OUAGADOUGOU (AP): Burkina Faso’s new junta leadership called for an end to the unrest on Sunday, a day after angry protesters attacked the French Embassy and other buildings following the West African nation’s second coup this year. In a statement...
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — With the death toll from Hurricane Ian rising and hundreds of thousands of people without power in Florida and the Carolinas, United States officials vowed Sunday to unleash a massive amount of federal disaster aid as...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso's ousted coup leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba left the country for Togo Sunday two days after he himself was overthrown in a coup, while the new junta urged citizens...
MADRID (AP) — A minute of silence was observed before football matches around the world on Sunday in honour of victims of the disaster at a stadium in Indonesia that claimed at least 125 lives, and top players, coaches and leagues sent...
DALLAS (AP) — After Mary Brooks was found dead on the floor of her Dallas-area condo, grocery bags from a shopping trip still on her countertop, authorities decided the 87-year-old had died of natural causes. Even after her family discovered...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Angry protesters attacked the French Embassy in Burkina Faso's capital Saturday after supporters of the West African nation's new coup leader accused France of harbouring the ousted interim president,...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A United States federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Mexican government against American gun manufacturers arguing their commercial practises has led to bloodshed in Mexico. Judge F. Dennis Saylor in...
STUYVESANT, N.Y. (AP) — Harvest season means long days for United States farmworkers — but usually no overtime pay. Federal law exempts farms from rules entitling most workers to 1.5 times their regular wage when they work more...
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Florida's flooded homes from Hurricane Ian while authorities in South Carolina began assessing damage from its strike there as the remnants of one of the...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations will seek $800 million more in aid from the international community to respond to the soaring life-saving needs of Pakistani flood survivors, a UN official said Friday. The unprecedented deluges —...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — More than a dozen soldiers seized control of Burkina Faso's state television late Friday, declaring that the country's coup leader-turned-president, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba,...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say an Albuquerque man and his 12-year-old nephew are behind a string of recent armed robberies at retail clothing stores. Albuquerque police said Thursday night that Jason Pete Roper and his nephew were...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A revived Hurricane Ian made landfall on coastal South Carolina on Friday, threatening the historic city of Charleston with severe flooding after the deadly storm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and trapped...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and its allies hit back at Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday, slapping sanctions on more than 1,000 people and companies including arms supply networks, as Moscow and the West...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled Friday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha can remain in his job and did not violate a constitutional provision limiting him to eight years in office. Opposition lawmakers had...
VATICAN CITY (AP) : The Catholic Church’s decades-long sex abuse scandal caught up with a Nobel Peace Prize winner on Thursday, with the Vatican confirming that it had sanctioned the East Timor independence hero, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo,...
KYIV (AP): Russia planned to annex more of Ukraine on Friday in an escalation of the seven-month war that was expected to isolate the Kremlin further, draw it more international punishment, and bring Ukraine extra military, political and economic...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden on Thursday said “our entire country hurts” along with the people of Florida after Hurricane Ian flooded communities across the state, knocked out power, forced people into shelters, and raised fears of a “...
THE HAGUE (AP): A frail 87-year-old Rwandan accused of encouraging and bankrolling the country’s 1994 genocide boycotted the opening of his trial at a United Nations tribunal on Thursday, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre left 800,000...
Published:Thursday | September 29, 2022 | 12:12 AM
KYIV (AP): Russia positioned itself Wednesday to formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated “referendum” on living under Moscow’s rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged...
Published:Thursday | September 29, 2022 | 12:11 AM
ROME (AP): Italians marched through Rome, Milan and other cities Wednesday to protect access to abortion, which many fear will be under threat by a far-right party expected to form the next government after leading in parliamentary elections....
Published:Thursday | September 29, 2022 | 12:11 AM
BERLIN (AP): Austria announced Wednesday that it will start checking travel documents at its border with Slovakia following a similar decision by the Czech Republic to keep migrants from entering without authorisation. The checks were set to start...
Published:Wednesday | September 28, 2022 | 2:56 PM
CHICAGO (AP) — The gun-maker Smith & Wesson illegally targeted young men at risk of violence with ads for firearms — including the 22-year-old gunman accused of opening fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago...
Published:Wednesday | September 28, 2022 | 11:40 AM
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., (AP) — Hurricane Ian's most damaging winds began hitting Florida's southwest coast Wednesday, lashing the state with heavy rain and pushing a devastating storm surge after strengthening to the threshold...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's governor on Tuesday requested that the United States government waive a federal law to allow for more fuel shipments to the island amid concerns over a dwindling supply of diesel in the wake of...
