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Indonesia sentences Briton to six months for slapping official

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2019 | 12:00 AM

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) : A British woman who slapped an immigration officer on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after missing her flight due to an expired visa was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison. Video showing Auj-e Taqaddas...

Court sends Jehovah’s Witness to prison for six years

Published:Thursday | February 7, 2019 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP): A regional court in western Russia yesterday sentenced a Danish Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison, in arguably the most severe crackdown on religious freedom in Russia in recent years. The court in Oryol found Dennis...

Venezuela military barricades bridge in attempt to block aid

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 3:34 PM

CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The Venezuelan military has barricaded a bridge at a key border crossing, issuing a challenge on Wednesday to a U.S.-backed effort by the opposition to bring humanitarian aid into the troubled nation. The Tienditas...

Florida teen who attacked mom with molotov cocktail charged as adult

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 1:57 PM

DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida teen will be tried as an adult on charges that he beat his mother with a baseball bat and lit her on fire with a Molotov cocktail because she scolded him about sneaking out of the house and using social media....

At least seven Jamaica deportees granted reprieve before charter flight

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 1:20 PM

At least seven people set to be deported to Jamaica have been granted a last-minute reprieve, with dozens more put on a charter flight for removal, according to activists. Campaigners working with those due to be deported by the Home Office believe...

Mississippi considers abortion ban after fetal heartbeat

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 11:38 AM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are considering what could become one of the strictest abortion laws in the country. Bills that passed legislative committees Tuesday would ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, as early...

Two escape immediate deportation to Jamaica from UK after legal challenge

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Two people have escaped immediate deportation to Jamaica after 11th-hour interventions by their lawyers as the Home Office was accused of trying to remove people while their applications to remain in the UK under the Windrush scheme were still...

Hopes high for concrete results from 2nd Kim-Trump summit

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 12:00 AM

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Governments across Asia on Wednesday expressed hope that a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam will produce concrete results that will lead to the complete...

Migrant caravan reaches town on Texas border

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 12:00 AM

A caravan of about 1,700 Central American migrants has arrived at the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle Pass, Texas...

Witnesses: Plane came down in multiple pieces in California

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 6:58 AM

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Apartment inferno kills 10; deadliest Paris fire since 2005

Published:Wednesday | February 6, 2019 | 6:56 AM

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Japan's finance minister apologises for criticising childless citizens

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2019 | 9:27 AM

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Finance Minister Taro Aso has reluctantly apologised for saying childless people are to blame for the country’s rising social security costs and its ageing and declining population. “If it made some...

Worst Paris fire in 14 years is suspected arson attack

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2019 | 9:24 AM

PARIS (AP) — Paris’ deadliest fire in over a decade claimed at least 10 lives Tuesday, sending fleeing residents to the roof and clambering across balconies as flames rapidly engulfed their nine-story apartment building. A 40-year-old...

Trump to tap critic of agency to lead World Bank

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2019 | 9:20 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to nominate David Malpass, a Trump administration critic of the World Bank, to lead the institution. That’s according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity...

President hits back at Trump over US presence

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Iraq’s president hit back at Donald Trump Monday for saying US troops should stay in Iraq to keep an eye on Iran, saying the US leader did not ask for Iraq’s permission to do so.“We find these comments strange,” said Barham Salih, speaking at a forum in Baghdad...

Pope in historic UAE visit urges faith leaders to reject war

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2019 | 12:18 AM

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pope Francis urged religious leaders Monday to work together to reject war as he opened the first-

Experts call for emergency declaration on Congo’s Ebola

Published:Tuesday | February 5, 2019 | 12:18 AM

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Man facing deportation to Jamaica gets last minute reprieve

Published:Monday | February 4, 2019 | 4:28 PM

A man who came to the UK from the Caribbean as a teenager is set to be granted an 11th-hour reprieve from being placed on a deportation flight to Jamaica. About 50 people are thought to have been booked on to Wednesday’s secretive...

New Jamaica deportation flights attacked as 'insult to Windrush victims'

Published:Monday | February 4, 2019 | 12:00 AM

Government plans to restart deportation charter flights to Jamaica as early as this week have been attacked as “brutal” and “a scandal” by leading Labour politicians. The Home Office said a flight to the island...

Hundreds protest in Germany against ban on older diesel cars

Published:Monday | February 4, 2019 | 1:04 PM

BERLIN (AP) — German police say around 800 people have demonstrated in the southwestern city of Stuttgart against a new ban on driving older diesel cars. Stuttgart, a German auto industry center, on Jan. 1 became the first major German city...

Tech companies, states spar with US govt over net neutrality

Published:Monday | February 4, 2019 | 11:25 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tech companies and nearly two dozen U.S. states clashed with the government in federal court Friday over the repeal of net neutrality, a set of Obama-era rules aimed at preventing big internet providers from discriminating...

Australia to create compensation fund for bad finance advice

Published:Monday | February 4, 2019 | 9:28 AM

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australians government on Monday agreed to create a compensation fund for people who lost money from bad financial advice and to set rules to help drought-stricken farmers avoid bank foreclosures. A government-...

EU inspectors visit Poland after meat exports from sick cows

Published:Monday | February 4, 2019 | 9:24 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Union investigators began a weeklong visit to Poland on Monday after reports that sick cows were illegally slaughtered and their meat exported to more than a dozen countries. Poland is a major exporter of beef...

Come together: Super Bowl Sunday, the last stand of live TV

Published:Monday | February 4, 2019 | 12:00 AM

ATLANTA (AP): Oh sure, there’s plenty of evidence to support the soothsayers who are predicting the slow, inevitable death of live television. And there’s plenty of proof to bolster theories about the NFL’s slipping popularity....

Nissan’s second thoughts on UK-made SUV add to Brexit worry

Published:Monday | February 4, 2019 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy took ­another blow Sunday when Nissan cancelled plans to make its new SUV in northern England amid continued uncertainty over the country’s future relations with the...

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