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Security footage reveals methodical gunman in casino attack

Published:Saturday | June 3, 2017 | 1:25 PM

MANILA (AP):The security footage shows the man responsible for one of the Philippine capital's deadliest attacks in years casually exiting a taxi just after midnight and walking calmly into a vast entertainment and gambling complex like any other...

World leaders reaffirm commitment to climate change fight, US pulls out of Paris accord

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP): World leaders pledged Thursday to keep up the fight against global warming as US President Donald Trump announced he was pulling out of the Paris climate accord. The European Union's top climate change official said Trump'...

Russian hacker can be extradited to US or Russia

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PRAGUE (AP):A Czech court ruled yesterday that a Russian man who faces charges of hacking computers at American companies can be extradited either to the United States or Russia and the suspect...

New leader orders probe of US missile launchers

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL (AP):Calling it a "very shocking" incident, South Korea's new president yesterday demanded an investigation into why his office wasn't told by defence officials about the arrival of several...

Five police killed in city suburb

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):Five police officers were killed early yesterday in a huge Mexico City suburb when they came under attack responding to a call, the city said in a statement.The officers were killed after arriving in...

UN warns Yemen conflict is leading to country's collapse

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 2:20 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP):The United Nations (UN) humanitarian chief warned yesterday that civil war is causing Yemen to spiral towards total collapse with the threat of famine increasing and over 55,000 suspected cholera cases since late April.Stephen O'...

North Korea missile launch may be testing rivals, not technology

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SEOUL (AP): North Korea’s latest missile test yesterday may have less to do with perfecting its weapons technology than with showing US and South Korean forces in the region that it can strike them at will. South Korean and Japanese...

Trump hails the fallen and their families at Arlington

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP): United States President Donald Trump expressed his nation’s “boundless and undying” gratitude yesterday to Americans who have fallen in battle and to the families they left behind, hailing as heroes the...

Federal police worried about new justice minister

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SAO PAULO (AP): The union representing Brazil’s federal police investigators expressed concerns yesterday about how probes into government corruption will be handled by a personal friend of President Michel Temer who has been named the...

Cops seek clues in concert bomber's suitcase

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): Police in Manchester, England issued a picture of the arena suicide bomber holding a blue suitcase and asked anyone who might have seen him with it before the attack to call a confidential hotline. Counterterrorism squads are trying to...

Police in Germany foil suicide attack by asylum seeker

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2017 | 1:08 PM

German police have arrested a teenage asylum seeker suspected of planning a suicide attack in the capital Berlin. Interior Minister Karl-Heinz Schröter announced that the 17 year old suspect was arrested in the Uckermark district. But...

Strong winds, thunderstorms hit Moscow, killing 11 people

Published:Monday | May 29, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP):Thunderstorms and strong winds buffeted Moscow and its surrounding areas yesterday, killing 11 people and injuring dozens, Russian officials said.The city's health department said...

Soldier from Georgia killed when vehicle rolls over in Syria

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ATLANTA (AP) U.S. military officials say a soldier from Georgia has been killed in a vehicle crash in Syria.The Department of Defence on Saturday said 22-year-old Spc. Etienne J. Murphy...

Airstrikes kill 17 in Syria near de-facto IS capital, Raqqa

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BEIRUT (AP):Syrian opposition activist groups say that airstrikes have killed at least 17 people just south of the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group.The...

Supreme Court travel ban case could test Trump's reach

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The Supreme Court may soon decide how courts are supposed to view presidential power in the age of Donald Trump.The administration has promised a high court appeal of a ruling...

Kushner's Russia ties questioned as Trump cites media 'lies'

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Congressional Democrats on Sunday demanded to hear directly from top White House adviser Jared Kushner over allegations of proposed secret back-channel communications with...

Trump considering a White House staff overhaul

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 4:13 PM

President Donald Trump is considering overhauling his White House staff and bringing back top campaign strategists.Trump has been frustrated by what he views as his team's inability to contain the burgeoning crisis involving alleged Russian meddling...

Israeli government meeting near Jerusalem site angers Palestinians

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP):The Palestinians sharply condemned Israel on Sunday for holding a government meeting near a sensitive Jerusalem holy site, which is at the core of their conflict.Prime Minister...

Norway demands return of funds from Palestinian Authority

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

HELSINKI (AP):Norway is demanding that the Palestinian Authority reimburse it for funds donated to a women's centre on the West Bank because the centre was named after a female militant who...

International cybercriminals sentenced

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP):Three Nigerian nationals have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a large-scale international fraud network.Acting US Attorney Harold Brittain, in a news release Friday, said...

Lawyers seek release of man as US seeks country to take him

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BOSTON (AP):Lawyers in Massachusetts are seeking the release of a man they say is being unlawfully detained by federal immigration officials while they try to find a country to deport him to...

Tampa International Airport grows with $2 billion expansion

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

TAMPA, Florida (AP):By the end of 2026, the chairman of the Tampa International Airport wants it to function as its own little city.By then, airport officials would have spent more than $2 billion...

Sri Lanka finds more bodies as mudslide deaths reach 151

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP):Sri Lankan rescuers on Sunday pulled out more bodies that were buried by enormous mudslides as the death toll in the disaster climbed to 151, with 111 others missing.Although the weather has cleared, more rains are forecast...

Trump eyes White House overhaul, outside lawyers and PR team

Published:Sunday | May 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is considering overhauling his White House staff and bringing back top campaign strategists, frustrated by what he views as his team's inability to contain the burgeoning crisis involving alleged...

BA outage creates London travel chaos

Published:Saturday | May 27, 2017 | 3:04 PM

LONDON (AP):British Airways (BA) cancelled all flights from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports yesterday as a global IT failure upended the travel plans of tens of thousands of people on a busy UK holiday weekend.The airline said it was...

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