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8 people, 6 of them kids, killed in Chicago apartment fire

Published:Sunday | August 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

CHICAGO (AP):Eight people, including six children, were killed when a fire broke out before dawn yesterday at a Chicago apartment in one of the deadliest fires in the nation's third-largest city in years, officials say.Two other people were...

Mass shooting at Florida mall leaves multiple fatalities, injuries

Published:Sunday | August 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Several people have been killed in a mass shooting at an entertainment complex in Jacksonville, Florida, the BBC reported police as saying.The sheriff's office said on Twitter that many people had been wounded and urged people to avoid the area....

Colombians vote on anti-corruption referendum

Published:Sunday | August 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombians are voting today in a first-of-a-kind referendum that aims to curb corruption in a country where white-collar criminals are fast replacing drug gangs and paramilitary groups in penetrating the upper echelons of...

Pope apologises for Catholic Church ‘crimes’ in Ireland

Published:Sunday | August 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

KNOCK, Ireland (AP) — Pope Francis issued a sweeping apology today for the “crimes” of the Catholic Church in Ireland, saying church officials regularly didn’t respond with compassion to the many abuses children and women suffered over the years and...

A subdued Zimbabwe inaugurates Mnangagwa after disputed vote

Published:Sunday | August 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Zimbabwe today inaugurated a president for the second time in nine months as the country once jubilant over the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe is now largely subdued by renewed harassment of the opposition and a bitterly disputed election.The...

Two who received experimental Ebola treatment in Congo recover

Published:Saturday | August 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

KINSHASA (AP):Congo's health ministry says two of the first 10 people to receive an experimental treatment for the Ebola virus in the latest outbreak have recovered, and monitoring could show what role the treatment played.The head of the World...

Pope vows to end cover-up of clergy sex abuse

Published:Saturday | August 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

DUBLIN (AP):Pope Francis declared yesterday, as he arrived in Ireland, that he shares the outrage of rank-and-file Catholics over the cover-up of the "repugnant crimes" of priests who raped and molested children, and vowed that he was...

Robin Leach of ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ dies

Published:Friday | August 24, 2018 | 4:13 PM

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Robin Leach, whose voice crystallised the opulent 1980s on TV’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” died Friday. He was 76 Leach’s family said through a public relations firm that he died in Las...

John McCain discontinues brain cancer treatment

Published:Friday | August 24, 2018 | 10:48 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senator John McCain has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer, the Arizona senator’s family said. In a statement, McCain’s family said McCain has surpassed expectations for his survival, but...

Hurricane Lane dumps torrential on Hawaii, 5 rescued from flooded home

Published:Friday | August 24, 2018 | 9:22 AM

HONOLULU (AP) — Sirens wailed while workers piled sandbags in front of hotels and police blared warnings to tourists to leave the world-famous Waikiki Beach as Hurricane Lane barrelled north after dumping nearly 2 feet of rain on Hawaii...

Man kills mother, sister but no apparent terror tie

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

TRAPPES (AP):A man with severe psychiatric problems killed his mother and sister and seriously injured another woman in a knife attack yesterday in a town near Paris.French police shot and killed the man soon afterwards.The Islamic State group,...

Sex workers knock on doors for political candidate

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):Sex workers and people sympathetic to their cause recently knocked on more than 600 doors in New York City while campaigning for a political candidate seeking to decriminalise prostitution.Their work on behalf of Democratic state...

Trump speaks out about Africa again, and many cringe

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

By now, many Africans know to cringe whenever Trump and their continent are mentioned together.It's happened again. In a tweet containing inaccurate comments, President Donald Trump said he had instructed his secretary of state to "closely study"...

Sessions hits back at president: Won't be 'improperly influenced'

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump, newly incensed by campaign allegations, plunged back into his criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, claiming in an interview that Sessions "never took control of the Justice Department" after Trump put...

Hurricane Lane soaks Hawaii's Big Island

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

HONOLULU (AP):Hurricane Lane soaked Hawaii's Big Island yesterday, dumping 12 inches of rain in as many hours as residents stocked up on supplies and tried to protect their homes ahead of the state's first hurricane since 1992.The National Weather...

Manafort juror says 1 holdout prevented 18-count conviction

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 10:21 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A juror in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial says a lone holdout prevented the jury from convicting the onetime Trump campaign chairman on all 18 counts. Jurors repeatedly tried to persuade the holdout to “...

Zambia to tax internet phone calls

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 1:03 PM

Zambia will tax phone calls made over the internet to protect traditional telecoms companies, the government said Monday, a move activists warned would stifle freedom of expression. The increased popularity of internet telephony services like...

Jamaican workers file human trafficking lawsuit against US employer

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 9:46 AM

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —Three Jamaican immigrants have filed a lawsuit against a western Oklahoma couple alleging human trafficking. The lawsuit was filed in June. It is being alleged that husband and wife Walter Schumacher and Carolyn Schumacher...

Trump denies wrongdoing, says former lawyer is making up stories

Published:Thursday | August 23, 2018 | 9:16 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, incensed over a deal his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen cut with prosecutors, says it might be better if “flipping” were illegal because people “just make up lies.”...

Aftershock hits Venezuela following biggest quake since 1900

Published:Wednesday | August 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):A strong aftershock jolted Venezuela's northeastern coast on Wednesday following the most powerful earthquake to hit the area in more than a century, though officials said neither caused major damage or deaths, apparently due...

Facebook uncovers new global misinformation operations

Published:Wednesday | August 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Facebook has identified and banned hundreds of accounts, groups and pages engaged in misleading political behaviour, a far larger discovery than a "sophisticated" effort it reported three weeks ago with great fanfare.The social network said Tuesday...

Sanders says president has 'done nothing wrong'

Published:Wednesday | August 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The White House says President Donald Trump did nothing wrong the day after his former attorney Michael Cohen said Trump had directed him to make hush-money payments to two women with the express purpose of "influencing the election."White House...

Trump lashes out at former lawyer

Published:Wednesday | August 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Facing a growing threat to his presidency, President Donald Trump lashed out at his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, a day after the onetime 'fixer' implicated Trump in a campaign cover-up to buy the silence of women who said...

Trump lashes out at his former lawyer after guilty plea

Published:Wednesday | August 22, 2018 | 4:06 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a growing threat to his presidency, President Donald Trump lashed out at his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen a day after the one-time “fixer” implicated Trump in a campaign cover-up to buy the silence...

Indictments? Impeachment? A look at Trump’s legal woes

Published:Wednesday | August 22, 2018 | 9:30 AM

A bad day in court for his former associates could foreshadow hard days ahead for President Donald Trump. But it’s unlikely he’ll find himself in a courtroom facing criminal charges, at least while he’s president. On Tuesday,...

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