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Merkel is Time's Person of the Year

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 10:12 AM

ANgela Merkel is only the fourth woman to ever be named Person of the Year, after Time opened up the contest to women in 1936. She is the first woman to be awarded the title by herself since 1986.A group of women - Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom, Coleen...

IS Bombers Kill 11 in Turkey

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 10:24 AM

ISTANBUL (AP):A car bomb struck a police vehicle in Istanbul during rush hour on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding 36 others in what marks the fourth bombing to hit the Turkish city this year.There was no immediate responsibility claim but...

Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic nominee

Published:Tuesday | June 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Hillary Clinton became the first woman to capture the presidential nomination of one of the country's major political parties on Monday night, according to an Associated Press survey of Democratic superdelegates, securing enough of them to overcome...

Syrian Children are breadwinners in Lebanon

Published:Monday | June 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM-AP

BEIRUT — Thirteen year-old Ali Rajab is on his feet an average of 12 hours a day, cleaning, filling perfume bottles and helping sell mobile phones at the shop in Beirut where he works. Still, he prefers it to his previous, more physically...

Afghan mineral wealth being looted by Taliban

Published:Monday | June 6, 2016 | 9:29 AM

KABUL (AP):The brilliant blue stone, lapis lazuli, prized for millennia, is almost uniquely found in Afghanistan, a key part of the extensive mineral wealth that is seen as the best hope for funding development of one of the world's poorest nations....

Britain's Conservatives at each other's throats in EU debate

Published:Monday | June 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday accused "leave" campaigners in the country's European Union debate of peddling "fantasy politics" and endangering the economy, as the pound plunged against the dollar on uncertainty about...

Police brutality in Kenya s demonstrators beaten in streets

Published:Monday | June 6, 2016 | 10:48 AM

Nairobi (AP):Police rounded up protesters calling for reform and beat them with wooden sticks in Kenya, firing tear gas on them and flushing them out of buildings where they had hidden.Shocking photos show the extent of the brutality yesterday. In...

Referendum offering money for nothing refused

Published:Sunday | June 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LAUSANNE, Switzerland:Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that would have guaranteed everyone in the Alpine nation an unconditional basic income, according to projections published yesterday by public broadcaster SRF1.The plan could have...

Crime gangs find gays easy targets for blackmail

Published:Sunday | June 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (AP):Criminal gangs in Russia, operating through gay dating sites, have found a lucrative new blackmail target: homosexual men.A St Petersburg economist, one of their latest victims, said several men burst into the apartment...

Muhammad Ali's funeral set for Friday

Published:Sunday | June 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Muhammad Ali's funeral will be held on Friday in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and will be preceded by a public procession.Bob Gunnell, a spokesman for Ali's family, announced the funeral arrangements on Saturday afternoon, less than 24...

Hundreds pay tribute to Muhammad Ali at his boyhood home

Published:Sunday | June 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Andre Watkins shadowboxed Sunday morning outside King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville's west end, not far from the little pink house where Muhammad Ali grew up. All across Ali's hometown, the faithful...

Florida braces for possible tropical storm, flooding

Published:Sunday | June 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Hurricane officials say a storm in the northwestern Caribbean Sea could develop into a tropical storm before hitting Florida with flooding rain. The National Hurricane Center said a hurricane hunter plane will investigate...

Pope scraps abuse tribunal for negligent bishops

Published:Saturday | June 4, 2016 | 12:00 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP)Pope Francis yesterday scrapped his proposed tribunal to prosecute bishops who covered up for paedophilic priests after it ran into opposition. He instead, clarified legal procedures to remove them if the Vatican finds that they...

Journalist dies at hospital

Published:Saturday | June 4, 2016 | 12:54 PM

GEORGETOWN (CMC):The assistant editor of the Kaieteur News newspaper, Dale Andrews, has died. He was 45 years old.Andrews died at hospital from heart and other complications.Editor-in-chief at Kaieteur News, Adam Harris, said he was in "shock" at...

Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali is dead

Published:Saturday | June 4, 2016 | 12:00 AM

AP: He was fast of fist and foot - lip, too - a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did. He floated. He stung. Mostly he thrilled, even after the punches had taken their toll and his voice barely rose above a whisper. He was...

UN asking expert panel to assess Zika risk at Rio Olympics

Published:Friday | June 3, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): The World Health Organization's chief says she will convene an expert committee to consider whether the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics should proceed as planned, following concerns raised about the threat of the Zika virus. In a...

74-year-old US man charged for participation in lottery scam

Published:Friday | June 3, 2016 | 12:00 AM

FARGO, North Dakota (AP): An elderly man from Kentucky who decided to participate in a Jamaican lottery scam after he was victimised was sentenced on yesterday to time served and ordered to help pay back more than US$5 million in losses to other...

FIFA: Blatter, other former officials awarded themselves bonuses totaling US$80m

Published:Friday | June 3, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP): FIFA has revealed that disgraced former officials Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner awarded themselves raises and World Cup bonuses totaling US$80 million over their last five years in office. Some of the...

Syria refugees kept behind fences amid Jordan security fears

Published:Thursday | June 2, 2016 | 12:00 AM

AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, (AP):A barbed wire-topped fence encircles a section of this bleak UN-run camp, isolating thousands of recent arrivals, whom Jordan considers a potential security risk, from other Syrian refugees.This camp-within-a-camp, called "...

Children's asylum approvals vary by US region

Published:Thursday | June 2, 2016 | 9:33 AM

LOS ANGELES, (AP):For unaccompanied immigrant children seeking asylum in the US, where they apply seems to make a world of difference.Youngsters whose applications are handled by the US government's regional offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles...

Restrictions eased on Sri Lankan refugees to get passports

Published:Thursday | June 2, 2016 | 9:54 AM

COLOMBO, (AP):Sri Lanka lifted a ban on issuing passports to its citizens who sought refuge abroad from violent conflict or political persecution, saying the ban issued by a previous government violated the rights of citizens forced to flee for...

Disaster coming without help on Zika fight

Published:Thursday | June 2, 2016 | 10:28 AM

TALLAHASSEE, (AP):Florida will experience a "disaster" with the Zika virus if federal authorities don't immediately provide money to help battle the virus, Florida Governor Rick Scott said on Wednesday.Scott, who had already visited Washington, DC,...

Two persons shot dead on UCLA campus – Los Angeles police

Published:Wednesday | June 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Two people were shot and killed on the UCLA campus this morning, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman. The campus on the city's west side was locked down, and officers with the LAPD and the university's...

Bodies of 40 tiger cubs found in Buddhist temple freezer

Published:Wednesday | June 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BANGKOK (AP): Forty dead tiger cubs were found today in a freezer at a Buddhist temple that operated as an admission-charging zoo, a national parks official said. The discovery happened while authorities were removing mostly full-grown live tigers...

Under water signal detected from black box of crashed EgyptAir plane

Published:Wednesday | June 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CAIRO (AP): Egypt said today that a French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board. The...

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