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US searches of cellphones, laptops at airports on the rise, lawsuit claims

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2019 | 4:34 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government searches of travellers’ cellphones and laptops at airports and border crossings nearly quadrupled since 2015 and were being done for reasons beyond customs and immigration enforcement, according to...

Cuba’s May Day rally denounces new US sanctions

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2019 | 12:45 PM

BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have taken part in the country’s annual May Day march, filing past former President Raúl Castro and successor Miguel Díaz-Canel in an event dedicated to denouncing new...

Barr questioning comes amid report of Mueller frustration

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2019 | 9:02 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr will face lawmakers’ questions for the first time since releasing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report and amid new revelations Mueller expressed frustration to...

‘Incredibly difficult’ to reach cyclone survivors

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2019 | 12:00 AM

PEMBA (AP): Rains were still pounding parts of northern Mozambique yesterday, several days after Cyclone Kenneth, while the United Nations said aid workers faced “an incredibly difficult situation” in reaching thousands of survivors. The death toll...

Venezuela’s Guaido takes to streets in military uprising

Published:Wednesday | May 1, 2019 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets with activist Leopoldo Lopez and a small contingent of heavily armed troops early yesterday in a bold and risky call for the military to rise up and oust...

Trump says asylum seekers should have to pay a fee to apply

Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2019 | 2:19 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is proposing charging asylum seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to try to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants seeking to cross into the U.S. In a...

Venezuela’s Guaido takes to streets in military uprising

Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2019 | 9:29 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets with activist Leopoldo Lopez and a small contingent of heavily armed troops early Tuesday in a bold and risky call for the military to rise up and...

UN chief demands that the world step up to stamp out hatred

Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2019 | 12:16 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) : UN Secretary General António Guterres demanded Monday that the world “step up to stamp out anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, persecution of Christians and all other forms of racism, xenophobia, discrimination and incitement...

Pastor, 5 others killed in church attack

Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2019 | 12:16 AM

OUAGADOUGOU (AP): A Burkina Faso government spokesman says six people, including a pastor, have been killed in an attack on a Christian church in the country’s north. The violence took place Sunday in the village of Silgadji, not far from the...

Trump offered joint review of Russian S-400 threat

Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2019 | 12:16 AM

ANKARA (AP) : Officials say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discussed with US President Donald Trump a Turkish proposal to establish a joint committee over Turkey’s plans to purchase Russian S-400 missile defence systems. A statement from...

Ban on banana-eating artwork draws ridicule

Published:Tuesday | April 30, 2019 | 12:15 AM

WARSAW (AP): A few hundred mostly young people jointly ate bananas outside Warsaw’s top national gallery on Monday to protest what they called censorship, after authorities removed artwork there featuring the fruit, saying it was improper. The...

After Sri Lanka blasts, government targets the niqab veil

Published:Monday | April 29, 2019 | 12:00 AM

KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (AP) — As Sri Lanka's long civil war ended in this once-contested region along its eastern coast, Muslim women eager to show their piousness began wearing the black niqab veil to hide their faces. Now in the wake of...

Global migrants’ journey stalls

Published:Monday | April 29, 2019 | 12:24 AM

TAPACHULA (AP): Thousands fleeing conflict or poverty in Nigeria, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Haiti and Cuba have travelled across oceans, through the jungles and mountains of South America, up through Central America on a route that – so far – ends here...

Thousands march against extradition law

Published:Monday | April 29, 2019 | 12:23 AM

HONG KONG (AP): Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Hong Kong on Sunday in opposition to changes to an extradition law widely seen as eroding the territory’s independent legal system. Many of those taking part carried yellow umbrellas...

Opposition pressures government to act on climate change

Published:Monday | April 29, 2019 | 12:22 AM

LONDON (AP): British opposition leaders are pressuring the government to act on climate change after weeks of protests put the issue at the heart of political debate. Scottish First minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday declared a “climate emergency”...

Socialists win Spain election, far-right emerges as player

Published:Sunday | April 28, 2019 | 12:00 AM

MADRID (AP) — Spain's governing centre-left Socialists won the country's election today but must seek backing from smaller parties to maintain power, while a far-right party rode an unprecedented surge of support to enter the lower...

Sri Lanka's churches shut, Catholics celebrate Mass at home

Published:Sunday | April 28, 2019 | 12:00 AM

AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Their churches closed for fear of an attack by Islamic State group-linked militants, Sri Lanka's Catholics celebrated Mass in their homes today as the island nation's archbishop presided over a televised...

Kids among 15 slain as bombs set off

Published:Sunday | April 28, 2019 | 12:00 AM

AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP): Militants linked to Easter suicide bombings opened fire and set off explosives during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces on a house in the country’s east, leaving behind a grisly discovery Saturday: 15 bodies, including...

5 dead, flooding feared after cyclone

Published:Sunday | April 28, 2019 | 12:00 AM

PEMBA, Mozambique (AP): Mozambique’s government urged many people to immediately seek higher ground on Saturday in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth, fearing flooding and mudslides in the days ahead as heavy rain lashed the region. At least five people...