PORT AU PRINCE, CMC Six months after an official decree had been issued the immediate family of a police officer killed during the line of work has received financial compensation. The decree published on July 1, last year, provides for special...
ROME (AP): Dubai ended its 30 per cent tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom Sunday and made its required liquor licences free to obtain, ending a longstanding source of revenue for its ruling family to apparently further boost tourism to the...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fifteen people are dead and 47 are being treated for their injuries after a bus carrying holiday season tourists flipped on a highway in Mexico's Pacific coast state of Nayarit, authorities said Saturday. Officials in...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin's New Year's address to the nation usually is rather anodyne and backed with a soothing view of a snowy Kremlin. This year, with soldiers in the background, he lashed out at the West and...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Howard Fischer, a 63-year-old investor living north of New York City, has a wish for when he dies. He wants his remains to be placed in a vessel, broken down by tiny microbes and composted into rich, fertile soil. Maybe...
A woman who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1986 sued the comedian-actor, NBCUniversal, and other companies Friday in New York, where five other women filed a similar lawsuit earlier this month. Stacey Pinkerton says she...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — With countdowns and fireworks, revellers in major city centres across the Asia-Pacific region ushered in the first new year without COVID-19 restrictions since the pandemic began in 2020. While COVID-19 continues...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularised Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, died Saturday. He...
RAQQA (AP): Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house in the Syrian city of Raqqa. The single mother of four said people look at her with suspicion and refuse to offer her a job, while her children get bullied and beaten up at school. She and...
ABUJA (AP): Margret Yama’s phone screensaver is a picture of her cousin, Rifkatu Galang, who is still held by Boko Haram extremists nearly nine years after she and 275 other girls were seized from their school in northeastern Nigeria. Yama was...
KYIV (AP): Ten months into Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine, overwhelming evidence shows the Kremlin’s troops have waged total war, with disregard for international laws governing the treatment of civilians and conduct on the battlefield....
POIPET (AP): The search for bodies in the shell of a burned-out casino hotel complex in western Cambodia has concluded with 26 people confirmed dead, a senior official said late Friday. Banteay Meanchey province Governor Um Reatrey told AP by...
ABC News has announced that Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent, has died. She was 93. Walters joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news...
SAO PAULO (AP) — The office of Brazil's vice president says he has become acting president, an indication that President Jair Bolsonaro has left the country and will break tradition by skipping the inauguration Sunday of his political...
KINGSHILL, US Virgin Islands (AP) — President Joe Biden has pardoned six people who have served out sentences after convictions on a murder charge and drug- and alcohol-related crimes, including an 80-year-old woman convicted of killing...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Friday started requiring COVID-19 tests for all passengers arriving from China as an emergency measure against surging infections there as the Asian island country faces its own rising case numbers and record-...
POIPET, Cambodia (AP) — The search for bodies in the wreckage of a burned-out casino hotel complex in western Cambodia has concluded with 26 people confirmed dead, a senior official said late Friday. Banteay Meanchey province Governor Um...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A judge in Bolivia sentenced opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho to four months of pretrial detention on terrorism charges early Friday, a move that is bound to increase divisions and unrest in the country. After a...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Almost three years after officials announced the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Indonesia, the country's leader said Friday they are lifting all coronavirus-related restrictions nationwide. President Joko...
Democrats in Congress released six years' worth of former President Donald Trump's tax returns on Friday, the culmination of a yearslong effort to learn about the finances of a onetime business mogul who broke decades of political norms...
MADRID (AP) — Spain will require all air passengers coming from China to have negative COVID-19 tests or proof of vaccination, the government said Friday. Health Minister Carolina Darías told reporters that Spain would be pushing for...
KABUL (AP): Major aid agencies on Thursday warned that Afghans will die because of the Taliban order banning women from working at non-governmental groups, and stressed that female staff are crucial for the delivery of life-saving humanitarian...
POIPET (AP): A massive fire at a Cambodian hotel casino Thursday injured over 60 people and killed at least 19, a number that officials warned would rise after the search for bodies resumes Friday. The blaze, which started around midnight Wednesday...
JERUSALEM (AP): Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday returned to power for an unprecedented sixth term as Israel’s prime minister, taking the helm of the most right-wing and religiously conservative government in the country’s 74-year history. The...
LONDON (AP) — Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81. Westwood's eponymous fashion house announced her death on social media platforms, saying she died...
