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Published:Thursday | January 26, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A newspaper is reporting that six people working as journalists were among the group of 230 people arrested in Washington after self-described anti-capitalists began breaking windows in Washington on Inauguration Day. The...

Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Donald Trump says in a speech at the Department of Homeland Security that his executive actions on immigration show that "beginning today", the US will get back "control of its border."...

Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Congressional Republicans are discovering that with Donald Trump in the White House, they may be spending a lot of time answering for false claims from their president.Eager to...

Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP):Russia, Iran and Turkey presented a united front at the conclusion of two days of talks in Kazakhstan between the Syrian government and the armed opposition, pledging support...

Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The Trump administration has instituted what it described as a temporary media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or...

Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Insurance likely won't cover the damage to a limousine set on fire during an Inauguration Day protest in Washington, the limo company president says.Muhammad Ashraf, the...

Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP):Israel announced plans yesterday to build 2,500 more settler homes on the West Bank, moving to step up construction just days after the swearing-in of Donald Trump brought to power a US administration seen as friendly to the...

Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): Britain's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Theresa May must get legislative approval to start the process of leaving the European Union, raising the possibility that lawmakers will delay her plans to trigger...

Published:Monday | January 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP) To fight what it called a "grave threat" to the country, a watchdog group yesterday filed a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution by allowing his...

Published:Monday | January 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump moved to pull the United States out of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact yesterday, dealing a quick blow to Barack Obama's legacy as the new...

Published:Monday | January 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BANJUL (AP):Gambia's new vice-president will be a female leader of the opposition coalition that helped bring new President Adama Barrowto power, a presidential spokesman announced yesterday as regional...

Published:Monday | January 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Opening his first official week in office, President Donald Trump warned business leaders yesterday that he would impose a "substantial border tax" on companies that move their manufacturing out of the United States, while promising...

Published:Monday | January 23, 2017 | 12:00 AM

HOUSTON, Texas (AP):Doctors say former President George H.W. Bush is sitting up, laughing, joking, and asking when he can go home from the Houston hospital that has been treating him for pneumonia for the...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

The White House says it's at the 'very beginning' of discussing plans to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.The statement follows reports in Israeli media that President Donald Trump...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ASTANA (AP):Syrian rebel delegates met in Kazakhstan Sunday on the eve of their first talks with the government in a year, in which the two sides hope to consolidate a ceasefire reached last...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP):It could take days to officially identify the 16 people killed when a bus carrying Hungarian students returning from a ski trip burst into a fireball after crashing in Italy,...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump on Sunday offered a scattershot response to the sweeping post-inauguration protests against his new administration, sarcastically undermining the public opposition and then defending demonstrators' rights a...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

CANBERRA (AP):Relatives of passengers and crew aboard the missing Malaysian airliner plan to present the Malaysian transport minister in Australia with letters urging that the search resumes...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans anxiously monitor President Donald Trump's Twitter feed, parse his pronouncements, and brace for potential controversy each time he gives an interview. But GOP lawmakers also say they're growing...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP) -- French left-wing voters cast ballots Sunday in a nationwide presidential primary aimed at producing a candidate strong enough to confront formidable conservative and nationalist rivals in the April-May general election. That's no...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) -- Gambia's capital on Sunday was awaiting the arrival of the country's new leader and an era of democracy, hours after the authoritarian ruler of 22 years flew into exile with an extraordinary set of assurances from the...

Published:Sunday | January 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM

ATLANTA (AP) -- Eleven people were killed and 23 were injured after severe weather struck southern Georgia, officials said Sunday. Catherine Howden of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said the deaths occurred in Cook, Brooks and Berrien...

Published:Saturday | January 21, 2017 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Wearing pink, pointy-eared 'pussyhats' to mock the new president, hundreds of thousands of women massed in the United States capital and cities around the globe yesterday to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won't let...

Published:Saturday | January 21, 2017 | 1:41 PM

FARINDOLA (AP):Using saws, shovels and their gloved hands, rescue workers yesterday advanced slowly through the wreckage of an avalanche-destroyed hotel in central Italy, listening hard for any signs of more survivors among the 23 missing guests and...

Published:Saturday | January 21, 2017 | 1:50 PM

NATAL, Brazil (AP)Military police took control yesterday of a prison in north eastern Brazil after fighting between rival gangs left 26 inmates dead in recent days, the latest in a spate of violence in the country's penitentiaries.A week after the...

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