praising him, state television said Thursday, as the leadership cult...
LEFKOSA, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus: Turkish Cypriot presidential spokesman on Thursday accused the southern Greek Cypriot side of not contributing to the...
MOSCOW: Kazakhstan's president fired the government Thursday over what he called its failure to raise living standards and diversify away from oil and...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the head of the European Union's executive branch has her full support in the face...
Aleppo, Syria: In the Syrian city of Aleppo, Izzat al-Dahan climbed up to his sixth-floor apartment in a crumbling building, and pushed open...
Tokyo: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Thursday but no tsunami warning was issued, US and Japanese authorities said....
ANKARA: Russia has doubts over the U.S. intention to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela scheduled on Saturday. "If the organizers really want to...
Dublin: Dublin Airport said on Thursday that flights had resumed after a drone sighting caused a 15-minute suspension in flights at the airfield...
Near Baghouz, Syria: US-backed Syrian forces tried to negotiate the release of civilians still trapped Thursday in the Islamic State group's last redoubt,...
ALGIERS: A military plane crashed Thursday in Algeria’s Tiaret province southwest of capital Algiers, killing the entire crew, according to local media reports....
DHAKA, Bangladesh: A devastating fire raced through densely packed buildings in a centuries-old shopping district in Bangladesh's capital, killing at least 81 people,...
