WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrants who enter the United States illegally will be screened by asylum officers while in custody under a limited experiment that provides them access to legal counsel, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday. The...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has been granted two more weeks to fight his extradition from the United States on corruption charges, halting extradition proceedings that had been set to start Friday...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis, who was recently hospitalised for bronchitis, won't preside over Good Friday's late-night Way of the Cross event due to extremely cold weather in Rome. It said that instead of...
SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Eight Filipinos were nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ's suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of devotees and tourists to the Philippines despite being rejected by the...
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday laid the blame on his predecessor, Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments...
JERUSALEM (AP): The Israeli military struck targets in the Gaza Strip early Friday, pushing the region toward a wider conflagration after a day of rocket fire along the country's northern and southern borders following two days of unrest at...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP): Gunmen have killed at least 50 people during two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria, authorities said Thursday. Ruben Bako, chairman of the Otukpo local government where the massacre happened, said that gunmen killed...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): The United Nations' highest court ruled Thursday that it can hear a case between South American neighbours Guyana and Venezuela about a border dispute that dates back to 1899. The decision to reject Venezuela's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools and colleges across the United States would be forbidden from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a proposal released Thursday from the Biden administration, but teams could create some limits in...
VENICE, Fla. (AP) — The bodies of two men and two women have been recovered following a small plane crash just off Florida's Gulf Coast, police said Thursday. The plane had just taken off from Venice Airport when it crashed into the Gulf...
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III for the first time has signalled support for research into the British monarchy's ties to slavery after a document showed an ancestor with shares in a slave-trading company, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund chief said Thursday the world economy is expected to grow less than 3% this year, down from 3.4% last year, increasing the risk of hunger and poverty globally. Kristalina Georgieva said...
LONDON (AP) — A civil rights group urged United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday to follow through on promises made to thousands of people of Caribbean descent who were wrongly targeted as illegal migrants in the so-called...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A United States appeals court panel on Wednesday denied an appeal by former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique to stop his extradition to face charges he accepted millions of dollars in bribes as part of a...
WASHINGTON (AP): For the most devoted Trump conspiracy theorists, there are no coincidences and timing is everything. So when ex-President Donald Trump was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he falsified business records to obscure hush money...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and burst into a day care centre Wednesday in Brazil, killing four children and wounding at least four others, authorities said. The assailant turned himself in at a police station and...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea this month will begin weekly tests of sewage produced by its major cities and towns to track the spread of COVID-19 and identify future waves. Officials at the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday, according to the cryptocurrency platform and police. The San...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare centre Wednesday in Brazil, killing four children and wounding at least five others, authorities said. The assailant turned himself in at a police station and...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's main opposition party on Wednesday decided to oppose the government's model for constitutional recognition of Indigenous people in a development that appears to doom the prospects of a...
BRUSSELS (AP): Finland joined the NATO military alliance Tuesday, dealing a major blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a historic realignment of Europe’s post-Cold War security landscape triggered by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The...
NEW YORK (AP): Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records arising from a hush money payment to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign, according to two law enforcement officials...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Johnson & Johnson is earmarking nearly $9 billion to cover allegations that its baby power containing talc caused cancer, more than quadrupling the amount that the company had previously set aside to pay for its...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is holding over 1,000 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2003, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday. Israel says the controversial tactic, known as administrative detention,...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's privacy watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty Tuesday for misusing children's data and violating other protections for young users' personal information. The Information Commissioner...
