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Published:Thursday | June 8, 2017 | 12:00 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Judges in Brazil's top electoral court are in their third day of proceedings of a case that could cost President Michel Temer his job.The judgment phase of the trial was supposed to last...

Published:Thursday | June 8, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): Britain voted Thursday in an election that started out as an attempt by Prime Minister Theresa May to increase her party's majority in Parliament ahead of Brexit negotiations but was upended by terror attacks in Manchester and...

Published:Wednesday | June 7, 2017 | 12:00 AM

YANGON (AP):A military transport plane with 120 people on board went missing yesterday on a flight from southern Myanmar to Yangon, a military spokesman said. There were fears it may have crashed...

Published:Wednesday | June 7, 2017 | 12:00 AM

DUBAI (AP):Germany's Foreign Ministry says it is trying to understand the US position on the Gulf crisis, after Saudi Arabia and other nations cut ties to Qatar.US President Donald Trump said Tuesday...

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Published:Tuesday | June 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):A police officer shot and wounded a man who attacked officers with a hammer near Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday, Paris police and a police union official said.Union official Cedric...

Published:Tuesday | June 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Details emerged yesterday of the three London Bridge attackers: a Pakistan-born failed customer service clerk with links to one of Europe's most prolific hate preachers, a Moroccan pastry chef whose partner said he once went swimming...

Published:Tuesday | June 6, 2017 | 10:50 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump sided with Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries yesterday in a deepening diplomatic crisis with Qatar, appearing to endorse the accusation that the oil-rich Persian Gulf nation is funding terrorist groups....

Published:Tuesday | June 6, 2017 | 11:22 AM

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) :A woman's claim that Bill Cosby drugged and sexually abused her at a Los Angeles hotel two decades ago was bolstered by her mother and a workers' compensation lawyer yesterday on Day Two of the comedian's trial.Cosby, 79, is...

Published:Monday | June 5, 2017 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP):Jailed Venezuela opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez is urging supporters to keep demonstrating as an antigovernment protest movement that has claimed more than 60 lives enters its third month...

Published:Monday | June 5, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):British counterterrorism investigators searched homes and detained more people yesterday in the London attack investigation as an intense political firestorm developed over Prime Minister Theresa May's role in reducing police...

Published:Monday | June 5, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ORLANDO, Fl (AP):A disgruntled former employee opened fire yesterday inside a Florida awning factory, killing five workers before killing himself, authorities said.Orange County Sheriff Jerry...

Published:Monday | June 5, 2017 | 12:00 AM

NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP):Accompanied into the courthouse by a member of the TV family who cemented his nice-guy image as America's Dad, Bill Cosby went on trial yesterday on sexual...

Published:Monday | June 5, 2017 | 1:42 PM

British counterterrorism investigators searched two homes today and detained a number of people in the probe into a van and knife attack in the heart of London that left seven people dead. Dozens were injured, many of them critically, in the attack...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby doesn't plan to testify when he goes on trial Monday on sexual assault charges, but the rambling, remarkable testimony he gave in the accuser's lawsuit could still prove pivotal. The deposition from a...

Published:Saturday | June 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON:Social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, could be forced to offer British young people the right to delete information about them if Theresa May is re-elected prime minister on June 8.Users under 18 will be able to request the...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Cricket rivals India and Pakistan have held a minute's silence for the victims of the London Bridge attacks amid enhanced security at the Edgbaston ground in Birmingham, England.The West Midlands venue was hosting a game on Sunday as part of the two...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Britain suffered its third major extremist attack in three months on Saturday night when three men using a van and knives killed seven people in a busy area of London. This is how the attack at London...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

FALLUJAH (AP):Even as Iraqi forces in Mosul close in on the last pockets of urban territory still held by the Islamic State (IS) group, residents of Fallujah in Iraq's Sunni heartland are still...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):Voters in Mexico's most populous state on Sunday could hand the ruling party a much-needed boost ahead of next year's presidential elections or a potentially devastating...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):British police arrested a dozen people on Sunday in a widening terrorism investigation after attackers used a van and large knives to kill seven people in London, and the county's...

Published:Sunday | June 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The mayor of the District of Columbia says she'll continue to follow the guidelines of the Paris climate change accord despite President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States...

Published:Saturday | June 3, 2017 | 1:36 PM

The Organisation of American States (OAS) has failed to pass either of two resolutions on Venezuela as member countries fail to agree on the way forward.Last Wednesday, representatives of 33 of the 34 active members of the OAS met to discuss the...

Published:Saturday | June 3, 2017 | 1:45 PM

AMMAN (AP):A cholera outbreak is spreading quickly in war-ravaged Yemen, with an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 new cases every day, the United Nation's children's agency said yesterday.Geert Cappelaere, the Middle East director of UNICEF, said in an...

Published:Saturday | June 3, 2017 | 1:17 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):The special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia's government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his...

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