LONDON (AP):Britain's government asked two regulators to evaluate Rupert Murdoch's effort to consolidate his media empire yesterday in a move that will bring fresh attention to the mogul's holdings.Culture...
TOKYO (AP):United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hinted yesterday at a tougher strategy to confront North Korea's nuclear threat, but said Pyongyang had no need to fear the US, an alternately...
PARIS (AP):A letter exploded yesterday at the French office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), lightly injuring one person, amid heightened security around Europe after a string of deadly attacks.The incident came as a Greek anarchist group...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened yesterday to scrap a deal with the European Union to readmit migrants who have crossed illegally into Europe, amid a stand...
WASHINGTON, USA (AP): White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney says the Trump administration is cutting spending for climate change efforts because "we consider that to be a waste of your money." Mulvaney says: "I think the...
BERLIN (AP):Police say a package sent to the German Finance Ministry containing low-grade explosives like the ones used in firecrackers has been safely disposed of.Berlin police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf...
CAIRO (AP):Egyptians stood in line yesterday outside a waste management station in the capital Cairo to sell their solid trash, a baby step in an ambitious project to ease the gigantic waste management...
YPSILANTI, Michigan (AP):President Donald Trump announced yesterday that the administration will re-examine federal requirements governing the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks, moving forcefully against Obama-era environmental regulations that...
MOGADISHU (AP):Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia, local officials and an expert said Tuesday, the first such seizure of a large commercial vessel on the crucial...
UNITED NATIONS (AP):The Syrian government committed "slow-motion slaughter" of unknown numbers of Syrians trapped in besieged and hard-to-reach areas by willfully denying them food and...
TAIPEI (AP):Prosecutors in Taiwan yesterday indicted the island's China-friendly ex-President Ma Ying-jeou over the leaking of classified information involving suspected influence peddling by a...
NEW YORK (AP):Preet Bharara, the high-profile federal prosecutor who was fired by United States President Donald Trump's administration after refusing to resign, has been replaced temporarily...
NEW YORK (AP):A sloppy late-season storm lashed the Northeast with sleet and more than a foot of snow in some places Monday, paralysing much of the Washington-to-Boston corridor after a remarkably mild February had lulled people into thinking the...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday directed fresh verbal attacks at the Netherlands amid their growing diplomatic spat, holding the country responsible for Europe's worst mass killing since World War II. In a...
WASHINGTON (AP):The White House and Republican leaders in Congress scrambled yesterday to shore up support for their health care bill as critics went on the attack over new estimates that 14...
TORONTO (AP):United States President Donald Trump loomed large in the mind of Mexico City plastic surgeon Rodrigo Munoz as he was deciding where to go for a winter ski vacation.Munoz has skied in...
RAMALLAH(AP):Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said US President Donald Trump has assured him of his commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.Abbas yesterday spoke about what he described as a constructive phone call with Trump two days...
THE HAGUE (AP):With his flamboyant shock of blonde-dyed hair and fiery anti-Islam rhetoric, Dutch politician Geert Wilders comes across as a man who doesn't mind the limelight.Yet for the...
IBDIR (AP):A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a 1997 shooting rampage was unrepentant after his release from prison Sunday, lashing out at Israelis with harshly...
WASHINGTON (AP):The House Intelligence Committee is asking the Trump administration for evidence that the phones at Trump Tower were tapped during the campaign as its namesake has charged, a request reinforced yesterday by an influential Republican...
NIAGARA FALLS, NY (AP):Teaching current events in the age of Donald Trump has become fraught with peril for some educators who have interjected their personal political beliefs into the classroom.A New York City teacher...
ROME (AP):Italian opposition politicians from the far-right populist parties and other conservative forces yesterday demanded a new law quickly on legitimate defence to protect law-abiding citizensThe...
ROTTERDAM (AP):Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intensified his dispute with European nations yesterday, claiming that "Nazism is alive in the West" after two of his ministers were...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- A mountain of trash gave way in a massive garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital, killing at least 46 people and leaving several dozen missing, residents said, as officials vowed to relocate those who...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye expressed defiance toward the corruption allegations against her as she vacated the presidential palace and returned to her home on Sunday, two days after the Constitutional...
