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Economic summit opens amid sluggish growth, trade disputes

Published:Sunday | September 4, 2016 | 12:00 AM

HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping called Sunday for leaders of the United States, Germany and other major economies to resist pressure to raise trade barriers as they opened a summit amid sluggish global growth and disputes over...

US, Russia come up short on Syria deal; more talks Monday

Published:Sunday | September 4, 2016 | 12:00 AM

HANGZHOU, China (AP) -- The United States and Russia came up short Sunday on a deal to end years of brutal fighting between Syria's Russian-backed government and U.S.-supported rebels. Negotiations were to continue Monday, even as a dispirited...

Hurricane Hermine batters Florida's northern coast

Published:Friday | September 2, 2016 | 12:30 PM

Wind and rain from Hurricane Hermine have battered Florida's northern Gulf Coast, causing flooding and power outages. Hermine made landfall earlier today, becoming the first hurricane to hit the state in more than a decade. The National...

Trump retreats from vow to deport all illegal immigrants

Published:Thursday | September 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

PHOENIX (AP):Donald Trump is retreating from his vow to deport everyone living in the United States illegally, even as he sticks with an aggressive tone on illegal immigration and remains...

Oppositions vows to keep pressure on Maduro

Published:Thursday | September 1, 2016 | 3:38 PM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuela's opposition is vowing to keep up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro after flooding the streets of Caracas with demonstrators yesterday in its biggest show of force in years.Protesters filled dozens of city blocks...

Michel Temer inherits presidency on shaky ground

Published:Thursday | September 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):The permanent ouster of deeply unpopular President Dilma Rousseff by Brazil's Senate means that a man who is arguably just as unpopular is now faced with trying to ease the wounds...

Pena Nieto likely hurt by 'ill-advised' Trump meeting

Published:Thursday | September 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):President Enrique Pena Nieto's meeting with Mexico's most disliked man is turning into a public-relations disaster for a leader already struggling with historically low popularity...

Gulf Coast hunker down for TS Hermine

Published:Thursday | September 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CEDAR KEY, Florida (AP):People on Florida's Gulf coast stocked up on supplies yesterday and some set out sandbags as they braced for Tropical Storm Hermine, which forecasters said could strike land as a hurricane...

Rousseff ousted - Senate votes 61 to 20 to remove embattled leader

Published:Wednesday | August 31, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BRASILIA (AP):Brazil's Senate yesterday voted 61-20 to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, the culmination of a yearlong fight that paralysed Latin America's most powerful economy and exposed deep rifts among its people on everything from...

Historic commercial flight from US lands

Published:Wednesday | August 31, 2016 | 12:00 AM

SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP):The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed in the central city of Santa Clara yesterday morning, re-establishing regular air...

President says people hurt by Trump comments

Published:Wednesday | August 31, 2016 | 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP):Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto says the Mexican people have been hurt by Donald Trump's past comments that painted them in a negative light. Peña Nieto told reporters following a...

Hundreds arrested during Caribbean-inspired carnival

Published:Tuesday | August 30, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):London police arrested 454 people during the two-day Notting Hill Carnival as stabbings and drug offences marred the Caribbean-inspired street party.The Metropolitan Police reported...

State funeral in Amatrice honours 37

Published:Tuesday | August 30, 2016 | 12:00 AM

AMATRICE (AP):An Italian bishop issued a sharp critique of the suspected shoddy construction behind the high death toll of Italy's earthquake and warned during a state funeral yesterday that the rebuilding effort...

Prosecution presents case to oust President Rousseff

Published:Tuesday | August 30, 2016 | 1:07 PM

BRASILIA (AP):The lead prosecutor in the trial to oust Brazil's first female president said yesterday that Dilma Rousseff had committed "fraud" in her accounting practices, then came to tears saying she hopes the leader forgives her for causing her...

Rousseff faces senators, says accusations meritless

Published:Monday | August 29, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BRASILIA (AP):Fighting to save her job, suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff told senators yesterday that the allegations against her have no merit and that history would judge the country if she is removed from office."I know I will be...

Permanent ceasefire takes

Published:Monday | August 29, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BOGOTA (AP):A permanent ceasefire took effect in Colombia on Monday, a major step in bringing an end to 52 years of bloody combat between the government and the country's biggest rebel group.The commander of the...

Quake survivors erupt in anger at funeral plan, gov't relents

Published:Monday | August 29, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ROME (AP):Italian quake survivors rebelled in anger Monday over the government's plan to hold a state funeral for their loved ones in an airport hangar in a distant town and let them watch...

Pentagon calls for end to fighting

Published:Monday | August 29, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ANKARA (AP):Turkey warned predominantly Kurdish Syrian fighters on Monday to "immediately" withdraw east of the Euphrates River or face more strikes by Turkish forces that crossed the border last week in Ankara's...