NEW YORK (AP): Several families whose loved ones died or were injured while trying to escape a smoked-filled Bronx apartment building sued the owners on Tuesday, alleging safety violations that led to the wrongful deaths of 17 people, including...
WASHINGTON (AP): In a flurry of diplomacy across two continents, President Joe Biden met with Germany’s new leader on Monday and vowed the crucial Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline will be blocked if Russia further invades Ukraine....
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP): Canadian lawmakers expressed increasing worry on Tuesday about the economic effects of disruptive demonstrations, after the busiest border crossing between the US and Canada became partially blocked by truckers protesting...
ROME (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI asked forgiveness Tuesday for any “grievous faults” in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but denied any personal or specific wrongdoing after an independent report criticised his...
BEIJING (AP) — China has ordered inhabitants of the southern city of Baise to stay home and suspended transportation links amid a surge in COVID-19 cases at least partly linked to the omicron variant. Classes have been suspended, non-...
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish retiree campaigning to keep in-person customer services at banks because he felt “left out” by the shift to online banking is handing government officials a petition with more than 610,000 signatures, amid...
ROME (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness Tuesday for any “grievous faults” in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but denied any personal or specific wrongdoing after an independent report criticised his...
IGHRAN (AP): Morocco on Monday buried five-year-old Rayan, a boy who was trapped in a well for days while rescuers struggled to reach him. The strenuous operation drew global attention, and mourners sent messages of condolences from around the...
LONDON (AP): Boris Johnson has brought in new senior staffers as he tries to restore his flagging authority – including a communications chief who insisted the British prime minister is “not a total clown”. Johnson hired Guto Harri, an aide from...
CARACAS (AP): A Venezuelan baby died and the mother was injured over the weekend when Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard officers fired at a boat transporting migrants, authorities from the Caribbean nation said. The shooting happened on Saturday...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Schools and businesses across Haiti shuttered their doors on Monday and large numbers of police patrolled the streets as the country braced for a grim anniversary. Monday marked not only seven months since President Jovenel...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Nicaragua said on Monday that it has lodged a diplomatic protest over an alleged incursion by naval boats from El Salvador in its waters in the Pacific. The Nicaraguan government news site, El 19 Digital, said on Monday that...
TEHRAN (AP): Iran’s semi-official ILNA news agency is reporting that two brothers in police custody have confessed to decapitating the wife of one of them, after a gruesome video of the victim circulated online. The report said the two men were...
Frontier is offering to buy Spirit Airlines in a $2.9 billion cash-and-stock deal that will create the nation's fifth largest carrier. The tie-up is valued at $6.6 billion when accounting for the assumption of debt and other liabilities. The...
MOSCOW (AP) — International efforts to defuse the standoff over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington to coordinate policies as fears of a...
IGHRAN (AP): An eerie silence fell on a Moroccan village on Sunday after the death of a five-year-old boy who had been trapped in a well for four days. For days – and nights – the community of Ighran, a village in a mountainous area in northern...
LONDON (AP): Queen Elizabeth II remembered the past and sought to cement the future of the monarchy Sunday as the United Kingdom marked the 70th anniversary of her rule. In remarks delivered in time for Sunday morning’s front pages, the monarch...
TORONTO (AP) — The mayor of Canada's capital declared a state of emergency Sunday and a former United States ambassador to Canada said groups in the US must stop interfering in the domestic affairs of America's neighbour as...
IGHRAN, Morocco (AP) — An eerie silence fell on a Moroccan village on Sunday after the death of a 5-year-old boy who had been trapped in a well for four days. For days — and nights — the community of Ighran, a village in a...
LONDON (AP) — As the United Kingdom marked the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's rule on Sunday, the queen looked to the future of the monarchy. In remarks delivered in time for Sunday morning's front pages, the queen expressed...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — It's a pattern becoming all too common again in West Africa: Mutinous soldiers detain a president, then seize control of the state broadcaster to announce they've taken over the country. International...
Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is...
IGHRAN, Morocco (AP) — The Moroccan royal palace said Saturday that a 5-year-old boy who was trapped in a deep well for four days has died. Moroccan King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to the boy's parents in a statement released...
IGHRAN, Morocco (AP) — Attempts to rescue a 5-year-old boy trapped in a Moroccan well stretched into a fourth day Saturday, with unstable soil threatening the painstaking work of trying to dig him out safely. Fears grew that it may be too...
GONDOKORO (AP): As South Sudan struggles for peace, it’s still cleaning up the deadly threat posed by thousands of land mines from previous conflict decades ago. Cattle herders. Charcoal collectors. Children. All have been victims of long-...
