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Trump confirms CIA chief’s secret meeting with Kim Jong Un

Published:Wednesday | April 18, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump yesterday confirmed that his CIA chief secretly met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea and said "a good relationship was formed" heading into the adversaries' anticipated summit.Mike Pompeo's highly unusual talks...

Nanny who killed kids, pleaded insanity convicted of murder

Published:Wednesday | April 18, 2018 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):A nanny who stabbed two children to death at their home while their mother was taking a sibling to a swimming lesson and their father was out of town was convicted of murder yesterday despite her claims that she was too mentally ill to...

Trump, Abe to meet despite strain over North Korea, tariffs

Published:Tuesday | April 17, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP):Top Trump administration officials say that major concessions, including a possible exemption from steel and aluminium tariffs, could be on the table for Japan as President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet in...

Man with three faces: Frenchman gets second face transplant

Published:Tuesday | April 17, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient - who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany.Dr Laurent Lantieri of the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris...

US gains key witness in drug case against rebel

Published:Tuesday | April 17, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP): U.S. prosecutors have apparently won the cooperation of a key witness in the case of a top rebel ideologue arrested last week on charges of trying to import 10 metric tons of cocaine into the U.S.An official from...

Former US First Lady Barbara Bush dies at 92

Published:Tuesday | April 17, 2018 | 12:00 AM

HOUSTON (AP) — Former US first lady Barbara Bush has died at the age of 92. On the weekend Bush was reported to be in failing health and after a series of hospitalisations decided not to seek further medical treatment, a family spokesman...

Searchers find vehicle in California river, two bodies inside

Published:Monday | April 16, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LEGGETT, CalifORNIA (AP):Crews searching for a family whose vehicle plunged into a rain-swollen Northern California river more than a week ago have found the sport utility vehicle and the bodies of a man and a girl inside, authorities said yesterday...

Protesters take apartment that put ex-leader in jail

Published:Monday | April 16, 2018 | 12:00 AM

GUARUJA, Brazil (AP) :About 100 members of a Brazilian homeless movement protesting the jailing of former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday briefly took over the beachfront apartment at the center of the corruption case against him.After...

Lawmakers advance bill to bar manufacture of 'ghost guns'

Published:Monday | April 16, 2018 | 12:00 AM

TRENTON, New Jersey (AP):New Jersey lawmakers advanced a measure to prohibit the purchase of firearms parts used to make untraceable weapons, or so-called ghost guns.The Democrat-led Senate law and public safety committee approved the measure...

Chemical weapons team kept from alleged attack site

Published:Monday | April 16, 2018 | 12:00 AM

DOUMA (AP):Syrian and Russian authorities prevented independent investigators from going to the scene of a suspected chemical attack, the head of the chemical watchdog group said yesterday, blocking international efforts to establish what happened...

UK's May tells lawmakers: Syria strikes were legal and moral

Published:Monday | April 16, 2018 | 12:00 AM

British Prime Minister Theresa May has told restive lawmakers that military air strikes on Syria were right both legally and morally. May has also accused Syria and its ally Russia of attempting to cover up evidence of a deadly chemical weapons...

Syria's allies say airstrikes undercut political resolution

Published:Sunday | April 15, 2018 | 12:00 AM

DAMASCUS (AP):The leaders of Russia, Iran and the Hezbollah group in Lebanon said yesterday that Western airstrikes on their ally, Syria, have complicated prospects for a political settlement to the country's seven-year conflict.A day after the US,...

GOP attorneys general support citizenship question on census

Published:Sunday | April 15, 2018 | 12:00 AM

A Trump administration plan to ask people if they are United States citizens during the 2020 census has prompted a legal uproar from Democratic state attorneys general, who argue it could drive down participation and lead to an inaccurate count.Yet...

Trump unloads on Comey ahead of ex-FBI director's interview

Published:Sunday | April 15, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):United States President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of rage against James Comey yesterday over his forthcoming memoir, calling him "slippery," suggesting he should be in jail and labelling him "the WORST FBI Director in history...

US pastor faces terror charges in fraught trial in Turkey

Published:Sunday | April 15, 2018 | 12:00 AM

IZMIR (AP):An American pastor imprisoned in Turkey is going on trial for alleged terror ties and spying in a case that has increased tensions between Washington and Ankara.Andrew Craig Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical pastor from North Carolina,...

Arrests, injuries as French protesters challenge Macron

Published:Sunday | April 15, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say 63 people have been arrested and nine police officers injured as protests took place in two cities amid simmering anger at President Emmanuel Macron’s labour law changes.Interior Minister Gerard Collomb denounced...