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A shredded book, a passport: What 157 victims left behind

Published:Tuesday | March 12, 2019 | 12:00 AM

HEJERE (AP): What little was left was heartbreaking: A battered passport. A shredded book. Business cards in many languages. Searchers in white gloves and canvas shoes picked their way through the scattered remains of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302...

Rouhani seeks to boost ties on first visit to Baghdad

Published:Tuesday | March 12, 2019 | 12:00 AM

BAGHDAD (AP): Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was in Baghdad yesterday, making his first official visit to the nation that Tehran once fought a bloody war against and later backed in the battle with the Islamic State group. Since Rouhani’s...

Gang takes 19 people from bus

Published:Tuesday | March 12, 2019 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): Security officials in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas say that an armed gang has hauled 19 people off a ­passenger bus. The gang allowed 22 other passengers to continue on to the border city of Reynosa. A Tamaulipas state...

Power station blast adds to sense of chaos

Published:Tuesday | March 12, 2019 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Witnesses say an explosion occurred at a power station in the Venezuelan capital as days of nationwide power cuts imposed increasing hardship on the country. Flames rose from the electrical facility in the Baruta area of...

Senator vows to seek recognition of Israeli rule in Golan

Published:Tuesday | March 12, 2019 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): Senator Lindsey Graham says he will push for American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a territory it captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. The South Carolina Republican toured the mountain plateau...

Boeing jet under scrutiny after Ethiopia crash

Published:Monday | March 11, 2019 | 6:02 PM

HEJERE, Ethiopia (AP) — Airlines in Ethiopia, China, Indonesia and elsewhere grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner Monday after the second devastating crash of one of the planes in five months. But Boeing said it had no reason to pull the...

12 infants die of hospital-acquired infection in Tunisia

Published:Monday | March 11, 2019 | 12:33 PM

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Twelve newborn babies have died in Tunisia after acquiring infections at the public maternity hospital where they were born prematurely, the country’s interim health minister reported Monday. Sonia Ben Sheikh, who...

UK leader pushes Brexit deal with frustrated EU, Parliament

Published:Monday | March 11, 2019 | 12:26 PM

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May refused to admit defeat for her European Union divorce deal Monday, despite deadlocked talks with the bloc a day before Parliament is scheduled to reconsider the plan it has already rejected...

Growing number of Boeing Max 8 planes grounded after crash

Published:Monday | March 11, 2019 | 9:40 AM

BEIJING (AP) — Aviation authorities in China, Indonesia and Ethiopia ordered airlines to ground their Boeing 737 Max 8 planes Monday after one crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board. The crash of the Ethiopian Airlines jet...

Flight recorders found in Ethiopian jet crash

Published:Monday | March 11, 2019 | 9:36 AM

EJERE, Ethiopia (AP) — Authorities in Ethiopia, China and Indonesia grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft Monday following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, and investigators found the flight recorders from...

Trump signs Bibles

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP): President Donald Trump was just doing what he could to raise spirits when he signed Bibles at an Alabama church for survivors of a tornado outbreak, many ­religious leaders say, though some are offended and others say...

EU playing games over Brexit – officials

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): With tensions escalating, Britain’s House of Commons leader said Saturday that European Union (EU) ­officials need to take seriously British ­proposals for ending the Brexit impasse before a crucial vote in Parliament. Andrea Leadsom...

More blackouts as opposition, government rally

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): The Venezuelan opposition and government loyalists held rival demonstrations in Caracas on Saturday as both sides prepared for what some fear could be a protracted power struggle. Meanwhile, more power and communications...

Turbulence injures 30 on flight from Istanbul to New York

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Severe turbulence injured at least 30 people aboard a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul that landed safely at New York’s Kennedy International Airport on Saturday afternoon, officials said. Spokesman Steve Coleman of the Port...

Plane believed to be carrying Algerian leader leaves Geneva

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA (AP) — An Algerian government plane believed to be carrying President Abdelaziz Bouteflika took off from Geneva today to bring him back home as major demonstrations against his rule have gripped Algeria. The 82-year-old Bouteflika...

No survivors in Ethiopian Airlines crash en route to Kenya

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A jetliner carrying 157 people crashed shortly after takeoff from the Ethiopian capital today, killing everyone aboard, authorities said. At least 35 nationalities were among the dead. It was not clear what caused...

Companies decry ‘valve turners’ who shut down pipelines

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

BISMARCK, ND (AP): As Enbridge prepared to move climate-damaging tar sands crude through a 40-year-old pipeline in eastern Canada in 2015, environmentalists and indigenous peoples including Vanessa Gray thought about what happened in Michigan just...

Key diplomat returned to Pakistan as tensions ease

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): India said Saturday that it was returning a key diplomat to Pakistan’s capital amid an easing of tensions between the nuclear neighbours, but also demanded that its arch-rival take concrete steps against terrorists operating from...

US-backed fighters could soon resume offensive against IS

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

BAGHOUZ (AP): United States-backed fighters could soon resume an offensive against the Islamic State group in the last area they control in Syria, an official said Saturday, adding that the battle against the extremists is expected to take three...

As blackout eases, rival rallies sweep Caracas

Published:Sunday | March 10, 2019 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP): Venezuelan opposition protesters on Saturday confronted security forces on a main avenue in Caracas, venting their anger over a nationwide blackout, shortages of basic necessities and the government of President Nicolas Maduro....

International Women's Day: Strikes, protests and holidays

Published:Friday | March 8, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Marches and protests were held Friday across the globe to mark International Women's Day under the slogan #BalanceforBetter, with calls for a more gender-balanced world.

Trump budget to include $100 million for Ivanka's women's fund

Published:Friday | March 8, 2019 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's 2020 budget proposal will include $100 million for a global women's fund spearheaded by his daughter Ivanka Trump. The White House said the budget, expected to be released Monday, will...

Massive Venezuela power outage raises tensions amid crisis

Published:Friday | March 8, 2019 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Much of Venezuela was still without electricity this morning amid the country's worst-ever power outage, raising tensions in a country already on edge from ongoing political turmoil. President Nicolas Maduro...

No 2020 White House run for Dem Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio

Published:Friday | March 8, 2019 | 12:00 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP): US Senator Sherrod Brown said Thursday that he will not run for president in 2020, becoming the latest Democrat to bow out of the White House race. His decision comes after recent visits to several early-voting states to...

Authorities raid Catholic church offices

Published:Friday | March 8, 2019 | 12:29 AM

SAN JOSE (AP): Judicial police in Costa Rica’s capital raided Roman Catholic church offices Thursday, searching for information about two priests accused of sexual abuse. The raids on offices of the metropolitan curia and the national bishops’...

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