CAIRO (AP):The Libyan navy said yesterday that at least 90 migrants are believed to have perished when their rickety boat started to fall apart in the Mediterranean Sea after leaving the Libyan coast.The boat,...
CAMERINO (AP):The red brick Amatrice city hall resisted the devastating August 24 quake that collapsed buildings all around it, only to crumble under the one-two punch of lesser jolts on Wednesday night. They also...
WASHINGTON (AP):With a dozen days left until Election Day, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are refusing to commit to working with each other after the election, putting into question the winner's ability to heal the country's wounds after a...
Syria BEIRUT (AP):Air strikes in Syria killed up to 22 people, mostly children, yesterday when warplanes struck a residential area housing a school complex in the northern rebel-held province of Idlib, activists and rescue workers said.A team of...
WASHINGTON (AP):The United States on Wednesday will abstain for the first time from a United Nations resolution criticising America's economic embargo against Cuba, according to diplomats familiar with the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP):A teenage woman in Haiti has been killed and five others injured when a fight broke out while authorities were distributing food to hurricane victims.A statement issued by...
MEXICO CITY (AP):A federal judge in Mexico has ordered that a once-fugitive police chief be held on charges of kidnapping in the disappearance of 43 students.The Attorney General's Office announced...
BERLIN (AP):The United Nations refugee agency said yesterday that at least 3,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year in an attempt to reach Europe, making 2016 the deadliest year on record.The Geneva-based agency had warned...
'UNITED NATIONS (AP):A United Nations human rights expert is calling the United Nations' denial of legal responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010 caused by UN peacekeepers "a disgrace".Philip Alston...
QUETTA (AP):Militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy in the southwestern city of Quetta overnight, killing 61 people, mostly police cadets and recruits, and waging a ferocious gun battle with troops that lasted into the...
SYDNEY (AP):Four people were killed Tuesday after a river rapids ride malfunctioned at a popular theme park on Australia's east coast, officials said.Two men and two women died while on the ride at...
WASHINGTON (AP):The Justice Department and FBI say they will have officials ready on election day to respond to potential crimes, with monitors at select polling places and lawyers who...
PALM BEACH, Fla (AP): Election day just 15 days off, Donald Trump fought to preserve his narrow path to the presidency in must-win Florida on Monday. Hillary Clinton worked to slam the door on her Republican opponent in New Hampshire. Trump...
CARACAS (AP):Venezuela's Congress on Sunday declared that the government had staged a coup by blocking a drive to recall President Nicol·s Maduro in a raucous legislative session that was interrupted when his...
CALAIS (AP):Carrying their belongings in bags and suitcases, long lines of migrants waited calmly in chilly temperatures on Monday to board buses in the French port city of Calais, as authorities began evacuating...
FARGO, North Dakota (AP):North Dakota voters will decide next month whether to legalise marijuana for medical use by siding either with opponents who say sciences is on their side or with supporters like a desperate grandmother who illegally...
CARACAS, (AP) : Government supporters on Sunday interrupted a special congressional session where lawmakers were discussing bringing legal charges against President Nicol·s Maduro.Dozens of red-shirted...
HINDMAN, Kentucky. (AP):Jim Justice, a coal billionaire running for West Virginia governor, owes millions in back taxes to some of Appalachia's most impoverished counties, including one in...
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Newly confident and buoyant in the polls, Hillary Clinton is looking past Donald Trump while widening her mission to include helping Democrats seize the Senate and chip away at the Republican-controlled House. Though Trump'...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Donald Trump is laying out an ambitious agenda for his first 100 days as president but pointedly noting that he will find time to sue the numerous women who have accused him of groping and other unwanted sexual behaviour....
WASHINGTON (AP):Donald Trump opened the door yesterday to the possibility he would contest the results of the presidential election if there is a "questionable result", teasingly promising to fully accept the outcome "if I win".The Republican...
PARIS (AP):Iraq's prime minister vowed yesterday to protect civilians fleeing the battle to oust Islamic State extremists from Mosul, as the offensive picked up speed and diplomats worked to...
WASHINGTON (AP):Donald Trump asserted in the final presidential debate that no one respects women more than he does. Yet in its closing moments, standing onstage with the first major-party female presidential...
BEIJING (AP):Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that his country is separating from the United States (US) in a speech before a Beijing economic forum yesterday, after handing China a...
BRUSSELS (AP):France warned Britain at the start of a European Union (EU) summit yesterday that it would face a tough, unyielding opponent if it sought too many concessions during its...
