BEIRUT (AP):Rockets fired on a market in a government-controlled neighbourhood of Damascus yesterday killed 35 people and wounded more than 20 others, Syrian state-run media said, marking one of the highest death tolls in a single attack targeting...
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP):Unveiling a long-awaited plan to combat the national scourge of opioid drug addiction, President Donald Trump called yesterday for stiffer penalties for drug traffickers, including embracing a tactic employed by some of the...
MADRID (AP):Spanish police say the man suspected of plotting an ISIS-inspired attack in Colombia appeared on their radar for hate-filled messages online toward the United States, a country where he had lived and was allegedly trying to get to.A...
NEW YORK (AP):Students from the Florida high school where 17 people were fatally shot last month expect more than one million participants in upcoming marches in Washington and elsewhere calling for gun regulations, students said yesterday.More than...
NEW YORK (AP):Worried about catching a cold or the flu on an airplane? Get a window seat, and don't leave it until the flight is over.That's what some experts have been saying for years, and it's perhaps the best advice coming out of a new attempt...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) :A self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in a Phoenix suburb in the first fatality involving a fully autonomous test vehicle, prompting the ride-hailing company yesterday to suspend all road-testing of such...
BEIJING (AP):China's ceremonial legislature appointed Premier Li Keqiang, the No. 2 leader of the ruling Communist Party, to a second five-year term yesterday and approved the appointment of a director for a new anti-corruption agency with sweeping...
MOSCOW (AP):Early results and an exit poll showed that Vladimir Putin handily won a fourth term as Russia's president yesterday, adding six years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world's largest country, as either president or prime...
WASHINGTON (AP):United States President Donald Trump yesterday took out his frustrations over the intensifying Russia investigation by lashing out at special counsel Robert Mueller, signaling a possible shift away from a strategy of cooperating with...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s presidential election was tainted today by unprecedented pressure on voters to turn out and incidents of suspected ballot box stuffing — a barely democratic exercise that will grant Vladimir Putin another...
BERLIN (AP):German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the country's trade surplus yesterday, saying the government is working to encourage domestic demand but that not all factors are under its control.United States President Donald Trump's...
MOSCOW (AP):Russian voters are gearing up for a presidential election today that Vladimir Putin is guaranteed to win.They are facing unusually intense pressure to vote, to grant him a convincing new mandate to pursue his nationalist strategy....
JOHANNESBURG (AP):The president of the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius, Africa's only female head of state, has resigned amid a financial scandal.Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Gurib-Fakim submitted her resignation in the "national interest", her lawyer...
Russia has announced that it will expel 23 British diplomats. It marks the latest development in a dispute between the two countries over a nerve agent attack on an ex-Russian spy and his daughter in the United Kingdom. Earlier this week, British...
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities said Friday that the cables suspending a pedestrian bridge were being tightened after a "stress test" when the 950-ton concrete span collapsed over traffic, killing at least six people only days after its...
CRYSTAL LAKE, Illinois (AP):A suburban gun range in Illinois that is offering free concealed-carry classes for teachers says training slots are filling up quickly.The On Target Range...
KABUL (AP):When Asadullah Poya's wife gave birth to their third child in a tiny village in rural Afghanistan, he immediately thought of Donald Trump.He had just read a Dari translation of what appears to be Trump: How to Get Rich, published in 2004...
BOGOTA (AP):Police in Colombia have arrested a Cuban man suspected of plotting to kill American diplomats in the name of the Islamic State.The suspect, Raul Gutierrez, arrived yesterday in handcuffs to a Bogota courtroom where a judge ordered him...
LONDON (AP):The United States, France, and Germany joined Britain yesterday in condemning Russia for the nerve-agent poisoning of a former spy, calling it an "assault on UK sovereignty", as the Kremlin vowed to expel British diplomats soon in...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Police in Brazil say they have arrested nine people suspected of belonging to a paramilitary militia group in one of Rio de Janeiro's most violent districts. Four of the suspects are police officers.Inspector Alexandre Herdy says...
LONDON (AP):Relations between Britain and Russia plunged yesterday to a chill not seen since the Cold War as Prime Minister Theresa May expelled 23 diplomats, severed high-level contacts and vowed both open and covert action against Kremlin meddling...
Warning that their futures are being stolen from them, tens of thousands of young people across the US walked out of school to demand action on gun violence yesterday in one of the biggest student protests since the Vietnam era.Braving snow in New...
LONDON (AP): Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralysed by disease, died early Wednesday, a University of Cambridge spokesman said. He was 76 years old. Hawking died peacefully at...
MIAMI (AP):Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for the former student charged with killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month even though attorneys for Nikolas Cruz indicated he would plead guilty if his life was...
LOXLEY, Alabama (AP):Lulled asleep by the humming of their Texas-bound charter bus following a trip to Disney World, members of a high-school band were jarred awake before dawn yesterday when the rig ran off a highway and plunged into a deep ravine....
