US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday held talks with Saudi Arabia's King Salman about the conflicts in Syria, Libya and Yemen, ahead of international meetings this coming week in Europe on those crises.The visit by Kerry, who also held talks...
LONDON (AP):Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson has compared the European Union's aims to those of Adolf Hitler, arguing that the 28-nation bloc is creating a superstate that mirrors the attempt of the Nazi leader to dominate the European continent....
BAGHDAD (AP):The Islamic State group launched a coordinated assault Sunday on a natural gas plant north of Baghdad that killed at least 14 people, according to Iraqi officials.The attack started at dawn with a suicide car bomber hitting the main...
Crimean Tatars on Sunday celebrated Ukrainian singer Jamala's win at Eurovision with a song that sheds light on their horrific deportations to Central Asia under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin but also hints at their recent treatment under Russian...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia has a "problem" with doping and is "very sorry" that its cheating athletes were not caught sooner, the country's sports minister said. Russia, a track and field powerhouse, was suspended by the IAAF in...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP):More than 60 people have been killed by lightning over the last two days during tropical storms across Bangladesh, local media said yesterday.Most of the 64 lightning deaths since last Thursday have occurred in rural...
ROME (AP):A fertility doctor is under house arrest in Italy after a Spanish nurse told authorities some of her eggs were surgically removed without her consent at his clinic.Last Friday, Severino Antinori was taken into custody by police in Rome....
YAOUNDE (AP):The multinational forces fighting the Islamic extremists of Boko Haram have arrested five of the group's leaders and freed dozens of captive women and children, Cameroon's government announced yesterday.The raids targeting Boko Haram...
WASHINGTON (AP):Back when Donald Trump's love life was tabloid heaven, a Trump spokesman with intimate knowledge of the businessman's personal relationships offered juicy stories about a failing marriage, a new live-in paramour, and three other...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):At least three people were killed and several others injured when two vehicles collided along the Essequibo Coast late last Friday night.The Guyana-based Demerara Waves Online News said that the death toll could rise, and...
LONDON (AP):International politicians and diplomats vowed yesterday to open up corporate records, quash money laundering and end bribery in a bid to stamp out what Prime Minister David Cameron called the global "cancer" of corruption.But concrete...
PHILADELPHIA (CMC):The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said officers from its Enforcement and Removal Operations said several Jamaicans were arrested in a Pennsylvania operation that targeted criminal immigrants.The...
WASHINGTON (AP):The United States (US) tried repeatedly to deport Jean Jacques, an immigrant living in the country illegally, but his native Haiti would not take him back after he served more than a decade in a state prison for attempted murder and...
MIAMI (AP): An online gun auction website yanked George Zimmerman's ad to sell the pistol he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, saying it wanted no part in the deal, but a second site offered to post it. A listing for the...
NEW DELHI (AP):Donald Trump may find it tough to get Republican leaders behind his campaign, but he's got some faraway fans trying to get the gods on his side.Around a dozen members of a right-wing Indian Hindu group lit a ritual fire and chanted...
KENTUCKY (AP):White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday, a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state's steady march towards the...
LONDON (AP):London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he wants to be the voice of the city and not just labelled a spokesman for Muslims.Khan told reporters yesterday that he hopes to be the best mayor ever for London, a diverse city of Sikhs, Jews, Muslims,...
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said he won't demand an apology after British Prime Minister David Cameron called his country one of the world's most corrupt nations.Cameron is hosting an international anti-corruption summit in London today. At...
MANILA (AP):Rodrigo Duterte, the bombastic mayor of a major southern city, was heralded yesterday as president-elect of the Philippines after an incendiary campaign that projected him alternatively as an emancipator and a looming dictator."Our...
PYONGYANG (AP):After a ruling-party congress in which leader Kim Jong Un enshrined his hold on power and his commitment to developing nuclear weapons, hundreds of thousands of North Koreans celebrated with a massive civilian parade yesterday...
LOUISIANA (AP): Organisers of a gun buy-back programme in Alexandria have no idea how many firearms will be turned in for cash, but each weapon might represent a life being saved."If we get five or 10 guns off the streets, that's a potential of five or 10 lives...
ALBERTA (AP):Alberta's premier has declared Canada's oil sands city has been largely saved and said a plan will be put together within two weeks so most of the 88,000 evacuees can return to their homes.At least two...
NEW JERSEY (AP):The winner of the $429.6 million Powerball jackpot has yet to come forward to claim the prize, as the New Jersey store that sold the winning ticket celebrates.Only one ticket matched all six Powerball numbers in Saturday night's...
PYONGYANG (AP):North Korea's ruling-party congress wrapped up its official agenda yesterday by announcing a new title for Kim Jong Un, party chairman, in a move that highlights how the authoritarian country's first congress in 36 years was aimed at...
FRANKFURT (AP):The investigative journalists who reported on a trove of data about offshore companies of the rich and powerful are making the names of 200,000 entities available in a searchable database.The International Consortium of Investigative...
