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Published:Sunday | June 26, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP) -- Scotland's Parliament could attempt to block Britain from leaving the European Union, the Scottish leader said Sunday as the turmoil following the historic referendum spread and the leader of the opposition Labour Party faced an...

Published:Sunday | June 26, 2016 | 12:00 AM

MAYBOLE, Scotland (AP) -- At the heart of the campaign that led Britain to vote to leave the European Union was a desire to regain independence lost amid a global zed world. It's the same kind of feeling that Donald Trump rode to become the...

Published:Saturday | June 25, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): Britain and the European Union haven't even begun divorce talks yet but were already bickering today as the political and economic shockwaves from the British vote to leave the bloc reverberated around the world. Senior EU...

Published:Friday | June 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

HONG KONG (AP): The pound slumped to its lowest in more than three decades on Friday as results on Britain's referendum on European Union membership showed that the "leave" side had won. Uncertainty over the vote results had sent the...

Published:Friday | June 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): The Bank of England says it's ready to take "all necessary steps" to help keep Britain stable after voters chose to leave the 28-nation European Union. The results of the vote Thursday have shaken global markets and...

Published:Friday | June 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): Britons have voted to leave the European Union, their concerns about immigration and what some saw as the ever-increasing power of the 28-member bloc trumping the attraction of being part of a single market of more than 500 million...

Published:Friday | June 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP): World financial markets were rocked Friday by Britain's vote to leave the European Union, with stock markets and oil prices crashing and the pound hitting its lowest level in three decades. The uncharted, unexpected...

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 10:50 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The Organization of American States is meeting to discuss what the secretary general calls serious abuses of democracy in Venezuela as international pressure mounts on the socialist country amid a deepening political and economic...

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BALTIMORE (AP):A judge found a Baltimore Police van driver not guilty of all charges in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, whose broken neck in police custody set off Baltimore's worst riots in decades.Six officers were charged in Gray's death,...

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 11:52 AM

BEIJING (AP):A powerful tornado and hailstorm struck the outskirts of an eastern Chinese city yesterday, killing at least 78 people and destroying buildings, smashing trees and flipping vehicles on their roofs.The tornado hit a densely populated...

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The Supreme Court deadlocked yesterday on President Barack Obama's immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the United States (US) illegally from deportation and granted them work permits, effectively killing the...

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Dozens of Conservative lawmakers who called for Britain to leave the European Union have signed a letter saying Prime Minister David Cameron should stay in office whichever side wins the membership referendum. The letter signed by 84 legislators...

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama's immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the US illegally from deportation. The justices' one-sentence opinion on Thursday effectively...

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP): German media report that officials say a suspect in an incident at a movie theater in the southwest of the country is dead. The dpa news agency reported that Interior Minister Peter Beuth said in the Hesse state legislature in...

Published:Thursday | June 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union EU should respond in a calm and inclusive way to whatever result emerges from the British referendum on EU membership. Merkel said after meeting her Austrian counterpart in Berlin today that...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 1:45 PM

LONDON (AP):Campaigners on both sides of the crucial vote over whether Britain should remain in the European Union criss-crossed the country yesterday, their last day to win support from the undecided.Prime Minister David Cameron outlined his vision...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Rebellious Democrats disrupted the House's legislative work yesterday, staging a sit-in on the House floor and refusing to leave until they secured a vote on gun-control measures. Exasperated...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 3:08 PM

Lightning kills at least 85 personsPATNA (AP):Lightning has killed 74 persons, mostly farm labourers working in fields, acrosseastern and northern India over the past 24 hours, officials said yesterday.A majority of the deaths occurred in the...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP):A senior United States diplomat was holding talks with Venezuela's hostile government and its opposition on Wednesday, apparently hoping to prevent a humanitarian disaster and ease a political...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

GEORGE TOWN (AP):A rising population of green iguanas on Grand Cayman has become so alarming that the government has launched a pilot programme to figure out how best to fight the reptiles that began as escapees from...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 3:39 PM

Polish visitor slain,four detainedSANTO DOMINGO (AP):Police in the Dominican Republic said yesterday that they have detained four people in the stabbing death of a 37-year-old man from Poland.Authorities said an Italian man is among those detained...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 12:40 PM

Former house speakerbegins 15-month prison termCHICAGO (AP):Former United States House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrived at a Minnesota prison yesterday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that the Illinois...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 12:56 PM

US, Japan wants urgent UN meeting on missile launchUS, Japan wants urgent UN meeting on missile launchUNITED NATIONS (AP):The United States and Japan yesterday requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council on North Korea's...

Published:Wednesday | June 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): House Democrats staged a sit-down protest today, seeking a vote on gun control measures following the Orlando nightclub shooting. A group of about 30 Democrats led by Georgia Republican John Lewis demanded a vote on measures to...

Published:Tuesday | June 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP):The International Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced Congolese former vice-president, Jean-Pierre Bemba, to 18 years in prison for murders, rapes and acts of pillaging, committed by his troops...

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