160 nations set to sign on Friday
UNITED NATIONS — About 160 countries are expected to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday in a symbolic triumph for a landm...
She succeeded her father at 26
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s oldest and longest-serving monarch, is celebrating her 90th birthday today with a day at home and a ...
In Ecuador, teams search for survivors
MANTA, Ecuador — Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake as the death t...
Pope thanks Greece for taking migrants
MORIA, Greece — Pope Francis made an emotional visit to Greece on Saturday to thank its people for welcoming migrants and meet...
He is most senior official to ever visit site
HIROSHIMA, Japan — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the revered memorial to Hiroshima’s atomic bombing, delivering...
NEW DELHI — The world’s count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more than a century, with some 3,890 counted by con...
Islamic State battles discussed
BAGHDAD — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced stop in Baghdad today to meet Iraq’s prime minister and other top officia...
TOKYO — Next week, Secretary of State John Kerry will become the highest-ranking American government official to visit Hiroshima, where 140,000 Japanese died from the fi...
He used shell company to shelter money
LONDON — Iceland’s prime minister became the first major figure brought down by the leak of millions of records on offshore account...
But more countries drop death penalty
NEW YORK — Amnesty International reports that there was a dramatic 54 percent increase in executions globally in 2015, with Iran, Pa...
