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Mexican mafia busted for running crime rings in LA County jails

Published:Thursday | May 24, 2018 | 10:40 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County jails are run by the sheriff, but the Mexican Mafia wielded the power in the underworld behind bars. The organization made up of leaders from various Latino gangs operated like an illegal government,...

Protests against US exploring auto import tariffs

Published:Thursday | May 24, 2018 | 10:30 AM

BEIJING (AP) — China, Japan and the European Union condemned Thursday the Trump administration’s decision to launch an investigation into whether tariffs are needed on imports of vehicles and automotive parts into the United States....

Trump cancels North Korean summit

Published:Thursday | May 24, 2018 | 9:04 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is cancelling the planned June 12 summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, citing the “tremendous anger and open hostility” in a recent statement from North Korea. Trump says in a...

Estimated 7,000 bodies may be buried at former asylum

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

STARKVILLE, Mississippi (AP):Some of the boxes stacked inside anthropologist Molly Zuckerman's laboratory contain full bones a skull, a jaw, or a leg. Others contain only plastic bags of bone fragments that Zuckerman describes as "grit".These...

High hopes but tough road for black woman in governor's race

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

ATLANTA (AP):She's a Yale-educated attorney and a romance novelist who served a decade in the Georgia Legislature. Now, Stacey Abrams has gained a shot at becoming the first black woman elected governor in US history.Abrams, 44, easily won the...

Yulia Skripal says recovery from poisoning 'slow, painful'

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned with her ex-spy father in a nerve agent attack, said yesterday her recovery has been "slow and painful" and that she hopes to return to her home in Russia someday.In her first appearance on camera since...

US health chief pledges more action if Ebola spreads

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA (AP):President Donald Trump's top health official said yesterday that the US and global partners will "take the steps necessary" to try to contain a new Ebola outbreak, asserting that the fight against infectious diseases is one of the...

US health chief pledges more action if Ebola spreads

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top health official today said that the U.S. and global partners will “take the steps necessary” to try to contain a new Ebola outbreak, asserting that the fight against infectious...

Foreign media depart on train for North Korean nuclear site

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WONSAN, North Korea (AP) — A group of foreign journalists departed by train today to watch the dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear test site after eight reporters from South Korea received last-minute permission to join them. The...

Pompeo hopeful N. Korea talks will take place

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the United States and North Korea (all times local): 11:15 a.m. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it is ultimately up to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un whether a planned summit with President Donald Trump...

2 patients who fled Ebola ward among the dead in Congo

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Two infected patients who fled from an Ebola treatment centre in a Congo provincial capital later died, an aid group said Wednesday, as experts emphasised that more community engagement is needed to prevent the spread of...

Woman accuses R. Kelly of sexual battery, giving her herpes

Published:Tuesday | May 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):R. Kelly sexually abused and demeaned a woman, locked her in rooms and vehicles for punishment, and infected her with herpes, according to a lawsuit that furthers a string of misconduct accusations against the platinum-selling singer....

Maduro declared winner in disputed Venezuela election

Published:Tuesday | May 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Governor open to lifting limits on child sex abuse lawsuits

Published:Tuesday | May 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM

MADISON, Wis. (AP):Governor Scott Walker is suggesting he's open to lifting the statute of limitations on civil child sex abuse lawsuits.Women's March of Wisconsin has asked all candidates for elected office to support a version of the Child...

Palestine wants International Criminal Court to investigate Israel over mass shooting

Published:Tuesday | May 22, 2018 | 10:41 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Calling it a “historic step” toward justice, the Palestinian foreign minister asked the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to open an “immediate investigation” into alleged Israeli...

Australian archbishop convicted of child sex abuse cover-up

Published:Tuesday | May 22, 2018 | 10:33 AM

NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — An Australian archbishop on Tuesday became the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in the world convicted of covering up child sex abuse and faces a potential two years in prison when he is sentenced next month....

US issues steep list of demands for nuclear treaty with Iran

Published:Monday | May 21, 2018 | 11:58 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Monday issued a steep list of demands to be included in a nuclear treaty with Iran to replace the deal scuttled by President Donald Trump and threatened “the strongest sanctions in history”...

International outcry grows after Maduro wins presidential election

Published:Monday | May 21, 2018 | 10:25 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A growing roster of nations condemned Venezuela’s presidential election Monday and threatened to ramp up diplomatic and economic pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s already embattled government. A...

US, China putting trade war on hold after progress in talks

Published:Sunday | May 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The United States and China are pulling back from the brink of a trade war after the world's two biggest economies reported progress in talks aimed at bringing down America's massive trade deficit with Beijing."We are putting the...

World of uncertainty: Hawaii lava reaches sea, injures man

Published:Sunday | May 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PAHOA, Hawaii (AP):A volcano that is oozing, spewing and exploding on Hawaii's Big Island has got more hazardous in recent days, with rivers of molten rock flowing into the ocean and flying lava causing the first major injury.Kilauea volcano began...

Trump to demand DOJ review claims of FBI spy on campaign

Published:Sunday | May 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):United States President Donald Trump said yesterday that he will "demand" this week that the Justice Department open an investigation into whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign for political purposes and whether any...

Iraq's al-Sadr, promising reform, is constrained by Iran

Published:Sunday | May 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BAGHDAD (AP):Iraq's Muqtada al-Sadr, the maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favoured candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first.The electoral commission...

Company in Cuba plane crash had received safety complaints

Published:Sunday | May 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):The Mexican charter company whose 39-year-old plane crashed in Havana had been the subject of two serious complaints about its crews' performance over the last decade, according to authorities in Guyana and a retired pilot for Cuba's...

US, China halt imposing import tariffs

Published:Sunday | May 20, 2018 | 12:00 AM

China and the US say they will halt imposing punitive import tariffs, putting a possible trade war "on hold".The agreement came after days of talks in Washington DC aimed at persuading China to buy more US goods and services, therefore reducing the...

20 priests among dead in Havana plane crash

Published:Saturday | May 19, 2018 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):The Cuban Council of Churches says 20 priests from an evangelical church are among the dead in the Havana plane crash."On that plane were 10 couples of pastors, 20 people. All of the Nazarene Church in the eastern region," confirmed...

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