NEW YORK (AP) — R&B singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Friday in New York to federal charges he sexually abused women and girls. The 52-year-old Kelly was denied bail in a Brooklyn courtroom packed with his supporters. He appeared sullen...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Friday published new laws that loosen restrictions on women by allowing all citizens — women and men alike — to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing...
ORLANDO, Florida. (AP) — Florida officials have declared a public health emergency to help deal with a rise in Hepatitis A cases. New outlets report that Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees declared the emergency Thursday to alert the...
GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambique’s president signed a peace accord Thursday with the country’s main opposition party Renamo to end decades of hostilities that followed a devastating 15-year civil war that...
WASHINGTON (AP): United States (US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday added former Venezuelan Vice-President Tareck El Aissami to its list of 10 most wanted fugitives. ICE posted a Twitter link to a ‘wanted’ profile on El...
KINSHASA (AP): The one-year-old daughter of the man who died of Ebola in Congo’s major city of Goma this week has the disease, the health ministry said yesterday, while Rwanda closed its border with Congo over the virus outbreak that now enters its...
JUNCTION CITY (AP): A regional gas pipeline ruptured early yesterday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalised five others, destroyed railroad tracks, and forced the evacuation of a nearby mobile home park,...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — The clock strikes 10 p.m. on a Friday night when the “Parent Patrol” enters a popular playground in suburban Reykjavik. The teens turn down the music and reach for their phones to check the time: It...
LONDON (AP) — Police say a 19-year-old British student fell to her death from a small airplane in Madagascar after opening a door in mid-air. Cambridge University natural sciences student Alana Cutland fell from a Cessna C168 on the island...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s president is giving up his United States citizenship, his office announced on Thursday, a decision seen by some compatriots as an attempt to win support ahead of a run for a second term. A statement...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s government has issued an epidemiological alert over the spread of dengue fever, which has killed at least eight people this year and is suspected of sickening some 55,000. Vice president and first...
SEATTLE (AP) — The United States has recorded nearly 20 mass killings so far this year, the majority of them domestic violence attacks that receive scant national attention compared to high-profile public shootings in recent years at schools...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Four inmates allegedly involved in deadly clash between prison gangs have died of asphyxiation while being transferred to a safer lockup, Brazilian authorities said Wednesday, even as they continued trying to identify the 58...
SHANGHAI (AP): United States and Chinese envoys held “constructive” trade talks on Wednesday, the White House said, after President Donald Trump rattled financial markets by accusing Beijing of trying to stall in hopes he will fail to win...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Gary Bodeau, says a motion to indict President Jovenel Moïse for treason will be placed on the agenda ahead of the presentation of the general policy statement of the new prime...
KINSHASA (AP): The man who became the second confirmed Ebola case in Congo’s major crossroads city of Goma has died, officials said Wednesday, adding that he may never have known he had the virus. The case renewed fears in the bustling city on the...
LONDON (AP) — British Airways has failed to block pilots from going on strike in a long-standing pay dispute. The airline lost a bid in the Court of Appeal on Wednesday seeking a temporary injunction to prevent strikes by pilots based at...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is facing its worst-ever dengue fever outbreak as hospitals are flooded with patients, putting a severe strain on the country’s already overwhelmed medical system. The mosquito-borne viral infection...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday it will set up a system allowing Americans to legally and safely import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada for the first time, reversing years of opposition from federal health...
MIAMI (AP): Mary Sardinas had prepared a room in her Miami house for the arrival of her son from Cuba. He’d sold his home and left his job, thinking he’d soon be living in the United States. That was two years ago, and he’s still in Cuba. Sardinas...
SAN JUAN (AP): The unprecedented resignation of Puerto Rico’s governor after days of massive islandwide protests has thrown the United States territory into a full-blown political crisis. Less than four days before Governor Ricardo Rosselló steps...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Dozens of relatives of inmates killed during a prison riot in northern Brazil have gathered at a coroner’s office to identify the 57 victims. Workers at the forensic institute in Altamira asked local authorities to bring in...
GILROY, California (AP): Only a few days ago, Gilroy was known for one thing: garlic. The rural community near San Francisco lived and breathed the prized, pungent crop. Now it’s the site of the latest American mass shooting. On Sunday evening, a...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Taha Shakouri keeps finding remote corners to play in at a Tehran children’s charity hospital, unaware that his doctors are running out of chemo medicine needed to treat the eight-year-old boy’s liver cancer....
LONDON (AP) — The fight to save the seas from plastic waste may mean the end for mini bottles of shampoo and other toiletries that hotel guests love to stuff into their luggage. The owner of Holiday Inn and InterContinental Hotels said...
