LONDON (AP) — It's a unique odd couple: A 93-year-old sovereign who has made a point of keeping her opinions to herself during her long reign is hosting a 72-year-old reality TV star-turned-president who tweets his uncensored thoughts...
BEIJING (AP) — China issued a report today blaming the United States for the countries' trade dispute and said it won't back down on "major issues of principle," but offered no clarification about what additional steps it...
VIRGINIA BEACH (AP): The 12 people who were fatally shot in a Virginia Beach government building on Friday were remembered yesterday during a sombre news conference and prayer vigil as officials sought to put the focus on those who died and not the...
MOSCOW (AP): Russia’s health ministry says 79 people have been injured in an explosion in a plant manufacturing TNT. The blast took place yesterday in Dzerzhinsk, 400 kilometres east of Moscow. An investigation is under way but the cause of the...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP): More than a dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls have flocked to California for the chance to make their cases to thousands of activists in the nation’s largest liberal stronghold. Candidates held rallies across the state...
WASHINGTON (AP): The momentum that supporters have tried to build for a new North American trade deal has run into some Trump turbulence. The Trump administration had taken steps in recent weeks to work with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to...
OXON HILL, Maryland (AP) — Eight spellers were better than the dictionary. They were better than anything the Scripps National Spelling Bee could throw at them. And they all ended up with a hand on the trophy. In the most extraordinary...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise announcement that could derail a major trade deal, President Donald Trump says he is placing a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, to pressure the country to do more to crack down on the surge...
NEW DELHI (AP): Narendra Modi was sworn in for a second term as India’s prime minister yesterday after an overwhelming election victory for his Hindu nationalist party in a country of 1.3 billion people seeking swift economic change. President Ram...
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel embarked yesterday on an unprecedented snap election campaign – the second this year – after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition and instead dissolved parliament. In what seemed an...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president on Wednesday named a trimmed-down Cabinet that is 50% women, making the country’s one of few in the world to be “gender-balanced.” President Cyril Ramaphosa’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration has changed its cannabis policy to allow passengers to travel with some forms of CBD oil and a drug derived from marijuana that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday he was legally barred from charging President Donald Trump with a crime but pointedly emphasised that his Russia report did not exonerate the president. If he could have cleared...
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Fighting to maintain its access to major markets for next-generation communications, Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging the constitutionality of a U.S. law that limits its sales of telecom equipment. Huawei’...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Forty-two inmates were killed at three different prisons in the capital of Brazil’s northern Amazonas state Monday, authorities reported, a day after 15 died during fighting among prisoners at a fourth prison in...
BRUSSELS (AP): Here’s a brief look at the results of the European elections, country by country, arranged according to the number of seats they hold in the European Parliament: GERMANY: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s middle-of-the-road governing...
LONDON (AP): Nigel Farage, leader of the newly founded Brexit Party, said Monday that Britain should get ready to break free from the European Union (EU) even if there is no agreement on a divorce deal. His comments came after the Brexit Party and...
SEOUL (AP): North Korea on Monday called United States (US) National Security Adviser John Bolton a “warmonger” and “human defect” after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a violation of United Nations (UN) Security Council...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament on Monday passed a preliminary motion to dissolve itself. The move further pushed the country toward an unprecedented political impasse, less than two months after elections seemed to promise Prime...
TOKYO (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he is not “personally” bothered by recent short-range North Korean missile tests and doesn’t believe they violated U.N. Security Council resolutions, breaking with...
BRUSSELS (AP): From Germany and France to Cyprus and Estonia, voters from 21 nations went to the polls Sunday in the final day of a crucial European Parliament election that could see major gains by the far-right, nationalist and populist movements...
LIMA (AP): A powerful magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck a remote part of the Amazon jungle in Peru early Sunday, collapsing buildings and knocking out power to some areas, but causing only one reported death. The quake struck at 2:41 a.m. and was...
KHARTOUM (AP): A leading Sudanese opposition party said Sunday it has refused a call by protest leaders for a two-day general strike, in a sign of divisions within the pro-democracy movement that is challenging military rule in Sudan. The...
TOKYO (AP): Seemingly contradicting his national security adviser, President Donald Trump on Sunday played down North Korea’s recent missile tests and said they were not a concern for him. The comments tweeted during his trip to Japan were sure to...
EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — A tornado levelled a motel and tore through a mobile home park near Oklahoma City overnight, killing two people and injuring at least 29 others, authorities said today. The twister touched down in El Reno, about 25 miles...
