VATICAN CITY— Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst...
BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territory— President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital looms large in Christmas festivities this year in the traditional birthplace of Jesus. Some...
DETROIT— Lindsey Hamama has one gift on her Christmas list: to have her father home. A federal judge in Detroit is mulling whether to release her...
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese police have officially started investigating a former chief executive of state-owned energy giant PetroVietnam amid a widened crackdown on corruption. The Ministry...
TOKYO— A conservation group says Japan’s lax controls over its domestic stock of ivory are encouraging illegal exports to other countries and undermining efforts to end...
BANGKOK— Myanmar’s military said a forensic investigation has begun after the discovery of 10 bodies in a mass grave in a village in troubled Rakhine state,...
BALI, Indonesia— An American man who was recaptured after escaping from an overcrowded prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali says he fled because of...
MOSUL, Iraq— The price Mosul’s residents paid in blood to see their city freed was between 9,000 and 11,000 dead, a civilian casualty rate nearly 10...
WASHINGTON— Ambassador Nikki Haley is serving notice the U.S. “will be taking names” on a U.N. General Assembly vote Thursday on a nonbinding resolution criticizing President...
XALAPA, Mexico— Attackers burst into an elementary school where a Christmas party was taking place and shot reporter Gumaro Perez to death Tuesday, making him at...