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Face-biter said he fled demon-like figure before killings

Published:Tuesday | February 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

STUART, Florida (AP):A Florida college student accused of randomly killing a couple in their garage and chewing on the dead man's face told television psychologist Phil McGraw he was fleeing a demon-like figure named Daniel and only had a vague...

Small plane crashes into California homes, killing 3 people

Published:Tuesday | February 28, 2017 | 4:29 PM

RIVERSIDE, California (AP):Three people died and two were injured, one critically, when a small plane carrying them home from a cheerleading competition slammed into two Southern California homes and sparked a raging fire, authorities and witnesses...

UN aid workers leave famine-hit South Sudan area for safety

Published:Tuesday | February 28, 2017 | 12:00 AM

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP): The United Nations says aid workers in a famine-stricken region of South Sudan have been forced to relocate because of insecurity, complicating efforts to help more than 100,000 affected people. The UN statement Tuesday said...

‘Alarmingly high’ number of anti-migrant crimes – report

Published:Monday | February 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP):Migrants and their homes in Germany faced more than 3,500 attacks in 2016, a number that is "alarmingly high and cause for concern," a German official said on Monday, while adding that...

Police find dismembered bodies in southern city

Published:Monday | February 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):Police in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero have found three dismembered bodies on the side of a highway.Pieces of the hacked-up, decapitated bodies were found in bags alongside the...

The dirty dozen: UN issues list of 12 most worrying bacteria

Published:Monday | February 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a list of the top dozen bacteria most dangerous to humans, warning that doctors are fast running out of treatment options.In a...

Nazi's son returns art that his family looted

Published:Monday | February 27, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP):In a gesture welcomed in Poland, the son of a Nazi official has returned three artworks that his family had looted from the southern Polish city of Krakow during World War II.Polish officials said yesterday that they hoped the...

More international news in brief

Published:Sunday | February 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP):Malaysia's health minister said Sunday that the dose of nerve agent given to North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un's half-brother was so high that it killed him "within 15-20...

Syrian warplanes pound rebel-held area in central city

Published:Sunday | February 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BEIRUT (AP):Government warplanes pounded a rebel-held neighbourhood in the central city of Homs on Sunday, killing at least three and wounding dozens, Syrian opposition activists said, and...

Naming airport after Clintons doesn't fly with GOP lawmaker

Published:Sunday | February 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP):With his party now holding all of the levers of power in Arkansas politics, a Republican state lawmaker is pushing to remove the names of the state's most famous Democrats - Bill and Hillary Clinton - from Little Rock's...

2 kidnapped Germans freed in Nigeria

Published:Sunday | February 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

KADUNA (AP):Nigerian security agents have freed two German archaeologists kidnapped by gunmen at a remote dig, the governor of northern Kaduna state said Sunday.The two academics are now at the German embassy in Abuja and...

Copy this: Vatican stakes out rights to Pope Francis' image

Published:Sunday | February 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- God's love may be free, but the Vatican says it has a copyright on the pope. Unnerved by the proliferation of papal-themed T-shirts, snow globes and tea towels around the world, the Vatican has warned it intends to "...

Trump says he won't attend correspondents dinner this spring

Published:Sunday | February 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump, who has been criticising the news media and is famously thin-skinned, says he won't be attending the White House Correspondents' Association dinner - sparing himself the dubious honour of being an...

EU lawmakers, in unusual move, pull the plug on racist talk

Published:Sunday | February 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) -- With the spectre of populism looming over a critical election year in Europe, the European Parliament has taken an unusual step to crack down on racism and hate speech in its own house. In an unprecedented move, lawmakers have...

In poor black region, fears and prayers over Trump

Published:Saturday | February 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM

MARION, Alabama (AP):In what's left of the Old South's plantation region, the descendants of slaves who pickedcotton and worked the dark soil are prayingdifferently since Donald Trump moved into the White House.During Barack Obama's eight years in...

Syrian who worked on nominated film can't attend Oscars

Published:Saturday | February 25, 2017 | 1:43 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):United States immigration authorities are barring entry to a 21-year-old Syrian cinematographer who worked on a harrowing film about his nation's civil war, The White Helmets, that has been nominated for an Academy Award.According to...

Man shot by police after driving into crowd

Published:Saturday | February 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP):A man drove a car into pedestrians in a central square in the German city of Heidelberg yesterday, injuring three people, then fled, He was shot by police after being tracked down.The police reported that one of the three people hit...

Twin attacks leave at least 32 dead

Published:Saturday | February 25, 2017 | 1:57 PM

BEIRUT (AP):In synchronised attacks, insurgents stormed into heavily guarded security offices in Syria's central Homs city, clashed with troops and then blew themselves up, killing a senior officer and at least 31 others, state media and officials...

Marleys in line as California legalises ganja

Published:Saturday | February 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP):Country singer Willie Nelson, the children of the late reggae icon Bob Marley and comedian Whoopi Goldberg are just a few of the growing number of celebrities publicly jumping into the marijuana industry and eyeing the California...

Kelly: No use of US military to enforce immigration

Published:Thursday | February 23, 2017 | 3:37 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP):UNITED STATES Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly pledged yesterday that America won't enlist its military to enforce immigration laws and that there will be "no mass deportations".Only hours earlier, President Donald Trump...

Austria's health minister dies of cancer at age 53

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

VIENNA, Austria (AP):Austria's Heath ministry says the country's health minister, Sabine Oberhauser, has died at age 53.The ministry said Oberhauser died yesterday. She had been battling cancer for two years...

Venezuela, short on food, short of hope

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

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuela is so short on food that tens of thousands are going hungry or even starving. Its murder rate is among the highest in the world. Its economy is so crippled that the average shopper spends...

Extremists attack Niger military patrol, kill 15 soldiers

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

NIAMEY, Niger (AP):A spokesman for Niger's military says at least 15 soldiers have been killed in an attack by Islamic extremists on a patrol near the country's border with Mali.Colonel Abdoul Aziz...

Lawmakers extend tolerance to cultivating cannabis

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

THE HAGUE (AP):Dutch lawmakers yesterday voted in favour of tolerating the cultivation of cannabis, a move that could bring to an end a key paradox of the relaxed Dutch policy on marijuana and hashish.Buying small amounts of pot at so-called coffee...

Trump praises new African American museum during first visit

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

WASHINGTON (AP):United States President Donald Trump denounced "bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms" during his first visit to the new Smithsonian black history...

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