NICOSIA (AP): Cyprus’ president is pledging to revoke any passports that were “mistakenly” granted to wealthy investors who were found to have committed wrongdoing. President Nicos Anastasiades says “errors” may have been made in granting such “...
LONDON (AP): British lawmakers were electing a new House of Commons speaker on Monday, with the seven contenders promising to bring a period of calm after the tempestuous tenure of the influential but controversial John Bercow. Members of...
LONDON (AP) — Nigel Farage has unveiled 600 Brexit Party candidates for Britain’s general election, and warned the governing Conservatives that the United Kingdom will never leave the European Union (EU) without his party’s backing. All seats in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has told the United Nations it has begun the process of pulling out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that he submitted a formal notice to the United...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tax returns can be turned over to state criminal investigators by his personal accountant, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Monday. The ruling by the 2nd United States Circuit Court of...
ORINDA, California (AP) — Airbnb’s CEO said the company was taking actions against unauthorised parties in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Halloween party held at an Airbnb rental home in California. In a series of tweets, Brian...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities restricted many private vehicles from taking to the roads of India’s capital on Monday amid a public health crisis that has left New Delhi residents gasping and their eyes burning from toxic air pollution....
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, yesterday put on hold a Trump administration rule requiring immigrants to prove they will have health insurance or can pay for medical care before they can get visas. U.S. District...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local): 7:40 p.m. Ventura County officials say firefighters contained 30% of the Maria Fire, which has burned nearly 15 square miles (39 sq. Kilometres) and continues to...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spaniards are voicing outrage after five men were acquitted of rape on the grounds that their 14-year-old victim had been unconscious at the time. The Barcelona-based court ruled Thursday that the men were guilty of...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison for his role in a Jamaica-based telemarketing scam that targeted elderly United States citizens. Federal prosecutors say 49-year-old Shawn Whitfield,...
DERBY, Connecticut (AP) — An immigrant sought by federal agents has eluded them by hiding in the public defender’s office at a Connecticut courthouse for more than seven hours. Domar Shearer was in Derby Superior Court on Thursday...
A man caring for his terminally ill partner has been told he faces deportation from the United Kingdom to Jamaica because the Home Office concluded that he “failed to demonstrate that his life would be at risk in Iraq”. The UK...
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago teachers and the nation’s third-largest school district reached a labour contract deal on Thursday, ending a strike that cancelled 11 days of classes for more than 300,000 students. Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed a package of ground rules for their impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump through a sharply divided House Thursday, the chamber’s first formal vote in a fight that could stretch into...
SYDNEY (AP) — Around a quarter of the world’s pigs are expected to die from African swine fever as authorities grapple with a complex disease spreading rapidly in the globalisation era, the World Organization for Animal Health’s...
A lawsuit Wednesday accused the Trump administration of preventing Americans from bringing their foreign spouses and parents to live with them in the United States by requiring those immigrants to prove they can afford health care before they get...
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A massive fire caused by a cooking gas stove erupted Thursday on a train travelling in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, killing at least 71 passengers, officials said. Flames roared through the train cars as...
MEXICO CITY (AP) : Mexican security forces had a son of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán outside a house on his knees against a wall before they were forced to back off and let him go as his gunmen shot up the western city of Culiacan. Defense Secretary...
TACUEYO, Colombia (AP): President Ivan Duque travelled Wednesday to a conflict-ridden zone in Colombia’s southwest to oversee a military offensive aimed at hunting down a band of suspected renegade rebels blamed for the killing of five indigenous...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP): Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said Wednesday that he is cancelling two major international summits so he can respond to protracted nationwide protests over economic inequality that have left more than a dozen people dead...
PARIS (AP): When a far-right French official disrupted a regional council meeting to demand that a Muslim woman accompanying a group of schoolchildren be ordered to remove her headscarf, “in the name of our secular principles,” her own child buried...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP): Denmark said Wednesday it is giving permission for a joint German-Russian underwater gas pipeline to be laid through its territory, in a blow to the United States, which had fiercely opposed the project. The decision by...
ATLANTA (AP) — A small plane crashed into a townhouse Wednesday morning in a leafy Atlanta-area neighbourhood near a major interstate, killing at least one person and tearing off the home’s brick exterior, authorities said. The...
Facebook sued the Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group on Tuesday in US federal court for allegedly targeting some 1,400 users of its encrypted messaging service WhatsApp with highly sophisticated spyware. The lawsuit filed in San Francisco is...
