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IS claims responsibility for London attack

Published:Thursday | March 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into pedestrians on one of London's famous bridges and then stabbed a police officer to death at Britain's Parliament. In a...

Italian train derails in Switzerland, 7 people injured

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

GENEVA (AP):An Italian train derailed in the central Swiss city of Lucerne yesterday and one carriage tipped over, injuring seven people on board.The train from Milan in northern Italy to the northwestern Swiss city of Basel derailed shortly before...

GOP lawmaker : Trump communications may have been 'monitored'

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said yesterday that the communications of Trump transition officials possibly including President Donald Trump himself may have been "...

New idea shakes up dinosaur family tree for T. Rex and pals

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Tyrannosaurus Rex and his buddies could be on the move, as a new study proposes a massive shake-up of the dinosaur family tree.Scientists, who took a deeper look at dinosaur...

Lawyers ask court to move quickly on travel ban appeal

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

RICHMOND, Virginia (AP):Donald Trump's administration is asking a US court to quickly hear its appeal of a ruling that blocked the president's revised travel ban.Lawyers for the president filed a...

UPDATE: Four dead, 20 injured in attack near British Parliament

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage at the heart of Britain's seat of power Wednesday, mowing down pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge before stabbing an armed police officer to death inside the gates of...

British Parliament on lockdown, officer stabbed; report of car rampage

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): Britain's Parliament was locked down Wednesday after an attacker stabbed an officer and was then shot by police, and witnesses said a vehicle struck several people on the nearby Westminster Bridge. London police said they were...

Daily hunt for water affects millions of Africans

Published:Tuesday | March 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP):More than five million people in South Sudan do not have access to safe, clean water, compounding the country's problems of famine and civil war, according to UNICEF. Even those South Sudanese...

Reactions to US ban of laptops on planes - Governments toeing the line

Published:Tuesday | March 21, 2017 | 3:26 PM

CAIRO (AP):The latest developments related to the US government's move to bar passengers in eight Muslim-majority countries from bringing laptops and other electronics on-board direct flights to the United States:Jordan's national carrier says it...

Muslim advocacy group seeks broader travel-ban injunction

Published:Tuesday | March 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ALEXANDRIA, Va (AP):A federal judge in Virginia is weighing a request from a Muslim civil rights group for an even broader injunction against President Donald Trump's proposed travel ban than...

Haiti police deny attempt on Aristide's life

Published:Tuesday | March 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP):Haitian police are rejecting claims by ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's associates that he was the target of an assassination attempt.Shots were fired at the former leader's motorcade on...