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China has warned that it’s “seriously concerned” after President-elect Donald Trump questioned whether the United States should keep its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of “one China.” Trump has signaled a willingness to confront Beijing, and his latest comments in an interview with Fox News suggested that he won’t hesitate to anger China until […]

Venezuelans have been given just three days to swap their biggest bolivar notes for coins. The South American nation will withdraw all 100 bolivar notes and replace them with coins of the same face value within 72 hours, state-run news agency AVN said Sunday. President Nicolas Maduro said the emergency decree was aimed at “mafias” […]

A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for twin bombings in Istanbul that killed at least 44 people, mostly police officers, and wounded 155 others. The Kurdish Freedom Hawks (TAK), a breakaway group of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), said in a statement on its website that the Turkish people were not the target of […]

Syria’s state-run news agency SANA and the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights (SOHR) monitor group have confirmed that the neighborhood of al-Sheikh Saeed in southeastern Aleppo has been captured by the Syrian military. The neighborhood was taken from rebel forces with the assistance of government-allied groups. Large numbers of civilians are also reportedly fleeing the […]

The airline with the kangaroo on its tail is losing a bounce. Air travelers will be able to fly from Australia to Europe without stopping after Qantas announced the first direct passenger route between the two continents. Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner will make the epic 17-hour journey between London and Perth, a city on Australia’s remote […]

Throughout 2016, terror attacks have ripped apart small towns and big cities in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. This weekend brought no respite. Three deadly blasts in major cities thousands of miles apart targeted sites where people gather for life’s daily rituals. Different groups claimed responsibility for two of the attacks, carrying them out […]

Heavy rain and winds have begun to pound the Indian city of Chennai, with a severe tropical cyclone expected to make landfall Monday. Tropical cyclone Vardah is packing winds of 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) and is the first cyclone on the Bay of Bengal to reach hurricane force in 2016, said […]

The female elephant charges through shrub, ears pinned back, silent. At least that’s how I remember it. I was 7. I’m wedged between a cousin and my father, my grandmother perched behind. We are in the back of an open pickup near the banks of the Olifants River in South Africa. “Drive!” we shout at […]

Daniel P. ‘G.I.’ Witherow, 35, of Grampian died Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 at Penn Highlands DuBois. He was born Nov. 14, 1981 in Clearfield, a son of Jerry and Lillian (Ferris) Witherow of Grampian. He was the assistant chief of the Grampian-Penn-Bloom Volunteer Fire Department. He was employed as a mechanic with Hugill Sanitation and […]

Jeison Aristizábal wasn’t born destined for success. Hailing from one of the poorest areas of Cali, Colombia, and waging a constant battle with cerebral palsy, the world seemed dead set against him. “When I was a young boy, a doctor told my mom that I would amount to nothing,” said Aristizábal, 33. Family support and […]

Bill English has been sworn in as the next Prime Minister of New Zealand. English was elected as the leader of the National Party, replacing former Prime Minister John Key. Key unexpectedly resigned on December 5 after leading his party for 10 years and the country for eight. “I am both excited and humbled by […]

PHILIPSBURG — Curwensville Area High School sophomore Blake Passarelli lost in the finals, while senior Kaleb Witherite and freshman Zach Holland were victorious in three of their four matches to claim third place at the annual season-opening JJ Powell Mountaineer Wrestling Tournament hosted by Philipsburg-Osceola Saturday. A penalty point in overtime was the difference in […]

There is nothing harder than being a mother in eastern Aleppo, said Fatemah Alabed. “You must carry a lot of patience, you must be stronger than anyone in the world,” she said. “You must be both a father and a mother, even you must be kid to play with your children to make them feel […]

A winter storm moving through the Great Lakes region dumped snow in the Midwest and led to the cancellation of more than 1,400 flights Sunday in Chicago. In nearby Detroit, a plane slid off a runway into the grass and snow. Parts of the nation felt the effects of the cold weather on Sunday, as […]

The disagreement between some Republicans and Democrats on Russia’s intentions in hacking the election rests partially on the lack of agreement between intelligence agencies and the FBI about the conclusiveness of the evidence, officials explained this weekend. The US intelligence community is increasingly confident that Russian meddling in the American election was intended to steer […]