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French police detain 27 during raid at migrant camp

Published:Tuesday | February 6, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):French authorities say they have detained more than two dozen people during a police raid at a forest camp sheltering Vietnamese migrants hoping to get to Britain.The regional prefecture says police conducted the operation at the camp in...

Trump aide: Some immigrants 'too lazy' to sign up for DACA

Published:Tuesday | February 6, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Some immigrants may have been "too afraid" or "too lazy" to sign up for the Obama-era programme that offered protection from deportation, White House chief of staff John Kelly said yesterday as he defended President Donald Trump's...

Maldives declares state of emergency amid political standoff

Published:Monday | February 5, 2018 | 12:00 AM

MALE (AP):The Maldives government declared a 15-day state of emergency yesterday as the political crisis deepened in the Indian Ocean nation amid an increasingly bitter stand-off between the president and the Supreme Court.A surprise Supreme Court...

US begins reducing troops after victory over IS

Published:Monday | February 5, 2018 | 12:00 AM

AL-ASAD AIRBASE, (AP):The United States (US) has started to reduce the number of its troops in Iraq following Baghdad's declaration of victory over the Islamic State group last year, an Iraqi government spokesman and Western contractors said...

Samsung heir freed after appeal wins suspended jail term

Published:Monday | February 5, 2018 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP):Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong was freed yesterday after a South Korean appeals court gave him a two-and-a-half-year suspended jail sentence for corruption in connection with a scandal that toppled the country's president.The...

Talks on gov't enter final round

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP):Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats embarked Sunday on a final push for an agreement on a new German government, though negotiators appeared likely to need one more day.The effort to put together...

2 Amtrak workers killed, 116 hurt in South Carolina crash

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM

CAYCE, South Carolina (AP):An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train parked on a side track in South Carolina early Sunday, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said. It was the third deadly wreck...

North Korea to send nominal head of state to South

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PYEONGCHANG (AP):North Korea will send its nominal head of state and other senior officials to South Korea this week, Seoul officials said on Sunday, as the rivals push through with rare rapprochement steps ahead of this month's Winter Olympics in...

Police say extremist shows no remorse for shooting Africans

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM

MILAN (AP):A right-wing extremist suspected in the shooting rampage that wounded six Africans in central Italy was "lucid and determined, aware of what he had done" and exhibited no remorse for his actions, an Italian law-enforcement official said...

Memo doesn't clear Trump in probe

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Democratic and Republican lawmakers said Sunday that a GOP-produced congressional memo on FBI surveillance powers did not clear President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation, and they expressed hope that special counsel Robert...

UK’s May under pressure as Conservatives at war over Brexit

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May was under mounting pressure today to take sides in the Conservative Party’s civil war over Brexit, as a new round of talks between Britain and the European Union is set to begin. Since...

South Carolina train crash leaves 2 dead, nearly 90 hurt

Published:Sunday | February 4, 2018 | 12:00 AM

CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train near South Carolina’s capital killed two people and injured nearly 90 early today, authorities said. It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in...

Carnival expected to turn big bucks

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Revellers have started to party in Brazil where this year's Carnival festivities, to take place from February 9t to 13t, are expected to inject over $11.14 billion into the economy.Almost 11 million Brazilian travellers and 400,000 international...

South Africa's Zuma faces another no confidence vote Feb 22

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP):South Africa's parliament will vote on a motion of no confidence in embattled President Jacob Zuma on February 22, the parliamentary speaker said last Friday, in an escalation of pressure on the leader to resign after a series of...

5-year-old girl burnt in voodoo ritual; two charged

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM

EAST BRIDGEWATER (AP):Two sisters tied down and burnt a 5-year-old girl, permanently disfiguring her, in a voodoo ritual meant to rid her of a demon causing her to misbehave.The women also...

Oklahoma considers chemical castration for sex offenders

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP):A Republican lawmaker is pushing to add Oklahoma to the list of states in which so-called chemical castration is an option for certain sex offenders, albeit an option that rarely gets used.State Republican Rick West, a first-term...

More accusation accusations against American producer Harvey Weinstein

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):Actress Uma Thurman has accused embattled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of forcing himself upon her sexually and director Quentin Tarantino of making her perform a dangerous car stunt that injured her.Thurman is quoted in The New...

Judge temporarily halts deportation of Indonesian Christians

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM

HIGHLAND PARK, New Jersey (AP):A federal judge has temporarily halted deportation proceedings against Indonesian Christians who are in the United States illegally but are seeking to gain legal status.Those facing deportation include a man honoured...

Italy PM condemns drive-by shooting of Africans

Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni has condemned the drive-by shooting spree targeting African immigrants in the central Italian city of Macerata, saying "hatred and violence will not succeed in dividing us."Gentiloni said yesterday that "one thing is...

CIA defends meeting with Russian spy officials

Published:Thursday | February 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):CIA Director Mike Pompeo said yesterday there was nothing "untoward" about his meeting with top Russian spy chiefs, saying that even though Moscow remains an adversary, ignoring chances to cooperate on security issues would endanger...

Man who drove van into Muslims in London convicted of murder

Published:Thursday | February 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):A man who steeped himself in far-right, anti-Muslim ideas before driving a van into a crowd of worshippers near a north London mosque was convicted yesterday of murder and attempted murder.A jury at London's Woolwich Crown Court...

Hospital loses track of hard drive with patient data

Published:Thursday | February 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BANGOR, Maine (AP):A Maine hospital says it lost track of a hard drive containing the personal information of 660 patients.Eastern Maine Medical Center announced yesterday that it's mailing notices to patients to ensure that they take precautions to...

IAPA rejects free official advertising imposed by Bolivian government

Published:Thursday | February 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM

MIAMI, Florida:The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has expressed concern at the issuing of a recent official decree by Bolivia's President Evo Morales that requires all news media to distribute government messages free of charge, without...

IMF concludes 2017 consultation with Caribbean nation

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

On January 26, the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Barbados.Following the economic recovery in 2016, gross domestic product (GDP) growth is slowing reflecting increased pace of...

UN reviews 206 companies over links to Israeli settlements

Published:Wednesday | January 31, 2018 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA (AP) The U.N. human rights office said yesterday that 206 companies mostly Israeli and American are facing a review of their business practices involving Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.In a long-...

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