TEHRAN, Iran (AP):Iranian news agencies are quoting provincial officials as saying that 21 miners died in a coal mine explosion earlier in the day in the country's north.The explosion hit a coal mine in the province of...
ATHENS, Greece (AP):A Greek court has turned down a second Turkish extradition bid for three of eight Turkish servicemen who fled by helicopter to Greece after a failed military coup in Turkey last year....
VALLETTA (AP):Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat yesterday called elections for June 3, a year early, to test his popularity following allegations that his wife owns an offshore company in Panama....
WASHINGTON (AP):Lawmakers yesterday unveiled a huge US$1-trillion-plus spending bill that would fund most government operations through September, but would deny President Donald Trump money for a border wall and rejects his proposed cuts to popular...
CARACAS (AP):Venezuelans took to the streets in dueling anti- and pro-government demonstrations as an intensifying protest movement opposing President Nicol·s Maduro enters its second month.Opposition leaders...
TORONTO (AP):Canada's defence minister has apologis ed in Parliament for claiming to have been the "architect" of the country's largest battle in Afghanistan.Harjit Sajjan repeatedly said sorry...
ST LOUIS (AP):Sixteen months after a rare Christmas week flood devastated towns along the Meramec River near St Louis, sandbags were rapidly piling up again Monday as the small but flood-prone river...
New Hamas programsoftens language, butsome goals remainGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) The Islamic militant Hamas yesterday unveiled what had been billed as a new, seemingly more pragmatic political program aimed at ending the group's international...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP):German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, where she is expected to press royals on a number of sensitive issues, including taking in...
BEIRUT (AP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday his country may take further action against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, as US-backed forces in Syria closed in on the...
WASHINGTON (AP):After more than three months in office without passing any major legislation, President Donald Trump faces a week with a deadline to avert a government shutdown and the possibility of progress on health care.Trump has spent his first...
Adoption agencies face strains amid declineNEW YORK (AP):For legions of Americans craving a chance to adopt children, a confluence of daunting trends makes this an especially distressing time.The overall number of US adoptions have dropped...
Never again! Macronhonours Holocaust victimsPARIS (AP):Amid worries about rising nationalism, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron paid homage Sunday to the tens of thousands of French Jews killed in the Holocaust with a sombre, simple...
Pope Francis has called for international mediation to ease rising tensions between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear activity. According to the BBC, the pontiff suggested that Norway, for example, was "always ready to help...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Donald Trump said in a television interview to be aired Sunday that he believes China's president has been putting pressure on North Korea as it pursues its missile and nuclear weapons programs. In an...
TIRANA (AP):The Albanian Parliament yesterday failed for the third time to elect the country's new president because no candidates had been nominated.The governing left-wing coalition didn't put up...
CHICAGO (AP):The passenger who was dragged off a flight after refusing to give up his seat settled with United for an undisclosed sum on Thursday in an apparent attempt by the airline to put the fiasco behind it as quickly as possible.David Dao's...
BERLIN (AP):No bones? No problem! Scientists say that they have figured out a way to extract tiny traces of ancient human DNA from dirt in caves that lack skeletal remains.The technique could be...
The Kentucky doctor dragged off a United Airlines flight from Chicago earlier this month has received a financial settlement from the airline. Lawyers for 69 year old Dr David Dao say a condition of the payout is that the amount remains...
DALLAS (AP): United Airlines says it will raise the limit — to $10,000 – on payments to customers who give up seats on oversold flights and will increase training for employees as it deals with fallout from the video of a passenger...
BUDAPEST (AP):The European Court of Human Rights has awarded €3 million (US$3.3 million) in damages to a small Hungarian Methodist church stripped of its recognised status in 2012.Along with...
WASHINGTON (AP):Researchers are creating an artificial womb to improve care for extremely premature babies and remarkable animal testing suggests the first-of-its-kind watery incubation so closely mimics mom that it just might work.Today, premature...
BUENOS AIRES (AP):An Argentine human rights group says DNA tests have determined the identity of another person taken from parents by the country's former dictatorship, bringing the number of such cases...
BEIRUT (AP):An airstrike killed eight family members, five of them children, as they fled fighting between US-allied Syrian forces and Islamic State militants yesterday, according to local...
