Top World News

Finnish media says several people have been stabbed in the southern city of Tempere

An assailant in Finland stabbed several people near a shopping center in the southern city of Tempere on Thursday afternoon, and one person was arrested, Finnish public broadcaster Yle reported.

ArticleImg
Flossie weakens to tropical storm off Mexico's Pacific coast

Flossie has weakened to a tropical storm off Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph

Myanmar military fighter jet disappears as resistance group claims to have downed it

An anti-military resistance organization says that it shot down a Myanmar military fighter jet in a combat zone in the country’s east

ArticleImg
Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq to hand over weapons in first step toward disarmament

A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons, marking the first concrete step toward disarmament as part of a peace process.

Ethiopia says a controversial power dam on the Nile that's opposed by Egypt has been completed

Ethiopia's prime minister said Thursday that his country's controversial power dam on the Nile has been completed.