MINAMIASO (AP):Japan's southern quake-hit area was rattled by a strong aftershock yesterday and searchers found a woman's body buried under landslide rubble, raising the death toll from the twin earthquakes to 45.More than 100,000 evacuees, some...
MANTA (AP):Rescuers are in a race against time to find survivors from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake as the death toll from Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades has risen above 400.On Monday, teams from Ecuador and neighbouring countries...
LOS ANGELES (AP):The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the US border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show.The government has long said...
BUSAN, (AP):The 14-year-old boy in the black school jacket stared at his sneakers, his heart pounding, as the policeman accused him of stealing a piece of bread.Even now, more than 30 years later, Choi Seung-woo weeps when he describes all that...
UNITED STATESWASHINGTON, (AP):Earth's record heat streak has hit a record 11 months.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said March's average global temperature of 54.9 degrees was not only the hottest March, but continues a record...
BRASILIA (AP):Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff yesterday appeared on the verge of losing office after a congressional vote to impeach her and with seemingly slipping support in the Senate, which would vote on whether to remove the leftist leader...
BAGHDAD (AP):The United States has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, US defence officials said yesterday.The decisions...
PORTOVIEJO (AP):Rescuers and aid from all over the world flooded Ecuador yesterday as survivors start a second day in towns flattened by the quake, and the search for people trapped beneath the rubble continues.Ecuador's Foreign Affairs Minister...
KINGSTON (CMC): Jamaica will be represented at a three-day United Nations (UN) General Assembly Special Session on the 'World Drug Problem' in New York, which begins today.Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith is leading the delegation that...
Rescuers and aid from all over the world are flooding into Ecuador as survivors start a second day in towns flattened by the quake, and the search for people trapped beneath the rubble continues. Ecuador's Foreign Affairs Minister Guillaume...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP): Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff today appeared on the verge of losing office after a congressional vote to impeach her and with seemingly slipping support in the Senate, which would vote on whether to remove the leftist...
A 1,700-year-old Shinto shrine in southern Japan remains a place of moral support after two deadly earthquakes struck the region, despite being heavily damaged itself.Aso Shrine's iconic wooden gate lies mangled on the ground. The main prayer hall...
BRUSSELS:Thousands of people have rallied in Brussels for a 'march against hate' in the wake of the suicide bombings in the city last month which killed 32 people.Police said on Sunday that around 6,500 people had taken part. No incidents were...
PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) -- The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. President Rafael Correa said at least 233 people had died and rescuers were struggling to reach...
MINAMIASO, Japan (AP) -- Eleven people remained missing Sunday in southern Japan from two powerful earthquakes that killed 41 people, as the U.S military announced it was preparing to join relief efforts and Toyota said it would suspend nearly all...
MIAMI, Florida:The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has condemned and called for an end to harassment of Ecuadorean journalists who collaborated in the Panama Papers international investigation after President Rafael Correa made public their...
ROME (AP):Pope Francis says his gesture was "a drop of water in the sea" of Europe's migration crisis, but for 12 Syrian refugees, the pope's decision to fly them back to Italy from Greece is an act of kindness that will resonate for the rest of...
OZU, (AP):The wooden home barely withstood the first earthquake. An even stronger one the next night dealt what might have been the final blow - if not to the house, then to the Tanaka family's peace of mind.The Tanakas joined about 50 other...
MEXICOMEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's defence secretary formally apologised to the country yesterday for a video-recorded incident of torture involving two soldiers and a federal police officer.The defence secretary addressed a sea of green-uniformed...
NEWARK (CMC):The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said officers from its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Newark Field Office have arrested several Caribbean nationals in an operation targeting sex offenders of...
TOKYO (AP):Rescuers in southern Japan were searching for trapped residents in at least two dozen collapsed houses after a powerful 6.5 earthquake struck yesterday evening with a force that knocked out power and water and swept people off their...
The United States Government has warned regional countries offering the citizenship by investment programme (CIP), to refrain from issuing "unless the issuing government is confident beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual is a bona fide...
RIO DE JANEIRO, (AP):President Dilma Rousseff's chances of surviving impeachment are growing slimmer now that three parties have decamped from her governing coalition in 24 hours and Brazilian legislators begin preparing for a crucial vote on the...
TOKYO (AP): At least two people were killed and 45 injured by a magnitude-6.5 earthquake that knocked down houses and buckled roads in southern Japan on Thursday night (Japan time). Both victims are from the hardest-hit town of Mashiki, about 15...
