UNITED NATIONS (AP):The United Nations (UN) Security Council threatened new sanctions against North Korea yesterday in a strongly worded condemnation of its latest missile launch after the...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuelan Inte-rior Minister Nestor Reverol is blaming an opposition party for the killing of a 23-year-old woman amid ongoing protests in the South American country.Reverol said yesterday that Paola RamÌrez was killed on...
MOSCOW (AP): Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday banned Jehovah's Witnesses from operating anywhere in the country, accepting a request from the justice ministry that the religious organisation be considered an extremist group. The court...
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors has stopped doing business in Venezuela after authorities took control of its only factory there in what GM called an illegal judicial seizure of its assets. The plant was confiscated on Wednesday as anti-...
GRESSIER (AP):Their heads held high and chests puffed out, a group of nearly 100 Haitian men in camouflage fatigues do jumping jacks or march around an abandoned UN compound on a recent morning. But after a few drills, they seek shelter from the...
HOUSTON (AP):A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush says the nation's 41st president remains under observation at a Houston hospital after recovering from "a mild case of pneumonia".Family spokesman Jim...
ISTANBUL (AP):Turkey's electoral board yesterday rejected petitions by opposition parties to annul the outcome of a recent referendum on expanding presidential powers because of voting irregularities.The High...
CARACAS (AP):A Venezuelan teenager who was shot in the head near anti-government protests in the capital has died.Miguel Salomon is president of the Clinicas Caracas hospital. He says the boy died...
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers voted by a resounding 522 to 13 on Wednesday to back Prime Minister Theresa May's call for a snap election on June 8. Parliament will be dissolved on May 2. The result easily surpassed the two-thirds...
BEIJING (AP) — China is defending its handling of trademark applications from President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her company, saying that all such requests are handled fairly. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lu Kang was...
The CEO of United Airlines says no one will be fired over the dragging of a man off a plane including himself.CEO Oscar Munoz said yesterday that he takes full responsibility "for making...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP)Turkey's prime minister yesterday called on the opposition to respect the result of a referendum that will give sweeping new powers to the office of the president, but the main opposition party formally requested to have the vote...
ERIE, Pa. (AP)The man who randomly gunned down a Cleveland retiree and posted video of the crime on Facebook killed himself yesterday during a police chase in Pennsylvania that began when a...
On Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the "latest vile" attack on civilians in...
CLEVELAND (AP):In a rambling video, Steve Stephens said, "I snapped, I just snapped." But as the manhunt dragged on yesterday for the man accused of posting Facebook footage of himself killing a Cleveland...
ISTANBUL (AP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has finally fulfilled his long-held ambition to expand his powers after Sunday's referendum handed him the reigns of his country's governance. But...
CLEVELAND (AP):Authorities in several states were on the lookout yesterday for a man police say shot a Cleveland retiree collecting aluminum cans and then posted video of the apparently random killing on Facebook."He could be nearby. He could be far...
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP): In a trip full of Cold War symbolism, US Vice-President Mike Pence travelled to the tense zone dividing North and South Korea and warned Pyongyang that after years of testing the US and South Korea with its nuclear...
The world's oldest person died in Italy today at the age of 117, media reports say. Emma Morano was born on November 29, 1899 in the Piedmont region of Italy. She was officially the last person born in the 1800s. Morano attributed her longevity...
CHICAGO (AP): Dr David Dao was trying to return home from a California vacation with his wife when he refused to give up his seat to an airline crew member on a full United Express flight. Now his lawyer hopes the 69-year-old grandfather and...
The Afghan defence ministry says a US military strike with a weapon known as the "mother of all bombs" killed 36 IS militants and destroyed their base. The ministry says no civilians were affected by the explosion. The bomb was dropped on...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Pentagon says US forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan. Adam Stump is a Pentagon spokesman. Stump says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb,...
'WASHINGTON (AP):White House press secretary Sean Spicer said yesterday that his attempt to compare the Holocaust and Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons was "inexcusable...
MOSCOW (AP):Russia's top diplomat accused the United States yesterday of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.Giving...
WASHINGTON (AP):Almost 1,500 economists have addressed a letter to President Donald Trump and top congressional leaders stressing the importance of immigrants for economic growth.The letter...
