JERUSALEM (AP):Egypt has condemned an Israeli bill that, if adopted, would legalise settlements built without government permission in the West Bank - territory Palestinians claim as part of their future...
CLAY, WestVirginia (AP):The director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor are under scrutiny after a racist post about first lady Michelle Obama caused a backlash and prompted calls on social media for both women to be fired.Clay County...
Foreign minister tappedto become next presidentBERLIN (AP):Germany's foreign minister, who once referred to Donald Trump as a "hate preacher," was tapped yesterday to become the country's next president.Frank-Walter Steinmeier would take over the...
BALTIMORE (AP):The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are urging President-elect Donald Trump to adopt humane policies towards immigrants and refugees.The US Conference of Catholic Bishops said...
LONDON (AP):WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was being questioned by prosecutors yesterday at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London about possible sexual misconduct committed in Sweden six years ago.Assange...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):A South African rhino who was named Hope after she survived a 2015 attack by poachers who hacked off her horns and part of her face has died.Saving the Survivors, a conservation group...
WASHINGTON (AP): President-elect Donald Trump is starting to sound an awful lot like President Barack Obama on immigration. In his first postelection interview, Trump said he will focus on deporting criminal immigrants and not everyone living in...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump's presidential upset win sparked a fourth day of protests across the United States, with tens of thousands of protesters marching and railing against him. Saturday protests - held in big cities such as Los Angeles...
PARIS (AP) -- France marked the anniversary of Islamic extremists' coordinated attacks on Paris with a sombre silence on Sunday that was broken only by voices reciting the names of the 130 slain, and the son of the first person to die stressing...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island early Monday, shaking residents awake, causing damage to buildings and prompting emergency services to warn people along the coast to move to higher ground...
WASHINGTON (AP):President-elect Donald Trump yesterday refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice...
WASHINGTON (AP):In a cordial beginning to their transfer of power, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met at the White House yesterday.Obama called the 90-minute meeting "excellent", and his successor said he looked forward to...
UNITED NATIONS (AP):A United Nations (UN) official says the last food rations inside besieged eastern Aleppo will run out by next week.Speaking in Geneva, Jan Egeland, the special adviser to the UN envoy for...
BEIRUT (AP):A Syrian Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group north of the country is on the verge of surrounding a wide area north of the IS stronghold of Raqqa, according to a...
MOSCOW (AP):Russia bristled at extending the breaks in the fighting in Aleppo, saying it would play into the hands of the militants, but promised that such halts will continue, according...
CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP):A gunman with a history of domestic abuse fatally shot a police officer and wounded a second on Thursday before he and a woman were found dead following a reported fight at...
MARRAKECH (AP):The election of a United States (US) president who has called global warming a "hoax" alarmed environmentalists and climate scientists yesterday, raising questions about whether America...
LONDON (AP):Five people were killed and more than 50 injured when a tram derailed in south London during a heavy rainstorm early yesterday, police said.Emergency workers were still at the scene of the...
LOS ANGELES (AP):Donald Trump's presidential victory set off protests early yesterday on both coasts.From Pennsylvania to California, Oregon and Washington, hundreds of people hit the streets to...
The Philippines' foul-mouthed president has welcomed Donald Trump's election victory, calling him a fellow curser.Rodrigo Duterte, during a visit to Malaysia yesterday, said, "Long live Mr. Trump! We both...
WASHINGTON (AP):Conceding his party's staggering electoral defeat, President Barack Obama yesterday invited President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him to discuss the handover of power from...
NEW YORK (AP:Hillary Clinton told supporters yesterday that they owed Donald Trump "an open mind and a chance to lead".Addressing stricken staff and voters at a New York City hotel, Clinton urged acceptance of Trump's stunning win after a campaign...
HAVANA (AP):Cubans worried yesterday that President Donald Trump would throw the United States' two-year-old detente with Cuba into reverse, erasing their hopes for a more prosperous future of normal ties with Washington.The Cuban government,...
WASHINGTON (AP): Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States. The Republican nominee won Wednesday after capturing Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes, putting him over the 270 threshold. Voters eager to shake up the...
