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United faces public-relations fiasco over dragged passenger

Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2017 | 4:17 PM

United is getting pummelled on late-night TV. Online, jokers are proposing new corporate slogans such as "We'll drag you all over the world" and "We have red eye and black eye flights available". On Wall Street, the airline briefly lost nearly $1...

Spicer says even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons

Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2017 | 4:47 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said yesterday that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" in a clumsy comparison to Syria that drew instant rebuke from Jewish groups and critics who noted that it ignored...

North Korea decries US carrier dispatch as parliament meets

Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2017 | 5:13 PM

PYONGYANG (AP):North Korea's parliament convened yesterday amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula, with the United States and South Korea conducting their biggest-ever military exercises and the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier heading to...

Executions in China said to outpace world despite decline

Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2017 | 5:31 PM

BEIJING (AP):China's use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and still outpaces the rest of the world combined, even after the nation's execution rate fell sharply over the past decade, human rights activists said yesterday.Amnesty...

Revised UN resolution on Syria attack circulated

Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2017 | 6:11 PM

Britain, France and the United States have circulated a revised UN draft resolution that would condemn the reported use of chemical weapons in northern Syria and demand that all parties provide speedy access to investigators to the sites.Britain's...

United Airlines CEO apologises after passenger dragged off overbooked flight

Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The CEO of United Airlines has apologised what he said is the truly horrific removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight. Oscar Munoz said he continues to be disturbed by the incident, during which a passenger was forcibly dragged, screaming,...

G-7 ministers reject British call for sanctions on Russia

Published:Tuesday | April 11, 2017 | 11:46 AM

G-7 nations have failed to agree on a proposal by Britain for sanctions against Russia in the wake of a deadly chemical attack they say was carried out by Moscow's ally, Syria. Italy's foreign minister said the group did not want to blame...

Official: Russia knew Syrian chemical attack was coming

Published:Monday | April 10, 2017 | 4:45 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):The United States has concluded Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week, a senior US official said yesterday.The official said a drone operated by Russians was flying over a hospital as victims of the...

Video of passenger getting dragged off flight sparks uproar

Published:Monday | April 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Video of passenger getting dragged off flight sparks uproarCHICAGO (AP):Video Footage of police officers dragging a passenger from an overbooked United Airlines flight sparked uproar yesterday on social media, and a spokesman for the airline...

New York lawmakers approve free college tuition for middle-class

Published:Monday | April 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP): New York is set to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students. The tuition initiative is part of a new state budget approved Sunday by the state Senate, a day after the Assembly approved it....

Outrage after passenger grabbed and dragged off overbooked United Airlines flight

Published:Monday | April 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

CHICAGO (AP): A man says a fellow passenger who was dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight protested to airline employees that he was a doctor who needed to see patients in the morning. Passenger Tyler Bridges of Kentucky says that's...

Famed NYC bakery's immigrant workers defy Trump

Published:Sunday | April 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM- AP

Immigrant workers at a famed New York bakery who are threatened with being fired if they don't produce legal work papers defied the government outside President Donald Trump's Manhattan home on Saturday.Thirty...

Palm Sunday church bombings in Egypt kill 43

Published:Sunday | April 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM- AP

Bombs exploded at two Coptic churches in different cities in northern Egypt as worshippers were celebrating Palm Sunday, killing at least 43 people and wounding about 100 in an assault claimed by the...

Syrian refugees see glimmer of hope in Trump's policy shift

Published:Sunday | April 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM- AP

For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent US strike was a rare moment when the world turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again....

The Latest: US official condemns 'barbaric attacks' in Egypt

Published:Sunday | April 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM

CAIRO (AP) -- The Latest on the bombing of two churches in Egypt (all times local): 9:45 p.m. The U.S. State Department is condemning in the strongest terms what it calls the "barbaric attacks" on Christian places of worship in Egypt....

Trump advisers: US seeks to fight IS and oust Syria's Assad

Published:Sunday | April 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's national security adviser on Sunday left open the possibility of additional U.S. military action against Syria following last week's missile strike but indicated that the United States was not...

Church bombings in Egypt kill 37, wound dozens

Published:Sunday | April 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM

TANTA, Egypt (AP) -- Bombs tore through two Egyptian churches in different cities as worshippers were marking Palm Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding around 100 in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group. In the first, attack, a...

Warplanes strike town hit by chemical attack

Published:Saturday | April 8, 2017 | 1:10 PM

BEIRUT (AP):Warplanes yesterday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier last week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory United States missile strike on a Syrian airbase would only be "cosmetic" if greater...

Venezuelans pour into Caracas streets in anti-Maduro protest

Published:Saturday | April 8, 2017 | 1:21 PM

CARACAS (AP):Venezuela's government responded with light armoured vehicles and tear gas yesterday as opponents of President Nicolas Maduro poured into the streets of Caracas in a weeklong protest movement that shows little sign of losing steam.The...

Building collapse leaves 5 dead

Published:Saturday | April 8, 2017 | 1:28 PM

WARSAW (AP):A pre-World War II apartment house collapsed yesterday in south western Poland, leaving five people dead, four injured and one missing.Scores of firefighters with dogs were searching the rubble of the building.A regional spokesman for...

Venezuela opposition leader gets 15-year ban from running for office

Published:Saturday | April 8, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Leading Venezuelan opposition figure, Henrique Capriles, has been banned from seeking public office for 15 years. The ban comes after a week of several opposition groups staged a series of protests in the capital Caracas. Capriles has been leading...

Russia freezes communications with US in Syria

Published:Friday | April 7, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP): Russia reacted to US military strikes on its ally Syria Friday by cutting a hotline intended to prevent mid-air incidents, a response that demonstrates Moscow's readiness to defy Washington and could even put the two nuclear...

UN trafficking expert to visit Cuba for first time in 10 years

Published:Thursday | April 6, 2017 | 4:49 PM

UN trafficking expert to visit Cuba for first time in 10 yearsHAVANA (AP):The UN is sending an independent expert to Cuba for the first time in a decade to evaluate the island's human trafficking situation.Special Rapporteur Maria Grazia...

Syria's Assad faces mounting pressure after chemical attack

Published:Thursday | April 6, 2017 | 1:54 PM

BEIRUT (AP):President Bashar Assad's government came under mounting international pressure yesterday after a chemical attack in northern Syria, with even key ally Russia saying its support is not unconditional.Turkey, meanwhile, said samples from...

US strike kills three al-Qaida fighters

Published:Thursday | April 6, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SANAA (AP):Yemeni tribal and security officials say a suspected US airstrike has killed three al-Qaida operatives, including the brother of the Yemeni affiliate's late leader.They say yesterday's airstrike in the...

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