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EU: Some 20 bodies spotted as migrant boat sinks off Libya

Published:Thursday | May 26, 2016 | 9:50 AM

ROME (AP):A migrant boat sank off Libya's coast yesterday, with some 20 bodies spotted in the sea. Officials said 88 people had been rescued.The Libyan coastguard also reported finding four bodies as well as two empty boats, suggesting that there...

New Zealanders to pay $20 for cigarette pack under tax plan

Published:Thursday | May 26, 2016 | 10:24 AM

WELLINGTON (AP):Smokers in New Zealand will pay US$20 for a pack of cigarettes under the government's budget plan released yesterday. Polluting industries will also get hit with higher taxes.In its annual budget, the government forecasts that rising...

Shell to cut at least another 2,200 jobs globally

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2016 | 10:04 AM

LONDON, (AP):Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell said it will trim at least 2,200 jobs globally amid challenging times in the oil industry.The losses are in addition to cuts already being implemented because of the energy company's merger with...

North Korea's UK ambassador rejects Trump's offer of talks

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2016 | 10:13 AM

LONDON (AP):North Korea's ambassador to Britain said on Tuesday that his country has no interest in presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's offer to open nuclear talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Ambassador Hyon Hak Bong...

500 migrants rescued

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2016 | 10:27 AM

18,000 turned away from French borders for security reasons

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2016 | 8:15 AM

PARIS (AP):France's top security official says authorities have turned away more than 18,000 people at the country's borders for security reasons after extremist attacks in November.Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said borders will be...

Refugees keep moving out of Greece's Idomeni border camp

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2016 | 9:19 AM

IDOMENI (AP):Refugees and other migrants boarded buses yesterday on the second day of an operation to evacuate the sprawling makeshiftIdomeni refugee camp on theGreek-Macedonian border.More than 700 police were deployed, but no violence was reported...

St Vincent police probe third murder within a week, 14th for 2016

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2016 | 12:00 AM

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): Police were Wednesday seeking to identify the island’s 14th murder victim so far this year even as Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has blamed the recent spate of killings on illegal drug deals gone awry. Lawmen...

How Clinton can wrap up nomination by June 7

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Hillary Clinton is closing in fast on the Democratic presidential nomination.After losing three of four state contests in May, Clinton has maintained a lead over Bernie Sanders of 271 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses....

Forensic expert: EgyptAir human remains suggest explosion

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CAIRO (AP):Human remains retrieved from the crash site of EgyptAir Flight 804 have burn marks and are very small in size, suggesting an explosion on board may have downed the aircraft in the east Mediterranean, a senior Egyptian forensics official,...

Concern in Haiti over emerging condition linked to Zika

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 11:06 AM

MIREBALAIS (AP):Berny Saint-Sauveur was moaning and incoherent when his family carried him into a hospital in central Haiti. He was unable to move, he later found out, because of an unusual paralysis syndrome linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus...

Puerto Rico seeks power bill increase, sparking outrage

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 11:20 AM

SAN JUAN (AP):Puerto Rico's heavily indebted electric company is seeking a more than 20 percent increase in the island's already high power bills, sparking outrage among many.The Electric Power Authority said yesterday the increase would allow it to...

152 prisoners released late due to staff error

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Staff error resulted in 152 federal inmates being freed after their correct release dates between 2009 and 2014, including three who spent more than an extra year behind bars, according to a report released yesterday by the Justice...

Bill Cosby ordered to stand trial in sex case

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

 NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP): Bill Cosby was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on sexual assault charges after a hearing that hinged on a decade-old police report in which a woman said the comedian gave her three blue pills that put her in a...

Obama signs bill to remove the term 'negro’ from federal laws

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Federal laws will no longer include outdated and offensive terms used to describe minority groups. President Barack Obama signed a bill striking the several terms, including 'Negro' and 'Oriental' on Friday, the...

South African president gets reprieve over graft allegations

Published:Monday | May 23, 2016 | 9:40 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP):South Africa's state prosecutors said they will appeal a court ruling that could have opened the way to corruption charges against President JacobZuma.The decision yesterday by Shaun Abrahams, head of the National Prosecuting...

18 girls killed in fire at school dorm in northern Thailand

Published:Monday | May 23, 2016 | 10:05 AM

BANGKOK (AP):A night-time fire at a dormitory of a primary school in northern Thailand killed 18 girls, many of whom had been roused by a dorm-mate but went back to sleep, thinking it was a prank, officials and the girl who sounded the alarm said...

Phone tap adds to pressure on Brazil's interim president

Published:Monday | May 23, 2016 | 10:18 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):A leaked recording of a phone conversation is adding to pressure on Brazil's acting President Michel Temer.The recording, made public yesterday, shows one of his closest advisers telling a company president that impeaching...

Death sentence from all-white jury thrown out

Published:Monday | May 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The Supreme Court ruled decisively in favour of a death-row inmate in Georgia yesterday, chastising state prosecutors for improperly keeping African-Americans off the jury that convicted him of killing a white woman.The justices...

Two dead as Kenyan police attack electoral reform demos

Published:Monday | May 23, 2016 | 10:50 AMTwo dead in electoral reform demonstration NAIROBI (AP):

At least two people died yesterday when Kenya's police shot, beat and tear-gassed demonstrators across the country who called for the electoral commission to be dissolved due to allegations of bias and corruption.The two were shot dead in Siaya...

WHO head blames 1970's policy failure for Zika spread

Published:Monday | May 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

World Health Organization (WHO) leader Margaret Chan has declared that the spread of Zika is the price being paid for a massive policy failure on mosquito control. Speaking at the agency's annual World Health Assembly, Dr Chan said experts had...

Greece passes omnibus reform bill providing for tax hikes, more austerity reforms

Published:Monday | May 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ATHENS, Greece (AP): Greece's parliament on Sunday passed an omnibus reform bill providing for tax hikes, more austerity reforms and a new privatisation superfund, which will manage almost all state property. There was one small dent in the...

Britain has EU vote on June 23

Published:Sunday | May 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):British voters will decide in one month whether or not to deal a historic hammer blow to European integration by putting their island nation on an independent path outside the European Union.The choice on June 23 is simple: In or Out....

Democrat race heads to California

Published:Sunday | May 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP):The tough Democratic presidential campaign comes to California, the nation's largest state, on June 7, even as Hillary Clinton appears to have a near-lock on the nomination.By some estimates, Hispanics could make up as many as two...

Submarine to search for crashed EgyptAir plane

Published:Sunday | May 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

CAIRO (AP):Egypt's president said yesterday a submarine belonging to his country's Oil Ministry was headed to the site of the crash of EgyptAir Flight-804 in the eastern Mediterranean to join the search for the cockpit voice and flight data...

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