Hurricane Ian is quickly gaining monstrous strength as it moves over oceans partly heated up by climate change, just like 30 other Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that became much more powerful in less than a day. This turbo-charging...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's assassinated hawkish former leader, Shinzo Abe, was given a rare state funeral Tuesday that was full of military pomp and surrounded by throngs of mourners as well as by widespread protests, with thousands taking to...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A Spanish judge on Tuesday approved a trial for Colombian pop singer Shakira on charges of tax fraud. Spanish prosecutors accused the entertainer in 2018 of failing to pay 14.5 million euros ($13.9 million) in taxes on...
LONDON (AP): The Bank of England sought to reassure financial markets after the British pound touched an all-time low against the United States dollar on Monday, but its entreaty fell flat for investors concerned about a sweeping package of tax...
MOSCOW (AP): Russia on Monday granted citizenship to former American intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after he revealed highly classified US surveillance programmes to capture communications and data from around the...
GENEVA (AP): Venezuela’s government on Monday rejected a report by independent experts working with the United Nations’ top human-rights body, who alleged President Nicolas Maduro had personally ordered the detention of government opponents, who...
HAVANA (AP): Cubans have approved a sweeping ‘family law’ code that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt, as well as redefining rights for children and grandparents, officials said on Monday, though opposition in the national referendum...
ISLAMABAD (AP) The World Bank said it will provide about $2 billion in aid to Pakistan, ravaged by floods that have killed more than 1,600 people this year, the largest pledge of assistance so far. Unprecedented monsoon rains and flooding this...
DUBAI (AP) Stores are selling winter clothes from last season in the middle of summer. Repair shops lack spare parts for appliances. There's a waiting list to buy a new car. Egypt, a country of more than 103 million people, is running low on...
MATERA (AP) Pope Francis travelled to southern Italy on Sunday to close out an Italian church congress that coincided with Italy's national election, and delivered a message that hit on key domestic campaign issues including immigration....
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The World Bank said it will provide about $2 billion in aid to Pakistan, ravaged by floods that have killed more than 1,600 people this year, the largest pledge of assistance so far. Unprecedented monsoon rains and flooding...
TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico (AP) — City worker Carmen Medina walked purposefully through the working-class community of Tranquility Village under a brutal sun, with clipboard, survey forms and pen in hand — part of a small army of officials...
TORONTO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada remained without power Sunday and officials tried to assess the scope of devastation from former Hurricane Fiona, which swept away houses, stripped off roofs, and blocked roads...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities and residents in Florida were keeping a cautious eye on Tropical Storm Ian as it rumbled through the Caribbean on Sunday, expected to continue gaining strength and become a major hurricane in the coming...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for all of Florida on Saturday as Tropical Storm Ian gains strength over the Caribbean and is forecast to become a major hurricane within days as it tracks toward...
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom's new government outlined plans Friday to cut taxes and boost spending in an effort to bolster the faltering economy, but the high-risk moves sparked concerns that increased public borrowing will worsen a...
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Hazardous weather has killed at least 36 people in northern India over the past 24 hours, including 12 who were struck by lightning, officials said as they warned of more heavy downpours in the coming days. Across the...
Published:Saturday | September 24, 2022 | 11:59 AM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for 24 counties as Tropical Storm Ian gathers strength over the Caribbean and is expected to bring heavy rain and hurricane-force winds to the state next...
Published:Saturday | September 24, 2022 | 11:30 AM
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Fiona washed houses into the sea, tore the roofs off others, and knocked out power to the vast majority of two Canadian provinces Saturday as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone. Fiona...
Published:Saturday | September 24, 2022 | 10:20 AM
Security company Marksman Limited says a Supreme Court ruling that guards engaged by the entity are employees and not contract workers will have consequences for the private security industry as well as security officers. The landmark ruling was...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has deployed thousands of additional doctors and paramedics in the country's worst flood-hit province to contain the spread of diseases that have killed over 300 people among the flood victims, officials said...
CAGUAS (AP): More than a half million people in Puerto Rico remained without water service three days after Hurricane Fiona slammed into the US territory, and many spent hours in lines on Wednesday to fill jugs from water trucks while others...
KAMPALA (AP): Uganda confirmed seven Ebola infections on Thursday as authorities try to track down 43 contacts of known Ebola patients two days after the authorities in the East African country announced an outbreak of the contagious disease. A...
ISTANBUL (AP): Turkey’s central bank delivered another massive interest rate cut Thursday despite eye-popping inflation above 80 per cent, moving the opposite way from world economies that are raising rates to control prices as the lira sunk to...
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia escalated its military and political campaign Thursday to capture Ukrainian territory, rounding up Russian army reservists to fight, preparing votes on annexing occupied areas, and launching new deadly...
