JOHANNESBURG (AP): South Africa’s Nobel Prize-winning anti-apartheid crusader, retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, cast his ballot in the upcoming elections. Tutu, 87, is in fragile health and took part in South Africa’s special voting for...
MOSCOW (AP): Venezuela’s foreign minister says the country may expand the presence of Russian military specialists there, as Moscow and Washington accuse each other of interfering in the country’s crisis. Russia has had deep military cooperation...
ROME (AP): Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has left a Milan hospital, six days after intestinal surgery, vowing to keep running for the European Parliament. The 82-year-old Berlusconi told reporters Monday he feared he had reached the “end...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to let an additional 30,000 foreigners return to the United States through September for seasonal work, a move that reflects how the booming economy has complicated President Donald Trump...
PARIS (AP) — The toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts and eight cases of serious depression among employees at France’s main telephone and internet company over three years. A long-awaited trial began Monday in Paris...
LONDON— Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are the proud parents of a new baby boy. The baby, who has not yet been named, is seventh in line for the British throne and is Queen Elizabeth II’s eighth great-...
NEW YORK (AP): It was called ‘collateral’ – nude photos and other embarrassing material that female members of an upstate New York self-improvement group turned over to their ‘masters’ to ensure obedience, silence and sexual fealty to the...
JERUSALEM (AP): Gaza militants on Sunday intensified a wave of rocket fire into southern Israel, striking towns and cities and killing at least three people in one of the bloodiest rounds of fighting since the 2014 war. At least nine Palestinians,...
MOSCOW (AP) — The latest on an airplane that landed in flames at a Moscow airport (all times local): 12:45 a.m. A fiery airliner accident at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport killed 41 people, a spokeswoman for Russia's Investigative...
MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on an airplane that landed in flames at a Moscow airport (all times local): 9:40 p.m. Russia's Investigative Committee says 13 people have died in a fire on an airplane that made an emergency landing at Moscow...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Conservative government and opposition Labour Party have a duty to strike a compromise Brexit agreement to end months of political deadlock over Britain's exit from the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa...
(AP): A chartered jet carrying 143 people from the US military base in Cuba tried to land in a thunderstorm in north Florida and ended up in the river next to Naval Air Station Jacksonville. Authorities said everyone on board emerged without...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): Indonesian authorities resumed their tough stance against illegal fishing in the country’s waters by sinking 51 foreign ships Saturday, as the government ramps up efforts to exert greater control over its vast maritime...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): At 24, Abetse Mashigo was born a year after South Africa’s brutal apartheid system was dismantled. Yet she still feels frustrated by what she sees as continued economic inequality for its people. And that will be on her mind as...
TROY, Missouri (AP): An eastern Missouri man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for shaking his three-month-old son so hard that he died. A Lincoln County jury on Thursday found 29-year-old Steven Kyle Schnell guilty of felony child abuse....
At least 90 people, including 65 children, are believed to have been infected with HIV in Pakistan by a doctor using a contaminated syringe, officials said. "We have arrested a doctor after receiving complaints from the health...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After years of pressure to crack down on hate and bigotry, Facebook has banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on “dangerous individuals.” The company also...
WASHINGTON (AP): Attorney General William Barr skipped a House hearing on Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report, escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department...
WASHINGTON (AP): Reports of military sexual assaults jumped by 13 per cent last year, but an anonymous survey of service members released on Thursday suggests that the problem is vastly larger. The survey results found that more than 20,000 service...
The grounding of Boeing 737 Max jets likely means that fare increases this summer will be larger than already expected and airlines will struggle to handle disruptions such as storms that shut down hub airports. With Max jets grounded after two...
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a London court on Thursday that he wouldn’t agree to be extradited to the United States, where he is accused of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer. Assange, appearing by video...
CHARLOTTE, NC (AP) Students at a North Carolina university were gathered for end-of-year presentations in an anthropology class when a gunman burst in and opened fire with a pistol, killing two and wounding four, a professor said. New details...
Clusters of anarchists and yellow vest protesters disrupted May Day rallies in Paris by throwing rocks, setting trash can fires and antagonising riot squads Wednesday, as tens of thousands of people marched through bursts of tear gas. Police...
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) : Authorities continue to investigate the Sunday evening deaths of four family members found shot in their suburban Ohio home. West Chester Township spokeswoman Barb Wilson said Wednesday the investigation is ongoing. Police...
A cruise ship with nearly 300 passengers and crew was ordered quarantined in the Caribbean port of St Lucia after a case of measles was confirmed on board, island health officials said Wednesday. One female crew member has a confirmed case and...
