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Powerball winner yet to come forward to claim prize

Published:Monday | May 9, 2016 | 9:09 AM

NEW JERSEY (AP):The winner of the $429.6 million Powerball jackpot has yet to come forward to claim the prize, as the New Jersey store that sold the winning ticket celebrates.Only one ticket matched all six Powerball numbers in Saturday night's...

Leader gets new title, 3 BBC journalists booted

Published:Monday | May 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

PYONGYANG (AP):North Korea's ruling-party congress wrapped up its official agenda yesterday by announcing a new title for Kim Jong Un, party chairman, in a move that highlights how the authoritarian country's first congress in 36 years was aimed at...

Panama Papers list of offshore companies to go live

Published:Monday | May 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

FRANKFURT (AP):The investigative journalists who reported on a trove of data about offshore companies of the rich and powerful are making the names of 200,000 entities available in a searchable database.The International Consortium of Investigative...

Mosquito season brings no urgency for money to fight Zika

Published:Monday | May 9, 2016 | 9:37 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The White House and Democrats are pressuring congressional Republicans to act on President Barack Obama's demands for money to combat Zika, but even the onset of the mosquito season that probably will spread the virus has failed to...

300 economists urge leaders to reject tax havens

Published:Monday | May 9, 2016 | 9:45 AM

LONDON, (AP):Hundreds of economists urged world leaders yesterday to end the era of tax havens, arguing that they only benefit rich individuals and multinational corporations and serve to increase inequality.The 300 economists, in a letter...

UK's Cameron says leaving EU would increase risk of war

Published:Monday | May 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Raising the stakes in Britain's European Union (EU) membership debate, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday that leaving the bloc would increase the risk of war in Europe.Cameron's speech on national security came as campaigning...

Fire-ravaged Alberta to be visited by Premier

Published:Monday | May 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) Alberta's premier is to get a first look at the devastation in Canada's oil sands town of Fort McMurray today after cold temperatures and light rain stabilised the massive wildfire to a point where officials...

Three Spanish reporters freed after 10 months captivity in Syria

Published:Sunday | May 8, 2016 | 12:43 PM

MADRID (AP):Three Spanish freelance journalists held captive in Syria for nearly 10 months returned home yesterday, tearfully hugging relatives as they got off a military jet sent to Turkey to bring them back.Antonio Pampliega, JosÈ Manuel LÛpez,...

Drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzmán moved to Juárez prison

Published:Sunday | May 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):Convicted drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks and is fighting to avoid extradition to the United States, was abruptly transferred to a prison in northern Mexico near the Texas border early on...

Professor suspected of being a terrorist because of a math equation

Published:Sunday | May 8, 2016 | 4:15 PM

PHILADELPHIA (AP):An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign that he was a terrorist.American Airlines confirmed that the woman expressed suspicions about...

Six militants executed, signaling tougher policy

Published:Sunday | May 8, 2016 | 4:40 PM

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP):Afghanistan yesterday hanged six men convicted of terrorism, signalling a tougher approach towards the Taliban.President Ashraf Ghani's office said he "approved executions of six terrorists who perpetrated grave crimes...

London's new Muslim mayor joins Holocaust memorial

Published:Sunday | May 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP) — London's newly elected Muslim mayor paid respect Sunday to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first official act in office. Sadiq Khan made Sunday's appearance at a north London ceremony following a...

Kim Jong Un says NKorea won't use nuclear weapons first

Published:Sunday | May 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use its nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is invaded and announced a five-year economic plan at a milestone congress of North Korea's ruling...

Private sector worried at crime situation in Guyana

Published:Thursday | May 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC):Guyana's private sector has written to President David Granger complaining about the present crime situation and its impact on the country's 50th-anniversary of political independence from Britain.The Private Sector Commission (PSC...

Turkish prime minister announces decision to step down

Published:Thursday | May 5, 2016 | 9:25 AM

ANKARA (AP):Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced his resignation yesterday, paving the way for the country's president to pursue a tighter grip on power."I decided that for the unity of the (ruling party), a change of chairman would be...

Woman rescued after 6 days in collapsed building

Published:Thursday | May 5, 2016 | 10:06 AM

NAIROBI (AP):A Kenyan woman was rescued yesterday after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building.A crowd applauded in celebration as the woman was carried away on a stretcher covered by a blanket and with an oxygen tank by...

Ecuadoreans in US seek immigration help after quake

Published:Thursday | May 5, 2016 | 10:10 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP):Ecuadorean immigrants are asking the Obama administration to allow their fellow citizens in the United States illegally to stay in the country and work while the South American country recovers from a magnitude 7.8 earthquake.A...

Hillicans? As Trump wins, Clinton explores how to woo GOPers

Published:Wednesday | May 4, 2016 | 12:22 PM

OHIO (AP):With Donald Trump's remaining rivals bowing out of the race, clearing his path to the nomination, Hillary Clinton is looking for ways to woo Republicans turned off by the brash billionaire.The Democratic front-runner's campaign believes...

Immigrant family detention center granted child-care license

Published:Wednesday | May 4, 2016 | 9:27 AM

HOUSTON (AP):One of the nation's largest detention centres for families caught crossing the southern US border has received a temporary residential child-care licence, amid discussions over whether the federal government will keep using such...

Prime minister says Australia to have July 2 election

Published:Wednesday | May 4, 2016 | 10:49 AM

CANBERRA (AP):Australia's election campaign will officially start soon with climate change policy and union corruption in the national building industry shaping into key battlegrounds for the July 2 poll.Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said...

Last Trump rival John Kasich quits presidential race

Published:Wednesday | May 4, 2016 | 5:32 PM

Ohio Governor John Kasich has dropped out of the presidential race after struggling to gain traction against Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Kasich did not have a path to secure the nomination outright, but pledged to lobby for his candidacy...

Lawsuit accuses Connecticut rabbi of sexual abuse

Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CONNECTICUT (AP):A Connecticut rabbi is accused in a lawsuit of raping and molesting a teenage boy hundreds of times from 2001 to 2005 when the boy was a student at a Jewish boarding school in New Haven.The lawsuit by Eliyahu Mirlis, now 28, of New...

French parliament debates labour law after violent protests

Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2016 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):After a month of often violent protests, French legislators yesterday started to debate a hotly contested labour bill that would make it easier to lay off workers, weaken some union powers, and relax rules regulating the country's 35-hour...

Cuba sets price controls for fruits, vegetables

Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2016 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):Cuba said it is setting limits on the prices of fruits and vegetables in an attempt to calm public complaints about rising food costs.The government announced yesterday that farm products sold in state-controlled markets would have...

Ted Cruz pulls out of US presidential race

Published:Tuesday | May 3, 2016 | 12:00 AM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Texas Senator Ted Cruz on Tuesday ended his presidential campaign, eliminating the biggest impediment to Donald Trump's march to the Republican nomination. The conservative tea party firebrand who tried to cast himself...

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