LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party confirmed Sunday that it will hold a major debate on Brexit at its party conference this week, raising hopes among Labour members hoping to stop the country from leaving...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president today accused an unnamed U.S.-allied country in the Persian Gulf of being behind a terror attack on a military parade that killed 25 people and wounded 60, further raising regional tensions. Hassan...
BEIJING (AP) — China summoned the American ambassador and the defence attaché and recalled its navy commander from a U.S. trip to deliver a strong protest against economic sanctions Washington lodged over the purchase of Russian...
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) last Friday officially opened its Country Office in Haiti, the first outside its headquarters in Barbados.To commemorate the occasion, Dr William Warren Smith, president of the CDB, hosted an inauguration event...
BEIJING (AP):China's foreign ministry yesterday summoned the United States ambassador to deliver a strong protest against economic sanctions lodged over the purchase of Russian fighter jets and surface-to-air missile equipment.The ministry's...
MOSCOW (AP):For yet another weekend, thousands rallied across Russia yesterday to protest against the government's plan to raise the eligibility age for retirement pensions by five years.Several thousand people attended a Moscow rally organised by...
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman stabbed five people — including three newborn babies — and then slashed her wrist early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed neighbourhood nursery for new...
FORT WORTH, Texas — It's official: It will cost you more to check a bag on any of the three biggest U.S. airlines. American Airlines said Thursday that it is raising fees for checking bags by $5 apiece each way, matching Delta and United...
DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — Marc van Bloemen has lived in the old town of Dubrovnik, a Croatian citadel widely praised as the jewel of the Adriatic, for decades, since he was a child. He says it used to be a privilege. Now it’s a...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The death toll rose above 100 after a ferry capsized and sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzania state radio reported Friday, while a second day of rescue efforts raced the setting sun. The toll was likely to go up, John...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May challenged the European Union on Friday to break the “impasse” in Brexit negotiations, fighting back after the bloc threw divorce negotiations into doubt by labelling May’s...
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (AP):Hurricane Florence is still wearing out the Carolinas, where residents have endured an agonising week of violent winds, torrential rain, widespread flooding, power outages and death.Frustration and sheer exhaustion...
SALZBURG (AP):Britain and its European Union partners failed yesterday to secure a breakthrough in Brexit talks, largely because of seemingly intractable divisions over the best way to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland and how to deal...
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP):Madison police have arrested a 15-year-old boy suspected of accidentally shooting two teenagers on a city bus near a high school.Police arrested the teen at his home yesterday. Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain said the...
MEXICO CITY (AP):A wandering refrigerated truck carrying corpses from an overflowing morgue in Mexico actually contained 273 bodies, not 157 as originally stated.Officials described late Wednesday how the truck was forced to move around the...
SAN JUAN (AP):The uplifting strains of one of Puerto Rico's most beloved songs filled the air at 6:15 a.m. yesterday as a choir stood in the coastal town where Hurricane Maria made landfall at that moment exactly one year ago.The serenade in Yabucoa...
CAIRO (AP):An Egyptian court yesterday ordered the release from detention of former President Hosni Mubarak's two sons, overturning a ruling by another court whose judge surprisingly told police to arrest them and send them to prison.The judge in...
Published:Thursday | September 20, 2018 | 11:15 AM
DENVER (AP) — U.S. officials cannot deny a passport application from an intersex Colorado resident based solely on a refusal to select male or female for gender, a federal judge said Wednesday. The U.S. State Department’s varied...
Published:Thursday | September 20, 2018 | 10:54 AM
Twice in less than a year, the federal government has lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children after placing them in the homes of sponsors across the country, federal officials have acknowledged. The Health and Human Services Department recently...
NAGA, Philippines (AP) — A massive landslide buried dozens of homes near a central Philippine mountain Thursday, killing at least 21 people and sending rescuers scrambling to find survivors after some sent text messages pleading for help. The...
VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency reinstated Russia on Thursday despite a wave of protests, ending the nearly three-year suspension of the country’s drug-testing program because of a state-sponsored doping scheme...
Published:Thursday | September 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM
PARIS (AP):French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to create a memorial museum to honour the victims of terrorism.Macron, speaking Wednesday at a ceremony organised by victims' associations, said a committee will immediately start working on...
Published:Thursday | September 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM
NEW DELHI (AP):India's government on Wednesday approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce.The government decision came after it failed to get approval from Parliament...
Published:Thursday | September 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM
SALZBURG (AP):The European Union and Britain clashed Wednesday over the biggest obstacle to concluding Brexit talks, with both sides urging the other to compromise just weeks before they must seal a deal.At a summit in Salzburg, Austria, EU Council...
Published:Thursday | September 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM
GENEVA (AP):The latest Ebola outbreak in Congo presents complex challenges as the virus spreads for the first time in an area where long-running conflict is hampering aid efforts, the regional Africa chief for the International Federation of the Red...
