SEOUL, South Korea (AP):A mother wailed as she embraced a son she had not seen since the 1950-53 Korean War. A woman wept as she greeted a grandfather she never got to know.The scenes of Koreans meeting this week, likely for the last time before...
LONDON (AP):The British government apologised yesterday to 18 long-term UK residents from the Caribbean who were deported, or detained, because they could not produce documents to prove their right to live in the country.Home Secretary Sajid Javid...
BEAR, Delaware (AP):A Delaware woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to killing a man who was driving by her home.The News Journal reports that Cheryl Jennings's lawyer insisted she was innocent at Monday's...
Venezuela was this afternoon hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake which has affected the northern part of the country. The quake, which occurred around 4:30, had originally measured 6.7 but was later upgraded to 7.0 by the United States Geological...
US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and “fixer,” Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign finance fraud stemming from hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model...
A jury has reportedly found Paul Manafort guilty on at least five counts of felony tax fraud charges. It has reached an undetermined verdict on three more of the 18 counts against him and remains undecided on the other 10. Manafort...
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on whether to block a settlement the U.S. State Department reached with a company that would allow it to post blueprints for printing 3D weapons on the internet...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday came out with new rules scaling back Obama-era constraints on coal-fired power plants, striking at one of the former administration’s legacy programs to rein in climate-changing...
MILAN (AP):Heavy rain flooded a gorge filled with hikers on Monday in the southern region of Calabria, killing at least eight, Italy's civil protection agency said. At least another five were missing.The prefect's office said 23 people were rescued...
ISTANBUL (AP):Shots were fired from a moving car at the US Embassy in Turkey before dawn on Monday, an attack that came during heightened tensions between the two NATO allies. Officials said two people with criminal records were detained.There were...
GENOA (AP):Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge's strength by 20 per cent, a finding that came months before it collapsed last week, Italian media...
WASHINGTON (AP):The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming: the Clean Power Plan that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.A plan to be announced...
British Labour Member of Parliament Dawn Butler, who is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, has come out against celebrity chef Jamie Oliver accusing him of cultural appropriation after he launched a “jerk” rice brand. Butler said the...
BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply during the first six months of 2018 and at least 37 people have died. The U.N. agency’s European office said Monday more than 41,000...
WASHINGTON (AP) —The Trump administration is set to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming, the Clean Power Plan that restricts greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. A plan...
LONDON (AP) — The condom, the pill and now, the smartphone? Natural Cycles, a mobile fertility app, this month became the first-ever digital contraceptive device to win FDA marketing approval. Women take their temperatures and track their...
JERICHO, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian postal workers in the West Bank are sifting through eight years’ worth of undelivered mail held by Israel. In recent days the Palestinian postal staff in Jericho has been sorting through tons of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the U.S., the Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that threatens to undermine decades of government campaigns for gas-thrifty cars and other...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Shots were fired from a moving car at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey before dawn on Monday, an attack that came during heightened tensions between the two NATO allies. There were no casualties and no claim of responsibility for...
SEMBALUN (AP):A strong earthquake has cut power across the Indonesian island of Lombok and destroyed buildings as the tourist hotspot tries to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hundreds of people.The shallow magnitude 6.9 quake...
ROME (AP):The Italian engineer who designed the Genoa bridge that collapsed and killed dozens warned four decades ago that it would require constant maintenance to remove rust, given the effects of corrosion from sea air and pollution on the...
WASHINGTON (AP):Steve Bannon has a dire warning for Republicans.During a Sunday interview with The Associated Press, the former chief strategist to President Donald Trump said he believes the GOP would lose 35 to 40 seats in the House if the...
CHENGANNUR, India (AP) — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, officials said today, as rescuers searched for people stranded in the worst-...
GENOA, Italy (AP) — Italy’s president demanded guarantees yesterday that all the nation’s roads are safe following the Genoa highway bridge collapse, after he hugged and comforted mourners at a state funeral in the grieving port...
SEMBALUN, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake jolted the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok today, causing landslides and damaging buildings, as the island tries to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hundreds of people....
