PARIS (AP) — Health officials in Paris said Wednesday that a young boy needs medical monitoring because tests conducted after the Notre Dame Cathedral fire showed that he was at risk of lead poisoning. The child, who was tested last week,...
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. food industry is asking the government to set aside competition rules so companies can coordinate supply decisions to combat shortages in the event Britain leaves the European Union without an agreement on future trade...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a government decision to fire a public servant who used a pseudonym to criticise government immigration policy on Twitter. The High Court’s seven judges...
LONDON (AP) — British Airways cancelled more than 100 flights to and from London airports on Wednesday after its check-in systems were hit by computer problems. The airline said a “systems issue” was causing delays and...
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow’s children’s rights ombudsman and other public figures have reacted with outrage to Russian prosecutors’ moves to remove a 1-year-old boy from his parents because they allegedly took him to an...
MOSCOW (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country will not deploy short- or medium-range nuclear weapons unless in response to United States deployments. His comments Monday came after a meeting with his security council concerning...
PARIS (AP): Environmental groups and one of France’s largest labour unions called Monday for stronger measures to ensure clean-up work at fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral does not expose workers and nearby residents to unsafe levels of lead. The...
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (AP): United States Senator Rand Paul says he underwent lung surgery in a procedure he says stems from injuries suffered when a neighbour tackled him outside his home in 2017. The Republican lawmaker tweeted that part of his...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says its door remains open should British Prime Minister Boris Johnson want to discuss his country’s departure from the bloc but it insists that the Brexit divorce agreement cannot be renegotiated. EU...
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say four people were shot at a vigil on a Brooklyn street. Gunfire erupted shortly before 2 a.m. Monday on Buffalo Avenue in the Crown Heights neighbourhood. Police say two men and two women were wounded and taken...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines’ Department of Health on Tuesday declared the country’s outbreak of dengue to be a national epidemic. The agency said Health Secretary Francisco Duque III made the declaration to improve...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Two Latin American governments with U.S. travel advisories have warned of the dangers of visiting the United States after two mass shootings over the weekend left more than 30 people dead. Uruguay's Foreign...
NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” ″Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letters by dramatising the...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Authorities in two U.S. cities scoured leads in a pair of weekend mass shootings that killed 31, trying to piece together the motives that led two young men to unleash violence on innocent people in crowded public places...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — Four California voters have sued to block a new state law aimed at forcing Republican President Donald Trump to release his income tax returns. Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law ...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Authorities say another person has died from a weekend mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, raising the death toll in that attack to 21. El Paso police tweeted that the latest victim died early...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling the recent mass shootings “evil attacks” that are crimes “against all humanity” and says unity must replace hatred in society. Trump gave a speech from the White...
CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations investigators assembled in the departure hall of Sanaa’s airport were preparing to leave with precious evidence: laptops and external drives collected from the staff of the World Health Organization....
ISSAQUAH, Washington (AP): Nestled in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires. The region, famous for its rainfall, has long escaped major burns...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): Indonesia’s sprawling capital and other parts of Java island were hit by a widespread power outage on Sunday that affected tens of millions of people. The eight-hour blackout began at around noon and caused disruptions in...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP): Iranian forces seized a ship in the Persian Gulf suspected of carrying smuggled fuel, state media reported on Sunday, marking the Revolutionary Guard’s third seizure of a vessel in recent weeks and the latest show of strength by...
Two mass shootings at crowded public places in Texas and Ohio claimed at least 29 lives in less than 24 hours and left scores of people wounded, a shocking carnage even in a country accustomed to gun violence. In the Texas border city of El Paso, a...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire in an El Paso shopping area packed with as many as 3,000 people during the busy back-to-school season, leaving 20 dead and more than two dozen injured, police said. Hours later,...
OTTAWA (AP) — A Trump administration plan to let Americans legally import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada is causing concern among Canadians who that fear it could cause shortages of some medications — as well as surprise by...
BERLIN (AP) — German customs authorities say they have seized 4.5 tonnes of cocaine in a container shipped from Uruguay, a haul with an estimated street value of nearly 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion). The customs office in Hamburg said Friday...
