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Russia cloud over Trump not likely to fade with Flynn exit

Published:Tuesday | February 14, 2017 | 5:08 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):Questions about the Trump administration's ties to Russia are hardly going to disappear with the firing of national security adviser Michael Flynn. Investigations are under way, and more are likely by the new administration and on...

No designer babies, but gene editing to avoid disease? Maybe

Published:Tuesday | February 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Do not expect designer babies any time soon - but a major new ethics report leaves open the possibility of one day altering human heredity to fight genetic diseases, with...

British foreign secretary: Gambia to return to Commonwealth

Published:Tuesday | February 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BANJUL, Gambia (AP):Gambia will soon return to the Commonwealth under its new government, Britain's foreign secretary said yesterday after meeting with President Adama Barrow and pledging London's support for the small...

Malaysia official: North Korea leader's brother dead, attacked at airport

Published:Tuesday | February 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP): The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was assassinated at a Kuala Lumpur airport, telling medical workers before he died en route to a hospital that he had been attacked with a chemical spray, a senior...

Somaliland agrees to UAE military base in northern port

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

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP):Somalia's breakaway northern territory of Somaliland has said the United Arab Emirates can establish a military base in its territory.The Emirati government in January submitted a formal application seeking permission from...

IMF head: Trump good for US economy for now as trouble looms

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

DUBAI:The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Sunday that US President Donald Trump taking office is likely good for the American economy in the short term, though rising interest...

Penn State calls immigration posters 'deeply offensive'

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

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (AP):Penn State says that posters that someone has put up on university bulletin boards calling on people to report those in the country illegally are "deeply...

White House declines to publicly defend embattled Flynn

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

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP):A top White House aide sidestepped repeated chances yesterday to publicly defend embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn following reports that he engaged in...

North Korea test-fires missile, apparently challenging Trump

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

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP):In an implicit challenge to United States (US) President Donald Trump, North Korea appeared to fire a ballistic missile early yesterday in what would be its first such test of the year.After receiving word of the launch,...

Germany picks ex-foreign minister Steinmeier as president

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

BERLIN (AP):A special assembly elected former German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier by an overwhelming majority yesterday to be the country's new president.Steinmeier was elected in Berlin...

Officials say Hamburg airport scare was likely pepper spray

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

BERLIN (AP):Hundreds of passengers at Hamburg Airport were evacuated and more than a dozen flights cancelled after some 68 people were injured by a hazardous material that likely spread through the...

Swiss ease citizenship for 'third-generation' foreigners

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

BERLIN (AP):Voters in Switzerland decided yesterday to make it easier for young "third-generation foreigners" to get Swiss citizenship, agreeing to extend to about 25,000 people under age 25...

Peru's fugitive former president a no-show in Israel

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

JERUSALEM (AP):Peru's fugitive former president was not on a plane from San Francisco to Tel Aviv last night, Israel's Foreign Ministry said, following reports he was en route amid an international manhunt for his arrest over a corruption scandal in...

Hezbollah leader says 'idiot' Trump makes him optimistic

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

BEIRUT (AP):The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group says the world will benefit from having an "idiot" in the White House.Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech yesterday that his group is...

Congolese music festival for peace draws tens of thousands

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

GOMA, Congo (AP) -- Enrique Makasi's hometown of Beni in eastern Congo is under frequent siege from rebels, and music is the way he tells the world what is happening. Performing before tens of thousands at the Amani Festival in the regional...

North Korea test-fires missile, apparently challenging Trump

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

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- In an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump, North Korea appeared to fire a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year. After receiving word of the launch, Trump stood at...

Hundreds held in immigration raids

Published:Saturday | February 11, 2017 | 11:26 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP):Advocacy groups across the United States have reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are rounding up people in large numbers around the country as part of stepped-up enforcement under President Donald Trump...

Trump attacks raise safety concerns for judges

Published:Saturday | February 11, 2017 | 11:35 AM

SEATTLE (AP):When a judge who helped derail President Donald Trump's travel ban was hit with online threats, the abuse raised safety concerns among jurists across the country, and experts are worried that the president's own attacks on the judiciary...

Poles protest plans to expand Warsaw

Published:Saturday | February 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WARSAW (AP):Hundreds of protesters with flags and banners marched in downtown Warsaw yesterday against the ruling party's plan to enlarge the Polish capital by incorporating 32 neighbouring municipalities.The ruling populist Law and Justice party...

Woman falls 30 feet to her death inside World Trade Center Oculus

Published:Saturday | February 11, 2017 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP): A 29-year-old New Jersey woman plunged about 30 feet to her death off an escalator inside the famed World Trade Center transit hub known as the Oculus on Saturday morning, police said. Jenny Santos of Kearny was trying to retrieve a...

Kenya declares drought affecting country a national disaster

Published:Friday | February 10, 2017 | 12:00 AM

Kenya's president has declared the drought, which has affected as much as half the country, a national disaster. Uhuru Kenyatta appealed for international aid and said the government would increase food handouts to the most needy communities....

Appeals court refuses to reinstate Trump travel ban

Published:Thursday | February 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP):A federal appeals court refused yesterday to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations.The panel of three judges from the 9th US Circuit...

Syria war seethes despite ceasefire

Published:Thursday | February 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BEIRUT (AP):Syria's fronts are on fire despite a ceasefire reached in December between the rebels and the government.Though the two sides sat face-to-face in the Kazakh capital of Astana a month later, the government has...

Nearly 1 in 5 immigrants in US illegally in NYC, LA areas

Published:Thursday | February 9, 2017 | 4:35 PM

SANTA ANA, Calif (AP):A report released yesterday estimates more than 2.5 million immigrants in the country illegally live in the metropolitan areas of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, which have pledged to fight President Trump's plans to expand...

Pot of noodles blamed for camper fire that killed 2 children

Published:Thursday | February 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BRUNSWICK, Ga (AP):Authorities say that a pot of noodles cooking on a hot plate sparked a fire inside a camper trailer that killed two young children and critically burned their mother and a...

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