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Published:Friday | April 28, 2023 | 3:49 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — FBI agents fatally shot a man who barricaded himself inside a Minneapolis home for several hours and livestreamed negotiations with officers as they tried to convince him to surrender. A federal affidavit released Thursday...

Published:Friday | April 28, 2023 | 11:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — With COVID-19 immigration restrictions set to expire, the Biden administration on Thursday announced measures meant to stop migrants from illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, both by cracking down on many of...

Published:Friday | April 28, 2023 | 9:18 AM

LONDON (AP) — The chairman of the BBC quit Friday after a report found that he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest over his role in arranging a loan more than two years ago for Boris Johnson, as scandals from the...

Published:Friday | April 28, 2023 | 12:56 AM

CAIRO (AP): Armed fighters rampaged through a main city in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur on Thursday, battling each other and looting shops and homes, residents said. The violence came despite a fragile three-day truce between Sudan’s two...

Published:Friday | April 28, 2023 | 12:13 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration announced on Thursday plans to open migration centres in Guatemala and Colombia for asylum-seekers heading to the US-Mexico border, a bid to slow what’s expected to be a surge of migrants as pandemic-era...

Published:Friday | April 28, 2023 | 12:12 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): Police in Kenya arrested another popular pastor on the Indian Ocean coast as the number of deaths linked to a cult in the area rose to 103 on Thursday. Pastor Ezekiel Odero “is being processed to face criminal charges related...

Published:Thursday | April 27, 2023 | 1:26 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) —The Biden administration announced on Thursday plans to open migration centre's in Guatemala and Colombia for asylum seekers heading to the US-Mexico border in a bid to slow what's expected to be a surge of...

Published:Thursday | April 27, 2023 | 11:57 AM

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows. ...

Published:Thursday | April 27, 2023 | 9:43 AM

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred...

Published:Thursday | April 27, 2023 | 9:12 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US economy slowed sharply from January through March, decelerating to just a 1.1 per cent annual pace as higher interest rates hammered the housing market and businesses reduced their inventories. Thursday's estimate...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 4:49 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two presidencies was convicted Wednesday after a trial that included testimony ranging from actor Leonardo DiCaprio to former US Attorney General...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 3:24 PM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — United States immigration offices have become so overwhelmed with processing migrants for court that some asylum-seekers who crossed the border at Mexico may be waiting a decade before they even get a date to see a judge. The...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 1:42 PM

LONDON (AP) — A sweeping British bill that will dramatically curb migrants' ability to seek asylum in the United Kingdom is due to be approved by lawmakers on Wednesday, despite critics' allegations that it breaks...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 1:38 PM

CAIRO (AP) — A rubber boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants sank off the coast of Libya and at least 55 people drowned, including women and children, the United Nations migration agency said Wednesday. It was the latest tragedy in...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 10:47 AM

CAIRO (AP) — Crowds of families have been growing at Sudan's border crossing with Egypt and at a main port, desperately trying to escape their country's violence and sometimes waiting for days with little food or shelter, witnesses...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 9:55 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore on Wednesday executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists that he was convicted on weak evidence. Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 9:06 AM

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — The head of Mexico's immigration agency was arraigned on charges Tuesday that he failed in his responsibility to protect those in his custody when 40 migrants died in a fire at a border detention centre last...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 1:20 AM

NAIROBI (AP): The death toll at a ranch in coastal Kenya that is owned by a pastor who is accused of leading a religious cult and ordering his followers to starve themselves reached 90 on Tuesday, as the country’s interior minister announced an...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 1:15 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) : President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for re-election in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” and extend the run of America’s oldest president for another four years. Biden...

Published:Wednesday | April 26, 2023 | 1:14 AM

HAVANA (AP): Cuba’s fuel shortages have increased dramatically with authorities suspending activities, including a concert by the country’s national symphony, as well as rationing gasoline sales and moving some universities’ classes online. Cubans...

Published:Tuesday | April 25, 2023 | 8:08 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Armed with machetes, bottles, and rocks, residents in the hilly suburbs of Haiti's capital fought back against encroaching gangs Tuesday, a day after a crowd burned 13 suspected gangsters to death in...

Published:Tuesday | April 25, 2023 | 7:18 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A ground assault by the Taliban killed the Islamic State militant who spearheaded the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that left 13 US troops and about 170 Afghans dead during the chaotic US...

Published:Tuesday | April 25, 2023 | 3:26 PM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The death toll at a ranch in coastal Kenya that is owned by a pastor who is accused of leading a religious cult and ordering his followers to starve themselves reached 90 on Tuesday, as the country's interior...

Published:Tuesday | April 25, 2023 | 2:12 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has fired one of its doctors who faced allegations, first reported by The Associated Press, that he had repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct. The United Nations health agency...

Published:Tuesday | April 25, 2023 | 12:21 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” and extend the run of America's...

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