US President Donald Trump has urged Muslim countries to take the lead in combating radicalisation during a major speech in Saudi Arabia. "Drive them out of this earth," the BBC said he told regional leaders in Riyadh as part of his first...
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel - far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria, according to...
A round-up of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, international headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media...
The heads of two meat-packing companies have testified that since 2010 Brazilian President Michel Temer has taken millions of dollars in bribes. The plea-bargain testimonies were released by the Brazilian Supreme Court. If confirmed, the accusations...
The New York Times is reporting that US President Donald Trump told Russian officials that firing FBI director James Comey eased great pressure on him. Citing a document summarising the meeting in the Oval Office last week, the New York Times said...
NEW YORK (AP):A man who appeared intoxicated drove his car the wrong way up a Times Square street yesterday and ploughed into pedestrians on the sidewalk, killing one and injuring about...
1 in 6 newly-wed spouses are of different race or ethnicityWASHINGTON (AP):A new study says that 1 in 6 people who married in 2015 wed someone of a difference race or ethnicity, the highest proportion in American history.The figures released...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday at the appointment of a special counsel to investigate allegations that his campaign collaborated with Russia to sway the 2016 election, tweeting that it is "the single greatest witch-hunt...
NICOSIA (AP):Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday mocked US news reports suggesting President Donald Trump inappropriately shared sensitive intelligence with him about terror threats...
NEW YORK (AP): A man who appeared intoxicated drove his car the wrong way up a Times Square street Thursday and plowed into pedestrians on the sidewalk, killing one and injuring about 20 others, authorities...
WASHINGTON (AP):Pressing for answers to mushrooming questions, con-gressional Democrats demanded an immediate investigation into President Donald Trump's dealings with now-fired FBI...
The Senate intelligence committee wants former FBI Director James Comey to appear before the panel in both open and closed sessions.The committee said yesterday that it was also asking acting FBI Director...
LIMA (AP):Billboards advertising glamorous apartments and other luxury items loom high above impoverished neighbourhoods on the highway leading to Peru's Pacific coast and the South American country's wealthy beach communities.As cars zoom by on...
SAN JUAN (AP):Puerto Rico nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera was freed from house arrest yesterday after decades in custody in a case that transformed him into a martyr for his supporters but had outraged those...
WASHINGTON (AP):The White House yesterday defended President Donald Trump's disclosure of classified information to senior Russian officials as "wholly appropriate," as officials tried to beat back criticism from fellow Republicans and concerns from...
BEIRUT (AP):Syria yesterday rejected United States (US) accusations that it carried out mass killings at a prison near Damascus and then burned the victims' bodies in a crematorium, describing...
CARACAS (AP):In a stuffy, second-floor store room, a volunteer sorts through boxes of imported medicines and arranges them one by one on metallic shelves in alphabetical order. There's Euthyrox for...
Former PM resigns as party leader after election defeatNASSAU, Bahamas (CMC):Former Prime Minister Perry Christie has resigned as leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) with immediate effect.Christie made the announcement late Monday in an...
BERLIN (AP):French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged yesterday to work closely together to draw up a "road map" of reforms for the European Union, saying that they're both prepared even to implement treaty changes...
NEW YORK (AP):The latest on the global extortion cyberattack that hit dozens of countries:Investigators looking to catch the perpetrators of the global "ransomware" attack will be looking for digital...
NEW YORK (AP):A law enforcement official says investigators believe that additional companies in the United States have been affected by the global "ransomware" software cyberattack but have not yet come...
JERUSALEM (AP):A diplomatic spat yesterday erupted between United States and Israeli officials just days before a planned visit by US President Donald Trump after an American representative questioned...
Trinidad & Tobago: The Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) says it has a plans to pay back the government billions of dollars spent in bailing out the financially troubled regional insurance giant.Finance Minister Colm Imbert told Parliament during the mid-year...
Just five days after South Korea elected a president who expressed a desire to reach out to North Korea, Pyongyang sent a challenge to its rival's new leader on Sunday by test-firing a...
The cyberattack that spread malicious software around the world, shutting down networks at hospitals, banks and government agencies, was thwarted by a young British researcher and an inexpensive domain registration, with help from another 20-...
