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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...

Gifts galore for Princess Charlotte's first birthday

Published:Monday | May 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMGifts galore for Princess Charlotte's first birthday

LONDON (AP):She may be too young to appreciate it, but Britain's Princess Charlotte has received an extraordinary array of birthday gifts.Kensington Palace officials said she received letters and gifts from 64 countries on her first birthday...

Since 2013, more than 5,000 migrant children placed in NJ

Published:Monday | May 2, 2016 | 10:15 AM

NEW JERSEY (AP):The federal government has placed more than 5,000 migrant children from Central America with adult sponsors in New Jersey since the fall of 2013, where they are expected to attend school while they seek legal status in immigration...

New Mexico launching new anti-child abuse campaign, website

Published:Monday | May 2, 2016 | 10:52 AM

NEW MEXICO (AP):A state agency tasked with protecting New Mexico's children launched a campaign yesterday with a new website and meetings around the state aimed at getting more parents involved in fighting child abuse.Featuring slick commercials...

South Korean president visits Iran to boost ties

Published:Sunday | May 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

TEHRAN, Iran (AP):South Korea's president arrived in Tehran yesterday for the first summit between the two countries since they established diplomatic ties in 1962.President Park Geun-hye's office said, ahead of the three-day visit, that she would...

Malia Obama to take year off before starting Harvard

Published:Sunday | May 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama's elder daughter, 17- year-old Malia, will take a year off after graduating high school in June before attending Harvard University in 2017, the president and his wife said yesterday in a long-awaited...

Pope calls for severe punishment for child molesters

Published:Sunday | May 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

VATICAN, ROME (AP):Pope Francis called for "severe punishment" for paedophiles yesterday after new details emerged in Italy of the 2014 death of a six-year-old girl who is alleged to have been thrown from an eighth-storey balcony by her abuser."This...

Bombings kill 31 as Iraq grapples with political crisis

Published:Sunday | May 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two car bombs in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Sunday killed 31 people and wounded dozens, the latest in a series of large attacks claimed by the Islamic State group as the country grapples with a worsening political crisis...

Iraqi protesters pour into Green Zone, storm parliament

Published:Saturday | April 30, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BAGHDAD (AP):Anti-government protesters tore down walls and poured into the Iraqi capital's heavily fortified Green Zone yesterday, where they stormed parliament in a major escalation of a political crisis that has simmered for months.Supporters of...

Kenya burns huge pile of ivory tusks to protest poaching

Published:Saturday | April 30, 2016 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP):Kenya's president yesterday set fire to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than one ton of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile ever destroyed, in a dramatic statement by this East African country against the trade...

33 rescued lions arrive in South Africa in airlift

Published:Saturday | April 30, 2016 | 12:00 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP):The roars of lions filled the cargo section of Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport yesterday evening as 33 lions rescued from South American circuses landed in South Africa where they will be released into a bush...

Airstrikes, shelling kill at least 60 in Syria's Aleppo city

Published:Thursday | April 28, 2016 | 12:00 AM

 BEIRUT (AP):A wave of airstrikes and shelling killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, monitors and activists said yesterday. The contested city is now one of the main battlegrounds of Syria's devastating civil war...

Australian leader defends gun controls on tragic anniversary

Published:Thursday | April 28, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CANBERRA (AP):Australia's prime minister said yesterday that a review of national gun laws would not weaken strict regulations that had kept Australians safer since 35 people were shot dead by a mass murderer 20 years ago.Malcolm Turnbull was in the...

Strikes, protests in France against disputed labour reforms

Published:Thursday | April 28, 2016 | 11:07 AM

MARSEILLE (AP):French protesters were back on the streets yesterday, over proposed reforms to the country's labour rules, resulting in cancellations and delays at two airports serving Paris.French television showed clashes in Marseille and elsewhere...

British Court rejects bid from expats for voting rights

Published:Thursday | April 28, 2016 | 11:11 AM

LONDON (AP):A British court has ruled that Britons who have lived abroad for more than 15 years do not have the right to vote in the June 23 referendum on Britain's continued membership in the European Union.The legal challenge had been brought by...

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