PARIS (AP):With the Eiffel Tower as a backdrop, French conservative FranÁois Fillon clung tenaciously to his presidential candidacy yesterday, urging thousands of supporters at a high-stakes rally not...
PALM BEACH, Florida (AP):United States President Donald Trump turned to Congress yesterday for help, finding evidence to support his unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump's telephones tapped during the election. Obama's...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Holy smokes! The Israeli government has taken a step toward decriminalising marijuana use. Israeli media say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet has approved a measure that would reduce penalties for possession of...
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The White House demanded on Sunday that Congress investigate whether former President Barack Obama abused his executive powers in connection with the 2016 presidential election. President Donald Trump levelled that claim on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's claim that then-President Barack Obama had Trump's telephones tapped during last year's election (all times EST): 10:05 a.m. The former director of national intelligence in...
MOGADISHU, (AP):The Somalia government yesterday reported that 110 people died from hunger over a 48-hour period in a single region the first death toll announced in a severe drought threatening millions across the country.The government declared...
PALM BEACH, Florida (AP):President Donald Trump yesterday accused former President Barack Obama of having Trump Tower telephone lines "wire tapped" during last year's election.But he didn't offer any evidence or say what prompted the allegation....
ISTANBUL (AP):Turkish officials said that an aircraft believed to belong to the Syrian military crashed near the Turkey-Syria border yesterday, with the Syrian opposition telling Turkish media they shot the plane down.Prime Minister Binali Yildirim...
A spokesman for former US President Barack Obama has rejected claims that he had the Trump Tower telephones "wire tapped" during last year's election.The spokesman, Kevin Lewis, said a "cardinal rule" of the Obama administration was that no White...
AMMAN (AP):Jordan yesterday executed 10 prisoners with ties to Islamic extremism who allegedly carried out five shootings and a bombing since 2003.It was the largest round of executions in the kingdom in at least a decade.Among those killed in the...
HAVANA (AP):Cuba's tobacco farmers are celebrating a bumper crop after two bad years that coincided with a boom in demand set off by a surge of tourists and looser United States rules on cigar-buying.One night of rain combined with a winter chill...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP): Somalia's prime minister announced Saturday that 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region as a severe drought threatens millions of people across the country. It was the first death toll...
BEIRUT (AP):Syrian government forces recaptured Palmyra from the Islamic State group yesterday, scoring a victory against the militants who had seized the historic town in December for the...
CAIRO (AP):German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday pledged to boost support for Egypt's economic development and partner with Cairo to help address the region's refugee crisis, with an eye on...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP):A Rwandan man who lied to gain entry into the United States after helping slaughter scores of people during his country's 1994 genocide must serve 15 years behind...
DAKAR (AP):Three Islamic extremist factions in Mali announced that they have merged into one group and pledged allegiance to al-Qaida's leader, according to a group that monitors jihadist websites....
BOSTON (AP):Senators from eight states that have legalised the recreational or medicinal use of marijuana are asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to uphold the Department of Justice's existing enforcement policy towards states with voter-approved...
Zimbabwe's High Court has outlawed corporal punishment for children both at school and in the home. The ruling comes after a parent complained that her six-year-old child had deep bruises after a beating by a teacher. The mother said her...
GENEVA (AP):A United Nations panel said yesterday the evacuation of eastern Aleppo, after months of siege and aerial bombing by Russian and Syrian forces, was one of many war crimes...
NEW YORK (AP):Hershey says it expects to cut its global workforce by about 15 per cent, with the reductions coming mostly from hourly employees outside the United States.The Pennsylvania-based...
NEW YORK (AP):Tiny tubes and filaments in some Canadian rock appear to be the oldest known fossils, giving new support to some ideas about how life began, a new study says.The features are mineralised remains of what appear to be bacteria that lived...
BOGOTA (AP):A retired journalist who joined the criminal underworld while researching a book on South America's drug cartels, became the first Colombian, and possibly the first Latin American, to be...
BERLIN (AP):Germany's foreign minister says the Turkish ambassador has been summoned to hear Berlin's concerns over the arrest of a Die Welt newspaper journalist.Deniz Yucel, who has...
MADRID (AP):Madrid's regional government says it is assessing how to get an orange-and-white bus campaigning against allowing children to change their gender off the Spanish capital's streets.The...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP):Protesters planned marches yesterday in downtown Vancouver as President Donald Trump's two eldest sons attended the grand opening of their company's new hotel and...
