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President calls for unity as protesters reject appeal

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2019 | 12:22 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday urged a pause in the unrest that has paralyzed the Caribbean nation, but offered no solution to the demands of protesters furious over corruption, a gasolene shortage and growing...

Police dismantle ‘birth industry’ that sold babies

Published:Thursday | September 26, 2019 | 12:06 AM

THESSALONIK (AP): Police in northern Greece say they have dismantled what they described as an illegal “birth industry” that involved the sale of babies for adoption. Police said Wednesday, 12 people have been arrested, and that 66 people have been...

UK opposition leader rejects PM’s election call

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2019 | 2:03 PM

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s main opposition leader has rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s taunting demand for a no-confidence vote in the government, saying he won’t support a new election unless a no-deal Brexit is ruled...

Trump prodded Ukraine leader to investigate Biden

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2019 | 10:46 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader to work with the U.S. attorney general and lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript...

Furious lawmakers in Britain spar with government after suspension

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2019 | 10:15 AM

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers returned to the House of Commons on Wednesday, venting their pent-up anger over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s failed attempt to suspend Parliament and warning that democracy itself is under threat from...

Top UK court: Johnson's suspension of Parliament was illegal

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2019 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):  In a decision that badly undermines Boris Johnson's authority, Britain's highest court ruled unanimously yesterday that the prime minister broke the law by suspending Parliament in a way that squelched legitimate...

Trump faces impeachment probe

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2019 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump yesterday, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election-year clash between...

Biggest polluters did not make climate pledge

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2019 | 12:00 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): The 77 nations who committed on Monday to carbon neutrality by 2050 did not include the biggest carbon polluters – China, the United States, India, Russia and Japan. Most of the nations who made the pledge don’t emit that much...

‘Greta’: A young activist’s moment, praised and criticised

Published:Wednesday | September 25, 2019 | 12:00 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): She stepped on to the biggest of global stages to face the most diverse of audiences, and she made it count. “How dare you?” she kept saying to some of the world’s most powerful people. “You are failing us,” she told them....

Pelosi orders impeachment probe against Trump

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2019 | 3:31 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched the House into a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, acquiescing to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an...

UK brings travellers home as Thomas Cook bosses criticised

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2019 | 1:56 PM

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s biggest repatriation effort since World War II ramped up Tuesday as questions swirled over the pay that Thomas Cook executives received in the run-up to the tour operator’s collapse. As uncertain Thomas...

Zimbabwe’s capital runs dry, 2 million people affected

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2019 | 1:02 PM

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Tempers flared on Tuesday as more than 2 million residents of Zimbabwe’s capital and surrounding towns found themselves without water after authorities shut down the main treatment plant, raising new fears about...

British PM Boris Johnson rejects calls to resign

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2019 | 11:52 AM

LONDON (AP) — In a major blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Britain’s highest court has ruled that his decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks in the crucial countdown to the country’s Brexit deadline was illegal. The...

7 killed as school caves in

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2019 | 12:16 AM

NAIROBI (AP): A school collapsed in Kenya’s capital on Monday and killed at least seven children, officials said, while some outraged residents blamed shoddy construction. Two other children were in critical condition. “We were in class reading...

Vacations upended, jobs lost as Thomas Cook collapses

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2019 | 12:13 AM

LONDON (AP): Hundreds of thousands of travellers were stranded across the world Monday after the British tour company Thomas Cook collapsed in the middle of the night, immediately halting almost all its flights and hotel services and laying off its...

Meeting with Kim Jong Un ‘could happen soon’– Trump

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2019 | 12:13 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): United States President Donald Trump says another meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “could happen soon”. Trump didn’t elaborate on Monday at the start of UN meetings in New York about a possible fourth meeting with...

UK, France and Germany blame Iran for Saudi oil attacks

Published:Monday | September 23, 2019 | 4:24 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Britain, France and Germany joined the United States on Monday in blaming Iran for attacks on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, but the Iranian foreign minister pointed to claims of responsibility by Yemeni rebels and...

UN chief urges action to make Earth carbon neutral by 2050

Published:Monday | September 23, 2019 | 1:35 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Leader after leader told the United Nations on Monday that they will do more to prevent a warming world from reaching even more dangerous levels. But as they made their pledges at the Climate Action Summit, they...

Albania quake causes 340 aftershocks, people afraid to go home

Published:Monday | September 23, 2019 | 10:33 AM

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Fear and safety hazards kept many residents of Albania’s capital of Tirana and the port city of Durres out of their homes Sunday after an earthquake the day before injured 105 people and damaged hundreds of...

Travel chaos, jobs lost as UK firm Thomas Cook collapses

Published:Monday | September 23, 2019 | 8:57 AM

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of travellers were stranded across the world Monday after British tour company Thomas Cook collapsed, immediately halting almost all its flights and hotel services and laying off all its employees. Britain...

Protesters trample flag

Published:Monday | September 23, 2019 | 12:12 AM

Protesters in Hong Kong have trampled a Chinese flag, vandalised a subway station and set a fire across a wide street, as pro-democracy demonstrations took a violent turn once again. Sunday’s action began peacefully, as protesters filled a shopping...

Rouhani asks West to leave Persian Gulf as tensions heightened

Published:Monday | September 23, 2019 | 12:10 AM

TEHRAN (AP): Iran’s president on Sunday called on Western powers to leave the security of the Persian Gulf to regional nations led by Tehran, criticising a new US-led coalition patrolling the region’s waterways as nationwide parades showcased the...

Arab lawmakers endorse Gantz for PM

Published:Monday | September 23, 2019 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): The Arab bloc in Israel’s parliament has endorsed Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz for prime minister. With that nod, Gantz looks to edge by incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu in the number of lawmakers who will endorse him....

Fifth death linked to storm that walloped Houston area

Published:Sunday | September 22, 2019 | 12:00 AM

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — The widespread damage brought to the Houston area by one of the wettest tropical cyclones in U.S. history came into broader view yesterday, as floodwaters receded to reveal the exhausting cleanup effort that lies ahead...

Young protesters around globe demand climate-change action

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2019 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP): A wave of climate-change protests swept across the globe yesterday, with hundreds of thousands of young people sending a message to leaders headed for a UN summit: The warming world can’t wait for action. Marches, rallies and...

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