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Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen kills 11 civilians

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SANAA (AP):An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition battling Yemeni rebels struck a vehicle packed with fleeing civilians yesterday, killing at least 11 people, Yemeni security officials said.The officials said the toll...

Let Obamacare fail, Trump says after GOP plan collapses

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump declared yesterday he's going to "let Obamacare fail" after the Republicans' effort to rewrite the 2010 health care overhaul imploded in Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed a vote on a...

Court jails six human-rights activists pending trial

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ISTANBUL (AP):A Turkish court yesterday jailed Amnesty International's Turkey director and five other human rights activists pending trial for allegedly aiding an armed terror group making them...

Macron seeks new Mideast peace talks at Netanyahu meeting

Published:Sunday | July 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP) -- French President Emmanuel Macron today appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to create two independent states. Macron warned, however, that continued Jewish settlement...

Venezuelan opposition hopes for big turnout in protest vote

Published:Sunday | July 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's opposition called for a massive turnout today in a symbolic rejection of President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution, a proposal that's escalating tensions in a nation stricken by...

Store bankruptcy leaves brides in the lurch

Published:Saturday | July 15, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP):Talk about adding to the stress of planning a wedding.Dress retailer Alfred Angelo Bridal filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in Florida last Friday. The dressmaker, which has 60 stores nationwide and sells at 1,...

Opposite greetings for president at Open

Published:Saturday | July 15, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey (AP):Dozens of President Donald Trump's supporters and critics yesterday waved flags and carted around banners near the New Jersey golf club where the president is staying during the US Women's Open.Trump was greeted by cheers...

Massive march commemorates failed coup one year ago

Published:Saturday | July 15, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ISTANBUL (AP):Waving large, red Turkish flags, tens of thousands of persons joined a national unity march in Istanbul yesterday, converging at the iconic July 15 Martyrs' Bridge, to mark the anniversary of the failed military coup attempt, where 250...

No gays in Chechnya - Kadyrov

Published:Saturday | July 15, 2017 | 2:32 PM

MOSCOW (AP):Chechnya's leader has harshly denounced claims that his southern Russian republic has tortured and even killed gay men, denying that there even are any homosexual men in his region.Kremlin-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has...

Protesters in Paris rally against Israeli PM's visit

Published:Saturday | July 15, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Paris (AP):Protesters in the French capital have criticised President Emmanuel Macron for inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Paris, condemning the Israeli settlement policy and the blockade of Gaza.Olivia Zemor, president of the...

Extremists briefly kidnap top government official in Kenya

Published:Thursday | July 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM

NAIROBI (AP):Suspected al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab extremists briefly took hostage a top Kenya government official in the country's volatile southeast, an official said yesterday. It was the...

US calls for the release of Liu Xiaobo's wife

Published:Thursday | July 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SHENYANG (AP):The United States is calling on China's government to release the wife of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo from house arrest following his death yesterday in the northeastern city of Shenyang. He had been battling liver cancer....

International Briefs

Published:Thursday | July 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):President Donald Trump was captured complimenting the French president's wife's appearance in a video posted by the French government's Facebook account.The footage shows...

Heatwave closes Acropolis, ancient sites

Published:Wednesday | July 12, 2017 | 12:00 AM

GREECE,ATHENS, (AP) Greek authorities closed the ancient Acropolis in Athens to visitors for several hours yesterday along with other popular archaeological sites around the country due to a heatwave.The...

Once-loyal prosecutor emerges as opposition hero

Published:Wednesday | July 12, 2017 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP):Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro who have taken to the streets day after day in Venezuela now find themselves rallying in support of an unexpected hero: the chief prosecutor who helped throw many of them into jail.Until recently,...

Conservatives wary of Senate health-care bill

Published:Wednesday | July 12, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's ready to unwrap his latest bill repealing much of President Barack Obama's health-care law, with wary conservatives warning yesterday that...

Deputy President slams corruption

Published:Wednesday | July 12, 2017 | 12:00 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP):South Africa's deputy president yesterday denounced government corruption in what was seen as a rebuke to President Jacob Zuma, who has faced calls for his resignation because of scandals and graft...

FBI: Explosion not being called act of domestic terrorism

Published:Tuesday | July 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BIXBY, Oklahoma. (AP):Federal authorities said yesterday that they are no longer investigating a pipe bomb explosion that damaged a north-east Oklahoma Air Force recruiting station as a possible act of domestic terrorism, adding that the blast could...

Beachgoers form human chain to rescue family in water

Published:Tuesday | July 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Florida (AP):Strangers on a Florida beach formed an 80-person human chain to help rescue members of a family who had been caught in a riptide and pulled too far from shore, but...

GOP Senate leader charts plan for moving on new health bill

Published:Tuesday | July 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Republicans will introduce their reworked health care bill tomorrow and begin trying to muscle it through the Senate next week, the chamber's GOP leader said yesterday as the...

UK court rehears Charlie Gard case in light of new evidence

Published:Monday | July 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):A British court yesterday gave the parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard a chance to present fresh evidence that their terminally ill son should receive experimental treatment....

EU parliament threatens veto on Brexit over citizens' rights

Published:Monday | July 10, 2017 | 9:55 AM

BRUSSELS (AP):The European Parliament yesterday set itself on a collision course with Britain, making a damning assessment of British proposals on EU citizens' rights after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.The legislature indicated it...

Catholic Church: Mexicans can't feel safe anywhere

Published:Monday | July 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):Mexico's Roman Catholic Church says Mexicans can't feel safe anywhere as homicides rise throughout the country.The statement by the Mexican Council of Bishops came on the same day...

PM congratulates troops in Mosul; fight goes on

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MOSUL, Iraq (AP):Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi congratulated Iraqi troops yesterday in the streets of Mosul for driving Islamic State militants out of most of the city. But airstrikes and sniper fire continued amid the revelry, and the extremists...

South Sudan marks grim 6th independence anniversary

Published:Sunday | July 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM

JUBA, South Sudan (AP):For the second year in a row, the world's youngest nation will not have any official celebrations to mark the anniversary of its birth because of the widespread suffering...

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