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Upsurge in killings rocks Acapulco

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

Acapulco (AP):An upsurge in killings has made Acapulco one of Mexico's most violent places, scaring away what international tourism remained and recently prompting the US government to bar its employees from travelling there for any reason.In...

Egyptian president says submarine headed to plane crash site

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

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's president said on Sunday 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...

The Latest: Senior US commander says Taliban faces 'dilemma'

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

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Latest on the killing of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour in a drone strike (all times local): 3:15 p.m. The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says the killing of the Taliban's supreme...

World Bank Group introducing financing facility to protect poorest countries against pandemics

Published:Saturday | May 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM

SENDAI (AP):The World Bank Group has launched the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), an innovative, fast-disbursing global financing mechanism designed to protect the world against deadly pandemics.This creates the first-ever insurance...

High court rules against NY man denied re-entry to US

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2016 | 9:18 AMAP

UNITED STATESWASHINGTON, (AP):The Supreme Court is making it easier for the government to deport or otherwise remove people who are not US citizens if they are convicted of seemingly minor crimes.The justices ruled 5-3 yesterday that a man who spent...

Judge asked to appoint monitor in immigrant detention accord

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2016 | 11:13 AMAP

UNITED STATESHOUSTON, (AP):Immigrant rights lawyers have asked a federal judge to appoint a special monitor to oversee a longstanding legal agreement on the detention of children caught crossing the US-Mexico border, an accord at the centre of...

Caribbean warned about influx of Venezuelan refugees if food shortages continue

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2016 | 11:33 AM

CARACAS CMC:Caribbean governments have been told to brace for an influx of refugees from Venezuela if food shortages continue.The mayor of the town of Chacao, to the north of here, Ramon Muchacho said that people have been reduced to hunting cats,...

Egyptian plane with 66 aboard crashes; terrorism suspected

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2016 | 11:53 AM

CAIRO (AP):An EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early yesterday after swerving wildly in-flight, authorities said, and Egypt said it may have been a terrorist attack.There were no...

1st Chibok girl to escape Boko Haram to be feted in Nigeria

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2016 | 12:00 PM

LAGOS (AP):The first Chibok teenager to escape from Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest stronghold was flown to Abuja yesterday and met with Nigeria's president, even as her freedom adds pressure on the government to do more to rescue 218 other missing...

UPDATE: Terrorism suspected in crash of EgyptAir jetliner; 66 missing

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2016 | 12:00 AM

 CAIRO (AP): An EgyptAir jetliner en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard swerved wildly in flight and crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early today, authorities said. Egyptian and Russian officials said it may have been brought...

Magnitude 6.7 earthquake reported in Ecuador

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2016 | 9:57 AM

QUITO (AP):A powerful 6.7-magnitude aftershock early yesterday rattled Ecuador near the Pacific coast area where a devastating earthquake hit a month ago, knocking out power and scaring still-traumatised residents as they slept, but only limited...

Venezuela opposition rejects Maduro's state of emergency

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2016 | 12:01 PM

CARACAS (AP):Venezuelan opposition leaders are rejecting a 60-day state of emergency declared by President Nicolas Maduro.Maduro declared the state of emergency over the weekend, giving himself decree powers to intervene in the economy and protect...

Thousands of underage migrants live in shadows across Europe

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2016 | 9:09 AM

Outside the train station in Rome, teen migrants sell drugs from school backpacks and trade sex for cash or clothes. In the capital of Sweden, they steal food from supermarkets and sleep on the streets. From makeshift camps along the northern French...

Over 200 families feared buried by landslides in Sri Lanka

Published:Wednesday | May 18, 2016 | 9:40 AM

ELANGAPITIYA VILLAGE (AP):Soldiers and police used sticks and bare hands yesterday to dig through enormous piles of mud covering houses in three villages hit by massive landslides in central Sri Lanka, with hundreds of families reported missing.By...

President firm on 'labour' bill in face of protests

Published:Tuesday | May 17, 2016 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP):Tear gas briefly choked a Left Bank neighbourhood and truckers blocked highways in Provence and Normandy in new tensions over a French labour bill yesterday, but the president insisted that he won't abandon the contested reform....

Turkey's parliament debating government-backed immunity bill

Published:Tuesday | May 17, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ISTANBUL (AP):Turkey's parliament held a session to debate a government-backed bill that would strip some legislators of their immunity from prosecution.The ruling party's proposed constitutional amendment would pave the way for the trial of...

Senate likely to advance $1.1 billion in Zika funding

Published:Tuesday | May 17, 2016 | 11:48 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):After a three-month delay, the Senate is acting on President Barack Obama's request for money to combat the Zika virus.The Senate voted yesterday on three competing plans to battle the virus, with a bipartisan plan that cuts Obama's...

UW researchers test drug to see if it extends a dog's life

Published:Tuesday | May 17, 2016 | 12:18 PM

SEATTLE (AP):Researchers at the University of Washington are testing a drug to see if it would extend a dog's life. The drug, rapamycin, has lengthened the lives of laboratory mice. The long-term aim of the research is to find ways to treat...

More people evacuated from Fort McMurray, Canada

Published:Tuesday | May 17, 2016 | 11:56 AM

Around 12,000 people have been urged to leave Canada's oil sands camps near the fire-hit town of Fort McMurray as a resurgent wildfire heads towards them. The BBC is reporting that a regional official says 8,000 people were given precautionary...

Trump says he expects poor relationship with UK leader

Published:Monday | May 16, 2016 | 9:37 AM

LONDON (AP):US presidential candidate Donald Trump said he may have a poor relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron in light of the British leader's criticism of Trump's call for all Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the United...

Afghan capital locked down for large minority Hazara rally

Published:Monday | May 16, 2016 | 9:41 AM

KABUL (AP):Tens of thousands of Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras marched yesterday through downtown Kabul, demanding the government reroute a planned power line through their poverty-stricken province so they can get more access to electricity. The...

Cocaine destined for Caribbean seized

Published:Monday | May 16, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BOGOTA (AP):Colombian authorities said they've made the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of a country long plagued by traffic in the drug.The National Police agency said on the weekend that 50 commandos backed by helicopters seized about eight...

Guyana cracking down on contraband in prisons

Published:Monday | May 16, 2016 | 10:41 AM

GEORGETOWN (AP):The South American nation of Guyana is trying to impose more order on its overcrowded prison system following an uptick of people hurling contraband to inmates in recent days.Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said yesterday that...

Cancer patient receives first penis transplant in US

Published:Monday | May 16, 2016 | 10:52 AM

BOSTON (AP):A cancer patient received the first penis transplant in the United States and is recovering well from the delicate surgery, doctors said yesterday.Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted penis in a 15-hour...

Cancer patient receives first penis transplant

Published:Monday | May 16, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BOSTON (AP): A cancer patient received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said. Massachusetts General Hospital confirmed today that Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted penis in a 15-...

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