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Tillerson talks tough on Russia, vows US support for Ukraine

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

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russia on Sunday that it must take the first steps to reduce tensions in eastern Ukraine and that American and European sanctions would remain in place until Moscow reversed course in...

Hundreds of thousands rally for LGBTI rights

Published:Saturday | July 8, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MADRID (AP):Hundreds of thousands of people marched yesterday in a global gay pride demonstration in Madrid under tight security, and a parade of 52 floats took the festivities through the Spanish capital and into the night.The rally was led by all...

G-20 shut Trump out on climate, strike deal on trade

Published:Saturday | July 8, 2017 | 12:00 AM

HAMBURG (AP):World powers lined up against United States President Donald Trump on climate change, reaffirming their support for international efforts to fight global warming.The Group of 20 summit, which ended yesterday in Hamburg, also showed the...

Jailed opposition leader given house arrest

Published:Saturday | July 8, 2017 | 3:22 PM

CARACAS (AP):Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was released from prison and placed under house arrest yesterday after more than three years in military lock-up, in a shock reversal that fuelled hopes for a broader amnesty for dozens of jailed...

S. Korea fires missiles in drills amid standoff with North

Published:Thursday | July 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL (AP):South Korean jets and navy ships fired a barrage of guided missiles into the ocean during drills yesterday, a display of military power two days after North Korea test-launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).The North...

Jellyfish invasion stirs debate over Egypt's Suez Canal

Published:Thursday | July 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM

CAIRO (AP):Swarms of jellyfish have descended on Egypt's northern coast, keeping vacationers out of the water and stirring debate over a recent expansion of the Suez Canal.The nomad jellyfish, Rhopilema...

Trump welcomed by cheering, flag-waving supporters in Warsaw

Published:Thursday | July 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WARSAW (AP):Donald Trump was welcomed Thursday by an enthusiastic crowd in Warsaw that chanted his name and waved US and Polish flags when he delivered an address just as Poland's government had...

One girl's plight epitomises Rohingya struggle

Published:Wednesday | July 5, 2017 | 12:00 AM

DAR PAING (AP):Ever since she was born in a squalid displaced camp for Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya minority that authorities won't let anyone leave, Rosmaida Bibi has struggled to do something most of the...

Kim vows North Korea's nukes are not on negotiation table

Published:Wednesday | July 5, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL (AP):North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed yesterday his nation will "demonstrate its mettle to the US" and never put its weapons programmes up for negotiations, a day after successfully testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile.The...

Second cyberattack foiled after police raid

Published:Wednesday | July 5, 2017 | 12:00 AM

KIEV (AP):Ukrainian authorities have avoided a second cyberattack, the country's interior minister said yesterday, an announcement that suggests the effort to wreak electronic havoc across the country is...

Trump expresses frustration with China's support for North Korea

Published:Wednesday | July 5, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump expressed frustration with China yesterday for failing to do more to cut off support to North Korea and exert pressure to curb its nuclear...

British baby at end of life support draws in pope, Trump

Published:Tuesday | July 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):A terminally ill British child has attracted the attention of both the president of the United States and the Pope. More than £1.3 million ($1.68 million) has been raised to help 11-...

Ex-Mexican governor accepts extradition from Guatemala

Published:Tuesday | July 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

GUATEMALA CITY (AP):A former Mexican governor captured in Guatemala has agreed to his extradition for a second time in two weeks, but it was not immediately clear how soon that could happen.Javier Duarte was...

North Korea claims it tested first intercontinental missile

Published:Tuesday | July 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP):North Korea on Tuesday claimed it successfully test-launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a potential game-changing development in what may be the world's most dangerous nuclear stand-off, and, if true...

Doctor had no idea why he was hospital shooter's target

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

A doctor who appears to have been the intended target of a former physician who started shooting at a New York hospital, killing one person and injuring six, said he has no idea why he would...

Trump criticised by media over tweeted video

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

In his latest jab at the media, President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted a mock video that shows him pummeling a man in a business suit - his face obscured by the CNN logo - outside a wrestling ring.It was not immediately clear who produced the...

Health insurance CFO gets one year for embezzling US$632,000

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The former chief financial officer of a Washington state health insurance company that serves people on Medicare has been sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling $632,000.Federal...

Car bomb kills 8 as Syria says it foiled wider attack

Published:Sunday | July 2, 2017 | 12:00 AM

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A suicide car bomb killed at least eight people in a rare attack in the heart of Syria's capital on Sunday, as authorities said they foiled a wider assault by intercepting two other explosives-laden vehicles. The attack...

Gunman kills one, hurts six at NYC hospital before killing self

Published:Friday | June 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor forced from a New York hospital because of sexual harassment accusations returned Friday with an assault rifle hidden under a lab coat and shot seven people, killing one woman in an attack that left several doctors...

Greta Van Susteren out as MSNBC host

Published:Thursday | June 29, 2017 | 12:00 AM

 NEW YORK (AP):Greta Van Susteren has lost her nightly show on MSNBC, not quite six months after she started at the network.Van Susteren tweeted yesterday afternoon that "I am out at MSNBC." The network confirmed it, and said she will...

Trump to meet Putin at G-20 summit

Published:Thursday | June 29, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump will convene a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit of industrial and emerging-market nations in Germany next week, the White House said...

Less chaos expected as new travel ban takes effect

Published:Thursday | June 29, 2017 | 3:37 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban took effect yesterday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court...

Global cyberattack may have aimed for havoc, not extortion

Published:Thursday | June 29, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):The cyberattack that has locked up computers around the world while demanding a ransom may not be an extortion attempt after all, but an effort to create havoc in Ukraine, security...

Top Vatican cardinal charged with multiple sexual assault offences

Published:Thursday | June 29, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SYDNEY (AP): Australian police charged a top Vatican cardinal on Thursday with multiple counts of "historical" sexual assault offences, a stunning decision certain to rock the highest levels of the Holy See. Cardinal George Pell, Pope...

Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol

Published:Wednesday | June 28, 2017 | 1:28 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP):A man yelled "Freedom!" as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument early yesterday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma's monument at its state Capitol,...

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