TEHRAN (AP): Iran’s new reformist president insisted Monday that Tehran didn’t want to enrich uranium at near-weapons grade levels but had been forced to by the US withdrawal from its nuclear deal with world powers. The comments by President...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Venezuela’s main opposition coalition on Monday called on the US to cancel the licences that allow Chevron and other energy companies to operate in the South American country to pressure President Nicolás Maduro to negotiate a...
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP): A man suspected in an apparent assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump was charged on Monday with federal gun crimes, making his first court appearance in the final weeks of a White House race...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man suspected in an apparent assassination attempt targeting former President Donald Trump was charged Monday with federal gun crimes, making his first court appearance in the final weeks of a White...
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — For three days, the staff of an Orlando medical clinic encouraged a woman with abdominal pain who called the triage line to go to the hospital. She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals...
TOKYO (AP): A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, September 10 beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom....
The inclusion of breaking in the 2024 Olympic Games certainly raised eyebrows. And now, Australian competitor Rachael Gunn (known as ‘Raygun’) is one of the most famous Olympians from any nation – as well as Australia’s most famous dancer. Her...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Being a venture capitalist (VC) carries a lot of prestige in Silicon Valley. Those who choose which start-ups to fund see themselves as fostering the next big waves of technology. So when some of the industry’s biggest names...
DILI (AP): It was the farthest trip of his pontificate and one of the longest papal trips ever in terms of days on the road and distance travelled. But Pope Francis, age 87, hobbled by bad knees and bent over with sciatica, appeared to be having...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was the target Sunday of "what appears to be an attempted assassination" at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the FBI said, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was safe after gunshots were reported in his vicinity Sunday afternoon in Florida, his campaign and the Secret Service said. It was not immediately clear whether the reported shots were targeted at the...
PRAGUE (AP) — The death toll was rising in Central European countries on Sunday after days of heavy rains caused widespread flooding and forced mass evacuations. Several Central European nations have already been hit by severe flooding,...
Coco loved being the life of the party – cracking jokes, doing pranks and making people laugh, her mom, Julianna Arnold, recalled recently. “Her favourite pastime was fashion,” Arnold said. “She didn’t like looking at magazines or going to fancy...
The United States is divided when it comes to state and federal marijuana policy, but recent political developments could move the country toward a greater acceptance of cannabis. Both major presidential candidates have signalled support for a...
Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:26 PM
BUKWO, Uganda (AP) — Thousands of mourners in Uganda paid respects to Rebecca Cheptegei, the Olympic athlete who died last week in Kenya after her partner set her on fire, at a military funeral in a remote town near the Kenyan border....
KINSHASA (AP): A military court in Congo handed down death sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of taking part in a coup attempt. The defendants, who also included a Briton, Belgian, Canadian...
Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:08 AM
NAIROBI (AP): The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei — who died after being set on fire by her partner in Kenya — was received Friday by family and anti-femicide crusaders, ahead of her burial a day later. Cheptegei’s family met...
Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:08 AM
NEW YORK (AP): Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, the powerful longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, pleaded not guilty Friday in New York on a 17-count indictment accusing him of narcotics trafficking and murder. Participating through a Spanish-...
Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:08 AM
VIENNA (AP): A woman in Austria was found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbour with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media. A judge sentenced the 54-year-old on Thursday to four months’...
Published:Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 12:07 AM
HANOI (AP): The death toll in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam climbed to 233 on Friday as rescue workers recovered more bodies from areas hit by landslides and flash floods, state media reported. Floodwaters from the swollen Red River in...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday asked the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel to act "responsibly" so no one else gets killed, after a week of escalating violence nearly...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo handed down death sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt. The defendants, most of them Congolese but...
VIENNA (AP) — A woman in Austria was found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbour with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media. A judge sentenced the 54-year-old on Thursday to four...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada's largest airline and business leaders on Thursday urged the federal government to intervene in labour talks with its pilots in hopes of avoiding a shutdown, but the labour minister said the two sides should...
LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia man drugged and sexually assaulted women he met online over the past 15 months, police said Wednesday in filing rape and other charges against him. Andrew J. Gallo, 40, of Levittown was jailed...
