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Trump says chaos in Venezuela is unacceptable

Published:Tuesday | September 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP):United States President Donald Trump says the political and economic chaos in Venezuela is unacceptable. But he's avoiding commenting on questions about whether the US would ever intervene in the South American country.Trump...

France's Macron assails nationalists

Published:Tuesday | September 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

United Nations (AP):French President Emmanuel Macron is assailing self-interested world leaders, saying that "nationalism always leads to defeat".Speaking yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly, Macron urged fellow leaders, "Don't accept...

Bill Cosby gets 3 to 10 years in prison for sex assault

Published:Tuesday | September 25, 2018 | 1:40 PM

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, becoming the first celebrity of the #MeToo...

Scrabble dictionary adds ‘OK,’ ‘ew’ to official play

Published:Tuesday | September 25, 2018 | 10:12 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Scrabble players, time to rethink your game because 300 new words are coming your way, including some long-awaited gems: OK and ew, to name a few. Merriam-Webster released the sixth edition of “The Official Scrabble...

Bill Cosby’s day of reckoning arrives in court

Published:Tuesday | September 25, 2018 | 10:03 AM

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Facing the possibility of prison at 81, Bill Cosby arrived at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse Tuesday to learn his punishment for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over a decade ago in what led to the first...

China summons US envoys over sanctions linked to Russia deal

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BEIJING (AP):China summoned the American ambassador and the defense attache and recalled its navy commander from a US trip to deliver a strong protest against economic sanctions Washington lodged over the purchase of Russian fighter jets and surface...

Venezuela says diplomats may be tied to assassination attempt

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP):Venezuela says diplomats from three Latin American countries may have been involved in an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.Communications ministry official Jorge Rodriguez said Monday that embassy staff from Colombia,...

Romania patriarch urges clergy to promote traditional family

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BUCHAREST (AP):The leader of Romania's influential Orthodox Church has urged clergy to promote the traditional family ahead of a vote on whether to change the constitution to specify that marriage can only be a union between a man and a woman....

Leaders honour Mandela at UN; his widow calls them to act

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP):World leaders looked to Nelson Mandela's legacy of championing peace, human rights and global cooperation but acknowledged that the world is far from achieving his ideals as the UN General Assembly's annual top-level meeting...

Kenya police charge provincial governor with student murder

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI (AP):Kenyan police have charged a provincial governor with the murder of a university student who claimed he had impregnated her in an extramarital affair.Migori Governor Okoth Obado Monday denied the murder of Sharon Otieno before High...

Iran: US wish to halt Iran's crude exports won't come true

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

TEHRAN (AP):Iran's oil minister has said that the United States will not succeed in its plans to halt Iranian crude exports, even as he acknowledged that South Korea has stopped buying oil from Tehran, Iranian media reported on Monday.The website...

Bill Cosby prosecutor asks for 5 to 10 years in prison

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 4:30 PM

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Declaring Bill Cosby doesn’t deserve a free pass because of his advanced age, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence the comedian to five to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman...

US considers limit on green cards for immigrants who receive federal benefits

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 11:59 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration has proposed rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance. Federal law already requires those seeking green...

Evacuations continue as North Carolina rivers rise from Florence

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 10:09 AM

BLADENBORO, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Florence is by no means done with the Carolinas, where some rivers are still rising and thousands of people were told to plan to leave their homes on Monday before rivers reach their crest. About 6,000 to 8,...

As Venezuelans go hungry, Trump targets food corruption

Published:Monday | September 24, 2018 | 10:01 AM

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The June meeting was conducted behind closed doors far from the klieg-light attention normally focused on Venezuela. Around a U-shaped table in a hotel towering above the Panama Canal, U.S. Treasury Department officials...

Cosby sentencing reveals generational divide over his legacy

Published:Sunday | September 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Keon McGuire has no real attachment to Bill Cosby or his landmark show.As a black man, he's aware of the sitcom's place in pop culture, but he was barely in elementary school when The Cosby Show went off the air. Years later, he mostly tuned Cosby...

100 years ago, the country fought its deadliest battle

Published:Sunday | September 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

ROMAGNE-SOUS-MONTFAUCON,France (AP):It was America's deadliest battle ever, with 26,000 United States soldiers killed, tens of thousands wounded, and more ammunition fired than in the whole of the Civil War. The Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918 was...

Kavanaugh accuser commits to hearing

Published:Sunday | September 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Attorneys for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, and the Senate Judiciary Committee have reached agreement for a public hearing on Thursday as talks continued on Sunday to resolve potentially make...

Stop Brexit? UK’s Labour party mulls backing new referendum

Published:Sunday | September 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party confirmed Sunday that it will hold a major debate on Brexit at its party conference this week, raising hopes among Labour members hoping to stop the country from leaving...

Iran’s president blames US after attack on military parade

Published:Sunday | September 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president today accused an unnamed U.S.-allied country in the Persian Gulf of being behind a terror attack on a military parade that killed 25 people and wounded 60, further raising regional tensions. Hassan...

China summons US envoys over sanctions linked to Russia deal

Published:Sunday | September 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BEIJING (AP) — China summoned the American ambassador and the defence attaché and recalled its navy commander from a U.S. trip to deliver a strong protest against economic sanctions Washington lodged over the purchase of Russian...

CDB opens office in Haiti

Published:Saturday | September 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) last Friday officially opened its Country Office in Haiti, the first outside its headquarters in Barbados.To commemorate the occasion, Dr William Warren Smith, president of the CDB, hosted an inauguration event...

Gov't summons US ambassador over sanctions move

Published:Saturday | September 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BEIJING (AP):China's foreign ministry yesterday summoned the United States ambassador to deliver a strong protest against economic sanctions lodged over the purchase of Russian fighter jets and surface-to-air missile equipment.The ministry's...

Thousands rally across Russia against raising pension ages

Published:Saturday | September 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP):For yet another weekend, thousands rallied across Russia yesterday to protest against the government's plan to raise the eligibility age for retirement pensions by five years.Several thousand people attended a Moscow rally organised by...

Woman stabs 5 - including newborns - at New York nursery

Published:Friday | September 21, 2018 | 3:19 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman stabbed five people — including three newborn babies — and then slashed her wrist early Friday inside a New York City home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed neighbourhood nursery for new...

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