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Migrant caravan in Mexico to rest following report of abducted child

Published:Sunday | October 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

TAPANATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Coordinators of a caravan of several thousand Central American migrants moving through southern Mexico urged its members to rest Sunday. At first the migrants vowed to press on anyway but later changed their minds...

At least 10 killed in Pittsburgh synagogue attack

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PITTSBURGH (AP):Security has been increased at Jewish centres in New York City and elsewhere in the state in response to the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.Late yesterday, persons with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated...

'We are heading north!' - Migrants refuse offer to stay in Mexico

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Hundreds of Mexican federal officers carrying plastic shields blocked a Central American caravan from advancing towards the United States yesterday, after a group of several thousand migrants turned down the chance to apply for refugee status and...

Study: Hurricane Michael caused $158m in damage to Florida crops

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

ORLANDO (AP):A new study says Florida crops suffered US$158 million in damage from Hurricane Michael.The report, released last Friday by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, says that almost all of the state's...

Irish President Michael Higgins wins second term

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Michael Higgins handily won a second term as Ireland's president yesterday, capturing every constituency in an election that was marked by low turnout.The 77-year-old Higgins received 55.8 per cent of the ballots cast in Friday's vote,...

Bomb suspect: Ex-stripper with cash problems, Trump disciple

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Cesar Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former stripper, a loner with a long arrest record, who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along.Last Friday, he was identified by authorities as the Florida man who...

More than 100,000 rally in support of Congo ruling coalition

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

KINSHASA (AP)More than 100,000 people gathered yesterday in the capital to support Congo President Joseph Kabila's successor and the newly created Common Front for Congo (FCC) political platform before a December presidential election.FCC candidate...

UPDATE:11 confirmed dead in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting; suspect in custody

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A gunman who’s believed to have spewed anti-Semitic slurs and rhetoric on social media barged into a baby-naming ceremony at a Pittsburgh synagogue today and opened fire, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest...

Caravan migrants reject Mexico plan on refuge

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico (AP) — The Latest on the caravan of Central American migrants hoping to travel through Mexico to the U.S. (all times local): 6:45 p.m. Migrants travelling in a caravan through southern Mexico have rejected a proposal by...

The Latest: Migrant caravan advances after police blockade 56 minutes ago

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

ARRIAGA, Mexico (AP) — The Latest on the caravan of Central American migrants hoping to travel through Mexico to the U.S. (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Mexican federal officers have abandoned a blockade they formed on a bridge to prevent a...

Bomb suspect: Ex-stripper with cash problems, Trump devotion

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cesar Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former stripper, a loner with a long arrest record who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along. On Friday, he was identified by authorities as the Florida...

Suspect in custody in Pittsburgh synagogue attack

Published:Saturday | October 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Police said a suspect was in custody after a shooting caused “multiple casualties” at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday. Three officers were also shot in the attack at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh...

Man detained in Florida in mail-bomb case

Published:Friday | October 26, 2018 | 12:42 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities took a Florida man into custody Friday in connection with the mail-bomb scare that earlier widened to 12 suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats from coast to coast. President Donald Trump...

Death toll in Jordan flood rises to 20, mostly children

Published:Friday | October 26, 2018 | 10:08 AM

DEAD SEA, Jordan (AP) — The death toll from flash floods near Jordan’s shore of the Dead Sea rose to 20 on Friday, in what Civil Defense officials said was one of the deadliest incidents in the kingdom involving schoolchildren. The...

Congo hospitals openly jail poor patients

Published:Friday | October 26, 2018 | 9:57 AM

LUBUMBASHI, Congo (AP) — The most surprising thing about the fact that Congolese hospitals detain patients who fail to pay their bills is that it’s no secret: administrators, doctors and nurses openly discuss it, and the patients are...

New Mexico politicians, troops grapple with migrant caravan

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP): Concerns about an approaching northbound migrant caravan in Mexico are permeating campaigns for governor, Congress and U.S. Senate in the border state of New Mexico.President Donald Trump has targeted the caravan to highlight...

'French Spiderman' arrested after scaling London skyscraper

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):French urban climber Alain Robert has been arrested after scaling one of London's tallest buildings.Robert climbed the 662-foot (202-metre) Heron Tower without ropes or safety gear yesterday as police cordoned off the building, closed...

Packages to Biden, De Niro seized, similar to earlier bombs

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The mail-bomb scare in the United States widened yesterday as law enforcement officials seized three more suspicious packages - two addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden and one to actor Robert De Niro - and said they were...

Ethiopia elects 1st female president

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2018 | 1:57 PM

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers on Thursday unanimously elected the country’s first female president, days after approving one of the world’s few “gender-balanced” Cabinets. As seasoned diplomat Sahle-...

UK fines Facebook over data privacy scandal, EU seeks audit

Published:Thursday | October 25, 2018 | 10:40 AM

LONDON (AP) — British regulators on Thursday slapped Facebook with a fine of 500,000 pounds ($644,000) — the maximum possible — for failing to protect the privacy of its users in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. At the same time,...

Putin says Russia will target nations hosting US missiles

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP):Russian President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that if the United States deploys intermediate-range missiles in Europe, Russia will have to target the nations that would host them.The stern statement follows US President Donald Trump'...

Migrants set out anew to distant US border

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

HUIXTLA (AP):Thousands of Central American migrants renewed their hoped-for march to the United States on Wednesday, setting out before dawn with plans to travel another 45 miles (75 kilometres) of the more than 1,000 miles that still lie before...

Bombs sent to Obamas, Clintons, CNN

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Crude pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, CNN and others were intercepted Tuesday night and yesterday in a rash of attacks aimed at prominent Democrats and a cable-news network often criticised by...

US approves first new type of flu drug in two decades

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2018 | 3:26 PM

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. health regulators have approved the first new type of flu drug in two decades. Wednesday’s approval of Xofluza for people age 12 and older comes ahead of the brunt of this winter’s flu season. Xofluza is...

EU parliament backs ban, limits on single-use plastics

Published:Wednesday | October 24, 2018 | 11:44 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed a wide-ranging ban on single-use plastics to counter pollution in seas, fields and waterways. The ban would affect a range of products for which valid alternatives are...

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