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CDC director resigns over financial conflicts

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

NEW YORK (AP):The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has resigned because of financial conflicts of interest, government officials announced yesterday.Dr Brenda Fitzgerald's complex financial investments presented...

Super blue blood moon awes and wows

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP):The moon put on a rare cosmic show yesterday: a red blue moon, super big and super bright.It's the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, or blood moon because of its...

Trump calls for unity; warns about gangs, drugs, North Korea

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

WASHINGTON (AP):Addressing a deeply divided nation, President Donald Trump summoned the country to a "new American moment" of unity in his first State of the Union, challenging Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured...

FBI deputy director leaving post ahead of planned retirement

Published:Monday | January 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of President Donald Trump's criticism who led the bureau for months last year following the firing of James Comey, is leaving his position ahead of a previously planned retirement...

IS attack on military academy in Afghan capital kills 11

Published:Monday | January 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

AFGHANISTANKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Islamic State militants attacked Afghan soldiers guarding a military academy in the capital yesterday, killing at least 11 troops and wounding 16.The attack, which began before dawn and continued well past...

Automakers face heat over tests on monkeys, humans

Published:Monday | January 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

FRANKFURT (AP):Public criticism of the German auto industry has escalated after a report that an industry-sponsored entity commissioned a study of the effects of diesel exhaust using monkeys, while another study exposed humans to low levels of one...

Country approves first female premier amid protests

Published:Monday | January 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BUCHAREST (AP):Romania's first female prime minister was sworn in Wednesday as the country's third head of government in a year amid ongoing anti-corruption protests.Viorica Dancila, 54, a European parliament lawmaker before being elected premier,...

Leaked video causes political storm

Published:Monday | January 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BEIRUT (AP):Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged calm Monday after a video emerged showing the foreign minister calling Lebanon's powerful parliament speaker a "thug" in a closed meeting.The leaked video, which emerged Sunday night, comes amid...

Romania approves first female prime minister amid protests

Published:Monday | January 29, 2018 | 12:00 AM

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP): Romania's parliament on Monday confirmed Viorica Dancila as its first female prime minister and the country's third head of government in a year. Dancila won 282-136, far more than the 233 votes she needed to lead...

'America is back' to highlight State of the Union presentation

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) :Seeking to move past the shadow of the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump is aiming to use his first State of the Union address to note the economic progress under his watch while pushing for bipartisanship with Democrats...

French government supports minister accused of rape

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):France's government is sticking by its budget minister as he fights a rape accusation.Budget Minister Gerald Darmanin is the highest-ranking French official accused of sexual misconduct since the scandals that broke in Hollywood.Darmanin...

Audio emerges of prime minister's wife raging over media story

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP):A recording of Benjamin Netanyahu's wife raging at an aide surfaced on yesterday, creating a new headache for Israel's embattled premier.Sara Netanyahu is heard complaining that a gossip column about her did not mention her...

Bus overturns in northern Brazil, killing 7

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

SAO PAULO (AP):Police say a bus overturned on a curve in northern Brazil, killing seven passengers and injuring 20.The accident occurred early yesterday near the city of Dianopolis in the state of Tocantins.Police told reporters the accident appears...

Trump to announce path to citizenship for 2 million ‘Dreamers’

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

In his State of the Union presentation tomorrow, President Donald Trump is expected to promote his new proposal for US$25 billion for a wall along the Mexican border and for a path to citizenship for nearly two million young people taken to the US...

Winter flu, Brexit put beloved UK health service on sickbed

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP) — This winter, a daily drip of grim stories from Britain’s health care system has triggered a flood of alarm. An 81-year-old woman with chest pains died while waiting four hours for an ambulance. A young woman in pain lay...

95 dead as suicide bomber strikes if Afghanistan

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP):A suicide bomber drove an ambulance into a commercial area by pretending to be carrying a patient to a hospital and then detonated his explosives at a checkpoint near the European Union consulate, killing at least 95 people...

Trump oversells economic performance

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Just last month, President Donald Trump was crowing about his chances for seeing the United States post three per cent economic growth in 2017 and scoffing at the sceptics who predicted much less.Turns out that the sceptics actually...

65 persons found in cramped bus cargo hold

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):Authorities in Mexico say they have discovered 65 Central American migrants crowded inside the cargo hold of a passenger bus in the northern city of Saltillo.The country's Immigration Institute said in a statement that the migrants...

'Spare yourself a shower' - Water shut-off looms in Cape Town

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

CAPE TOWN (AP):Long lines of South Africans collect water daily from a natural spring pipeline in an upscale suburb of Cape Town, illustrating the harsh impact of a drought that authorities say could force the closure of most taps in the country's...

Venezuela opposition rejoins talks as presidency vote looms

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP):Negotiators for Venezuela's opposition say that they will return to the negotiating table next week as international pressure mounts on President Nicolas Maduro's government over its...

84-year-old US Supreme Court justice signals intent to continue working

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): In different circumstances, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might be on a valedictory tour in her final months on the Supreme Court. But in the era of Donald Trump, the 84-year-old Ginsburg is packing her schedule and sending signals...

U.S. and U.K. joined at the hip - Trump

Published:Thursday | January 25, 2018 | 12:00 AM

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) President Donald Trump said the U.S. and U.K. "are very much joined at the hip" as he sat down with British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland."We're on the same wavelength...

Disco nights? Rocket Lab launches glinting sphere into orbit

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WELLINGTON(AP) :Look into the night sky at the right time and you might see what amounts to a giant disco ball shimmering and glinting back.The founder of the company that this week launched the first rocket into orbit from New Zealand said...

Scientists successfully clone monkeys; are humans up next?

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the same with humans.Since Dolly's birth in 1996,...

Gymnastics doctor sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LANSING, Michigan (AP):The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years under the guise of medical treatment was sentenced yesterday to 40 to 175 years in prison by a judge who proudly told him, "I just...

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