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Trump 'unshackled'

Published:Tuesday | October 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Donald Trump, the Republican Party's candidate for the United States presidency, has said "the shackles have been taken off me" as he embarks on the final four weeks of his presidential campaign.Trump, reeling after the release of...

Pakistani journalist barred from travelling

Published:Tuesday | October 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP):A Pakistani journalist says he has been barred from leaving the country after his newspaper published an article of his contending there was a rift between the government and military leaders over...

South African campus hit by second day of student unrest

Published:Tuesday | October 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP):South African riot police fought stone-throwing students for a second consecutive day at a university campus yesterday amid national calls by demonstrators for free higher...

Israel demolishes home of Palestinian attack accomplice

Published:Tuesday | October 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP):The Israeli military on Tuesday demolished the family home of a Palestinian convicted of being an accomplice to a deadly attack on Israelis last year, while security was stepped up for a Jewish...

HAITI: 'We hear helicopters flying overhead, but no aid coming'

Published:Tuesday | October 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM

DAME MARIE, Haiti (AP): In the most western tip of Haiti, 300 patients with festering wounds lay silently on beds at the main hospital in the seaside village of Dame Marie waiting for medicine a week after Hurricane Matthew hit the remote peninsula...

Man killed in St Elizabeth car crash

Published:Sunday | October 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

The Santa Cruz police are investigating the circumstances in which a motor vehicle collision claimed the life of a man on Main Street, Santa Cruz in St Elizabeth on Saturday.The man has been identified as Andrew Abrahams, 24, of Burnt Ground, St...

Matthew triggers severe flooding in NC, US death toll at 16

Published:Sunday | October 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP):Hurricane Matthew's torrential rains triggered severe flooding in North Carolina on Sunday as the deteriorating storm made its exit to the sea and thousands of people...

Drones carrying medicines, blood face top challenge

Published:Sunday | October 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP):At first, the drone took some explaining. Anxious villagers buzzed with rumours of a new blood-sucking thing that would fly above their homes. Witchcraft, some said.The truth was more practical: A United Nations project would...

5 killed in wrong-way crash were in high school

Published:Sunday | October 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WILLISTON, VT. (AP)A school co-principal says the five teenagers killed in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver in Williston, Vermont, were all high school juniors.Harwood Union Middle and High School co-principal Amy Rex says four of the five...

Fire chief asked that videos of landfill blaze be edited

Published:Sunday | October 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CASPER (AP):Casper Fire Chief Kenneth King asked one of his inspectors to eliminate "bad parts" of video evidence being sought by authorities after a burning woodchip pile at Casper's landfill...

DEFIANT TRUMP SEIZES ON CLINTON SEX SCANDAL BEFORE DEBATE

Published:Sunday | October 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hours before a critical presidential debate, a damaged but defiant Donald Trump seized on never-proved sexual allegations against Hillary Clinton's husband as a growing group of Republican leaders called on the New York...

MATTHEW TRIGGERS SEVERE FLOODING IN NC; US DEATH TOLL AT 15

Published:Sunday | October 9, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew's torrential rains triggered severe flooding in North Carolina on Sunday as the deteriorating storm made its exit to the sea, and thousands of people had to be rescued from their homes and cars. The...

Trump dismisses Republican leaders' calls to quit race

Published:Saturday | October 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):A defiant Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he would "never" abandon his White House bid, facing an intensifying backlash from Republican leaders across the nation who called for him to quit the race following the release of his...

Saudi-led coalition airstrike hits Yemen funeral, kills 82

Published:Saturday | October 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

SANAA, Yemen (AP):An airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition yesterday targeted a funeral hall packed with mourners in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, killing at least 82 people and turning the site into a "lake of blood", according to a senior health ministry...

German police blow up explosives stashed in raided apartment

Published:Saturday | October 8, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP):German investigators found several hundred grams of "highly volatile" explosives in an apartment they raided yesterday in the eastern city of Chemnitz as they sought a Syrian man suspected of planning a bombing attack. The suspect...

Hurricane Matthew leaves thousands without power on Florida's Atlantic coast

Published:Friday | October 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP): Hurricane Matthew scraped Florida's Atlantic coast early Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to half-a-million people but sparing some of the most heavily populated stretches of shoreline the...

Photos | The devastation of Matthew

Published:Thursday | October 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Hurricane Matthew's devastation

Published:Thursday | October 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Hurricane Matthew has been hurling across the Caribbean since Tuesday, wreaking havoc in Haiti, Cuba, The Bahamas, and is now steaming toward Florida with terrifying winds. It also threatens North Carolina and Georgia in the United States....

Security Council to name next UN chief

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2016 | 12:03 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP):The Security Council unanimously agreed yesterday that Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres should be the next secretary general of the United Nations.Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin made the announcement to...

Steady Pence gets wide praise, but Kaine lands jabs on Trump

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Republican Mike Pence won bipartisan plaudits for a calm and collected performance in the vice-presidential debate. But Democrat Tim Kaine was claiming mission accomplished...

Fire traded with India after 'unprovoked' attack

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP):Pakistan's military has accused India of another "unprovoked" attack in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and says it is returning fire.In a statement, the military said on...

Election postponed indefinitely

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

MIAMI (AP):Officials in Haiti say they're indefinitely postponing a presidential election scheduled for Sunday after Hurricane Matthew caused extensive damage in the southwest part of the country.The Provision...

Total abortion ban rejected after mass protests

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP):Lawmakers with Poland's ruling right-wing party voted in a tumultuous parliamentary commission session to reject a proposal for a total ban on abortion.The decision appeared to doom...

Florida governor: 'If you're able to, leave now'

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP): People boarded up beach homes, schools closed and officials ordered evacuations along the US East Coast on Wednesday as Hurricane Matthew tore through the Bahamas and took aim at Florida, where the governor urged coastal...

Hurricane Matthew moves into Bahamas

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the storm began battering the Bahamas Wednesday and triggered evacuations...

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