The 318-kilogram sea lion blinked in the sun, sniffed the sea air and then lazily shifted to the edge of the truck bed and plopped onto the beach below. Freed from the cage that carried him to the ocean, the massive marine mammal shuffled into the surf, looked left, looked right and then began...
Slovak President Andrej Kiska appointed Peter Pellegrini as prime minister on Thursday to end a political crisis touched off by the murder of an investigative journalist that led to mass protests and the resignation of veteran leader Robert Fico. In Slovakia's biggest protests in three...
The tempest over U.S. President Donald Trump’s congratulatory phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin quickly grew Wednesday into an uproar over White House leaks, sparking an internal investigation and speculation over who might be the next person Trump forces out of the West Wing. The...
Zimbabwe's new president Emmerson Mnangagwa has pardoned up to 3,000 prisoners, including most female inmates, in his first act of clemency, a government notice showed on Wednesday. The last time that prisoners were released en masse was in May 2016 by former president Robert Mugabe...
China is now a major producer of innovative technologies, nosing ahead of Japan to become the second biggest source of international patent applications, the United Nations said on Wednesday. China's fast growth in intellectual property has led to accusations by U.S. President...
Lawmakers have included nearly $400 million in a massive federal government spending bill to help safeguard U.S. voting systems from cyber-attacks, three sources familiar with negotiations said Wednesday. The spending package, expected to be publicly unveiled on Wednesday, includes $380...
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party was approached by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, but did not take the proposal forward, a spokesman for May said Wednesday. "An approach was made and the party decided not to take that forward," May's political spokesman said. He...
A suicide blast in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday killed at least 26 people, officials and local media reported. Nusrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, confirmed a suicide bomber targeted a Nevruz [Spring Festival] gathering in the capital’s Karta-e-Sakhi...
A U.S. counterterrorism official says dogs sniffing for explosives will be deployed soon to inspect laptops and mobile phones of passengers flying to the United States from Jordan, Egypt and Morocco. The additional checks will be handled in Jordan by a U.S.-trained K-9 unit - part of...
Russia's foreign minister threatened Wednesday to retaliate against Britain for "anti-Russian measures", with the two countries at loggerheads over the poisoning of a spy in southern England. Speaking after a meeting with Japanese counterpart Taro Kono, Sergey Lavrov said: "If the...
Some of the 110 schoolgirls abducted from the Nigerian town of Dapchi last month were brought back on Wednesday, two witnesses said. The witnesses said the girls were returned by people they thought were Islamist militant insurgents from the Boko Haram group. Thy did not say how many...
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was placed in custody Tuesday as part of an investigation into allegations he received millions of euros in illegal campaign financing from the regime of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. A judicial source with direct knowledge of the case told the...
Producers of the Netflix drama "The Crown" apologized Tuesday to actors Claire Foy and Matt Smith over the revelation that Foy was paid less than her male co-star. A producer disclosed last week that Foy, who starred as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, was paid less than Smith, who played...
Government efforts to protect state and local elections from Russian cyberattacks in 2016 didn't go far enough, leaders of the Senate intelligence committee said Tuesday as the panel released recommendations to safeguard against foreign meddling in the 2018 primary season that's already...
The Federal Reserve began its two-day policy meeting Tuesday which is expected to produce the first of at least three increases in the key interest rate this year. With economic forces gathering that are likely to fuel inflation in 2018, the central bank could raise the benchmark...
The pop culture sensation "Black Panther" has set another record: most tweeted about movie ever. Twitter said Tuesday that Ryan Coogler's box-office smash has been tweeted about more than 35 million times. That pushes it ahead of the previous record-holder, "Star Wars: The Force...
Russia's top court has ruled that the Telegram messaging app can be forced to provide user data to security services. The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an appeal by Telegram protesting demands from the Federal Security Service intelligence agency, or FSB to provide access to user...
Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, has died in Kenya at the age of 45, after becoming a symbol of efforts to save his subspecies from extinction, a fate that only science can now prevent. When Sudan was born in 1973 in the wild in Shambe, South Sudan, there were about 700 of his...
Russia has no desire for a new arms race and will do everything it can to resolve differences with other countries, while defending its national interests, President Vladimir Putin said Monday. Putin, at a meeting with the opponents he defeated in Sunday's presidential election, said...
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said Monday there was no real choice in Russia's presidential election the previous day and complained it had been marked by pressure on critical voices. "Choice without real competition, as we have seen here, is not real choice,"...
