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Philippine official says president exaggerating on killings of criminals

Published:Wednesday | December 14, 2016 | 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines (AP): The Philippine justice secretary said Wednesday that President Rodrigo Duterte often exaggerates killings of criminals he supposedly carried out to send a chilling warning to lawbreakers. Vitaliano Aguirre II told...

Iran, angered by US sanctions bill, considers atomic boats

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2016 | 11:02 AM

TEHRAN,(AP):Iran's president yesterday ordered officials to draw up plans to build nuclear-powered ships and to show how the United States violated last year's nuclear deal, a response to a vote by the US Congress to extend some sanctions on the...

UN finds South Sudan bodies with signs they were executed

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2016 | 12:00 AM

KOBOKO (AP):Internal United Nations reports obtained by The Associated Press say UN officials in South Sudan found bodies with gunshot wounds "which indicate they were executed".One report says...

Most Palestinians no longer believe in two-state deal

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2016 | 12:00 AM

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP):Two-thirds of Palestinians believe a two-state solution to their conflict with Israel is no longer possible, a poll said yesterday.The share of those who lost faith in such a...

India arrests 12 for not standing during national anthem

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2016 | 12:00 AM

NEW DELHI (AP):Twelve people have been arrested in southern India for not standing while the national anthem was being played at an international film festival, police said yesterday.The...

Pakistan's national carrier chief resigns after plane crash

Published:Tuesday | December 13, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP):A spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines said the national carrier's chief resigned following last week's plane crash that killed all 47 people on board.Danyal Gilani said...

Former Obama aide writing memoir

Published:Monday | December 12, 2016 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):A former White House aide who is now the chief operating officer of a Brooklyn-based media company is working on an upbeat but "warts and all" book about her years in the Obama administration.Twelve, an imprint of Hachette Book Group,...

Mosque of religious minority attacked

Published:Monday | December 12, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP):Thousands of Sunni Muslims marking the Prophet Muhammad's birthday yesterday attacked a mosque in Pakistan belonging to the Ahmadi religious minority, wounding several people, officials said.The mob...

Turkish ambassador takes up post in Israel after five-year spat

Published:Monday | December 12, 2016 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP):Turkey's ambassador to Israel has submitted his credentials as part of reconciliation efforts following a five-year spat.Mekin Mustafa Kemal Okem met President Reuven Rivlin in...

Merkel says Germany will stick to one-China policy

Published:Monday | December 12, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP):German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that her country, Europe's biggest economic power, will not be changing its policy on China and Taiwan after President-elect Donald Trump raised...

IMF chief Lagarde faces negligence trial in France

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):Christine Lagarde is taking time off her day job solving the world's financial crises to face trial Monday, accused of negligence after the French state handed US$425 million to a tycoon close to the president in 2008.The well-respected...

Dottin powers Heat to exciting victory

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 2:48 PM

BEIRUT (AP):Islamic State (IS) militants reoccupied Palmyra on Sunday, taking the ancient central city from government troops in a major advance after a year of setbacks in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, a Syrian government official and the group said...

Hospital left body in shower room for nine hours

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

SEMINOLE, Florida (AP):Staff at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Florida left the body of a veteran in a shower for nine hours after the veteran died and proper pickup procedures to the morgue weren't...

Trump rejects intel, lawmakers vow probe of Russia hacking

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday called a recent CIA assessment of Russian hacking "ridiculous" and says he's not interested in getting daily intelligence briefings an...

Syrian activists say IS has recaptured Palmyra

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BEIRUT (AP) -- Islamic State militants seized the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra on Sunday from government troops despite a wave of Russian airstrikes, opposition activists and the group reported, a major advance after a year of setbacks in Syria...

Nigerian church collapses, 160 dead, says hospital director

Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WARRI, Nigeria (AP) -- Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said Sunday. Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are...

Nobel Peace Prize winner urges shift in drug war

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2016 | 1:59 PM

STOCKHOLM (AP):Colombian Presi-dent Juan Manuel Santos yesterday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying it helped his country achieve the "impossible dream" of ending a half-century-long civil war.A smiling Santos received his Nobel diploma and gold...

Suicide bomber kills 23 in Aden

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2016 | 2:16 PM

SANAA (AP):A suicide bomber yesterday blew himself up inside an army base in the southern city of Aden, killing at least 45 soldiers and wounding another 30, security officials said.They said the bomber detonated a belt of explosives he was wearing...

26 new HIV cases daily worries rights group

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2016 | 12:00 AM

MANILA, (AP):A human-rights group says the Philippines is facing one of the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the Asia Pacific, fuelled by government policies that restrict intervention, including access to condoms by men who have sex with men....

New government needed urgently

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2016 | 2:28 PM

ROME (AP):Italy's president promised yesterday he'll decide "in the next hours" about who to tap as the next premier, saying the country needs a new government as soon as possible to tackle problems, like troubled banks and quake-struck towns...

Higher world oil prices loom

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2016 | 2:41 PM

VIENNA (AP):OPEC has persuaded 11 non-members to cut oil production, a move aimed at draining a worldwide oil glut and boosting low prices that have squeezed government finances in Russia and Saudi Arabia.Officials said yesterday that non-members...

Trump: Producer/presenter no problem

Published:Saturday | December 10, 2016 | 12:00 AM

UNIVERSAL CITY, California (AP):Arnold Schwarzenegger, star of the new version of Celebrity Apprentice, is unfazed that President-elect Donald Trump has retained a producer's stake in the show.Schwarzenegger said last Friday that it's just business...

6.5 magnitude quake rocks ocean floor off California coast

Published:Thursday | December 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP): The United States Geological Survey is reporting a 6.5 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Northern California in the Pacific Ocean. The quake hit at 6:50 a.m. Thursday about 100 miles west of Ferndale, California. No damage...

Trump signals possible change on immigrants

Published:Wednesday | December 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will "work something out" to help immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children and granted work visas by President Barack Obama.Trump has promised to undo Obama's executive actions,...

Kosovo citizen charged with participating in terror group

Published:Wednesday | December 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

PRISTINA (AP):Kosovo prosecutors said they have charged a citizen with participating in terror groups after the person joined fighters from the Islamic State, group in Syria.In a statement yesterday...

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