NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they nearly eliminated disease-carrying mosquitoes on two islands in China using a new technique. The downside: It may not be practical for larger areas and may cost a lot of money. In the experiment,...
SAN JUAN (AP): Cuba’s energy minister says breakdowns in the country’s power plants have caused a string of blackouts across the country this week, and he promises the problem will be solved by Saturday. Minster of Energy and Mining Raúl García...
NUEVO LAREDO (AP): Asylum-seekers gathered in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, grappled to understand what a new US policy that all but eliminates refuge claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better...
SAN JUAN (AP): Karla Villalón has three elementary-age children and an 81-year-old grandmother. Her kids have been uprooted twice in two years when first one school, then another, was closed by budget cuts under Gov Ricardo Rosselló. Her...
GENEVA (AP) — The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday after the virus spread this week to a city of two million people. A WHO expert committee had...
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has ordered that R. Kelly be held in jail without bond after a prosecutor warned that the singer accused of having sex with minors and trying to cover up the crimes would pose an extreme danger to young girls if...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council signed a document early Wednesday that outlines a power-sharing deal, but the two sides are still at work on a more contentious constitutional agreement that...
BERLIN (AP) — The German government is proposing a measure to make measles vaccinations mandatory for children and employees of kindergartens and schools. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet approved the plan Wednesday, noting the number...
NEW YORK (AP) — Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman waved to his family and placed his hand over his heart after being sentenced to life in prison. Joaquin Guzman thanked his family Wednesday for their support...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP): When an armed conflict erupted in his village in Congo, Blaise Matshieba Nduluyele fled from the carnage. Hundreds of people, including some of his relatives, were slaughtered. Death remained close as his family undertook a...
GAUHATI (AP): Monsoon flooding and landslides continued to cause havoc in South Asia yesterday, with the death toll rising to 78 in Nepal and authorities in neighbouring northeastern India battling to provide relief to more than four million people...
DUBAI (AP): A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) travelling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker two days ago, leading the US to suspect that Iran seized the vessel amid heightened...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant in the face of widespread censure, President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that his tweets suggesting four Democratic congresswomen of colour return to their countries “were NOT Racist,” and he...
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has arrested an alleged major computer hacker who has been sought by the United States for years. The head of Ukraine’s national security service Ivan Bakanov said Tuesday that Mykhailo Rytikov was arrested...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook’s ambitious plan to create a financial eco-system based on a digital currency faces questions from lawmakers, as it’s shadowed by negative comments from President Donald Trump, his treasury...
PATNA (AP): After causing flooding and landslides in Nepal, three rivers are overflowing in northern India and submerging parts of Bihar state, killing at least 14 people, officials said Monday. Farther east, 17 others were killed by flooding in...
CARACAS (AP): The Venezuelan government and the opposition are resuming talks aimed at ending the political crisis in their country. Venezuelan Information Minister Jorge Rodríguez said Monday on Twitter that he and the rest of the government’s...
MANILA (AP): The Philippine president has signed a bill into law penalising a range of acts of sexual harassment, including catcalling, wolf-whistling and persistent telling of sexual jokes, which pro-women’s groups have accused him of committing....
LONDON (AP): A spokesman says British Prime Minister Theresa May thinks President Donald Trump used “completely unacceptable” language in his tweets about four Democratic congresswomen. Trump said the liberal lawmakers of colour should go back to...
BEIRUT (AP): In an open field on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Raqqa, workers in black uniforms, surgical masks and red hard hats toil under a scorching sun to dig up bodies from a large mass grave discovered last month. They have so far...
NEW YORK (AP) — Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many places around the world, not only in authoritarian countries, but also in many of Europe’s democracies, according to a report surveying 198 countries...
Trafigura, one of the world’s biggest commodity traders, is to stop using intermediaries — the well-connected individuals who help set up contracts in resource-rich countries. The Financial Times reports that the company, which trades...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May and the two men competing to succeed her condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s berating of four female lawmakers of colour but stopped short Monday of calling his remarks racist. Trump...
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for soliciting the murder of her 76-year-old husband and helping to conceal his body. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports that Jackson County...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong, shallow earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Sunday, damaging homes and killing at least one person, officials said. Some people sent the night outdoors as numerous aftershocks rocked the Maluku island...
