HONG KONG (AP) — One of the world’s busiest airports cancelled all flights after thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators crowded into Hong Kong’s main terminal Monday, while the central government in Beijing issued an ominous...
HONG KONG (AP): Police fired tear gas yesterday inside a train station and in several other Hong Kong neighbourhoods where protesters occupied roads in another weekend of anti-government demonstrations. Protesters hurled bricks at officers and...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP): Afghanistan’s president yesterday rejected foreign interference as the United States (US) and the Taliban appear to be closing in on a peace deal without the Afghan government at the table. President Ashraf Ghani spoke...
ALBANY, New York (AP): Hundreds, if not thousands, of people who say they were molested as children in New York state are expected to go to court this week to sue their alleged abusers and the institutions they say failed them, including the...
JERUSALEM (AP): Muslim worshippers and Israeli police clashed yesterday at a major Jerusalem holy site during prayers marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. Palestinian medics said that at least 14 people were wounded, one seriously, in the...
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — An early morning fire in Pennsylvania at a residential building housing a day care centre killed five children and sent the owner to the hospital, authorities said. The fire was reported in Erie, a northwest lake town, at...
Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide yesterday morning in a federal jail launched new conspiracy theories online in a saga that has provided fodder for them for years, fuelled by Epstein's ties to princes, politicians and other famous...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The man accused of carrying out last weekend’s deadly mass shooting at a Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso confessed to officers while he was surrendering and later explained that he had been targeting...
AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — Police say a Georgia woman has been charged with a misdemeanour after she lied in a viral Facebook Live rant about being HIV-positive and intentionally infecting others. Americus police said in a news release Friday that...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving ahead despite objections, the Trump administration on Friday set a timetable for federally funded family clinics to comply with a new rule that bars them from referring women for abortions. The move is part of a...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he plans to introduce a new fast-track visa to attract more of the world’s best scientists to the U.K. Johnson said Thursday he wanted to “ensure our immigration system...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Just down the road were three more...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he has reassured the National Rifle Association that its views about the right to bear arms won’t be ignored in Washington’s response to recent mass shootings. Trump said he is...
LOS ANGELES (AP): A man “full of anger” stabbed, slashed, and robbed his way across two Southern California cities in a bloody rampage that killed four people and wounded two others who were apparently targeted at random, authorities said. The 33-...
WILLOW GROVE, Philadelphia (AP): A small plane has crashed in the backyard of a suburban Philadelphia home, killing one man and two women aboard. The single-engine plane went down around 6:20 a.m. Thursday in Willow Grove shortly after taking off...
NEW DELHI (AP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the nation yesterday that he stripped Kashmir of its statehood and special constitutional status in order to free the disputed Himalayan region of “terrorism and separatism”. Modi’s Hindu-...
SAN JUAN (AP): A day after Puerto Rico got its third governor in less than a week following angry street protests, top officials from new leader Wanda Vázquez’s own party were talking openly Thursday about their desire to see a fourth take over the...
MIAMI (AP) — A California man pleaded guilty in Florida to orchestrating a $1.3 billion fraud scheme that stole money from thousands of investors nationwide. Court records show 61-year-old Robert Shapiro pleaded guilty Wednesday in Miami to...
Amnesty International, a global human rights organisation, issued a travel advisory for the U.S. Wednesday in the wake of two mass shootings where dozens of people were killed, urging people to exercise caution. “Depending on the...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The City Council in tourist-dependent New Orleans is set to grant final approval to major restrictions on short-term vacation rentals such as those arranged online by Airbnb. Measures up for a vote Thursday will ban short-...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Venezuela’s government late Wednesday halted negotiations with the opposition in protest of the Trump administration’s freezing of its U.S. assets, thrusting into crisis the country’s best chance of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will pursue a free-trade agreement with Britain as soon as possible after it leaves the European Union, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday as the country’s new foreign secretary made...
BOGOTA (AP): For weeks, representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his would-be successor, opposition leader Juan Guaidó, have been shuttling back and forth to Barbados trying to agree on a common path out of the country’s...
ISLAMABAD (AP): Pakistan announced yesterday that it is downgrading its diplomatic ties with neighbouring India and suspending bilateral trade in response to New Delhi’s decision to eliminate the special status and statehood of Kashmir, a Himalayan...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court overturned the swearing-in of Pedro Pierluisi as the island’s governor less than a week ago, clearing the way for Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez to take up the post...
