FALLBROOK, California (AP):A small plane crashed on a Southern California freeway yesterday and struck a car, killing one person and injuring five others, authorities said.Witnesses told dispatchers that the plane landed on a vehicle on Interstate...
BAKU, (AP):At least 30 soldiers and a boy were reported killed as heavy fighting erupted yesterday between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.The fighting was the worst outbreak since a full-scale war over...
NAIROBI, (AP):Kenyans yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Garissa University attack, when four extremist gunmen massacred 148 people, with renewed criticism of the government's handling of the crisis.Hundreds gathered at the site of the...
United States President Barack Obama has warned that the threat of terrorists attempting to launch a nuclear attack that would change the world is real. He says the prospects of the militant group Islamic State obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of...
UNITED NATIONS (AP):A United States-based advocacy group has disclosed that 98 girls in Central African Republic have reported that they were sexually abused by international peacekeepers, and three girls told United Nations (UN) staff that they...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):South African President Jacob Zuma "failed to uphold" the constitution when he did not pay back some of the millions of dollars in state funds used to upgrade his home, South Africa's Constitutional Court ruled on yesterday.The...
WARSAW (AP):Poland's prime minister and the powerful leader of its conservative ruling party both said yesterday that they support a total ban on abortion.Abortion is currently only allowed in mostly Catholic Poland when the pregnancy poses a threat...
BUCHAREST (AP):Romania's energy minister said that there are more than 100,000 households in the country without electricity or gas or access to public transport.Energy Minister Victor Grigorescu, speaking at a conference yesterday in Bucharest,...
ATHENS (AP):Lawmakers in Greece were ready to support legislation to deport refugees back to Turkey as clashes between migrants persisted yesterday at overcrowded detention camps.A three-hour fight broke out overnight between groups of migrants...
CARACAS (AP):Opponents of Venezuela's socialist administration are preparing for a fight over a congressional bid to give amnesty to activists the opposition considers political prisoners.Venezuela's opposition-controlled congress passed legislation...
PARIS, (AP):UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged governments around the world yesterday to let in more people from Syria, as the global body tries find new homes for almost half a million people who have fled the war-torn country.Ban's appeal came...
PYONGYANG, (AP):It is demand that North Korea has been making for decades: The United States and South Korea must immediately suspend their annual military exercises if there is to be peace on the Korean Peninsula. And once again, it is a demand...
LARNACA (AP):An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane during a domestic flight to Cairo, and forced it to land on the island of Cyprus yesterday, has surrendered and was taken into custody after he released all the passengers and crew unharmed...
WASHINGTON (AP):Florida police have charged Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, with simple battery in connection with an incident earlier this month involving a reporter.Police in Jupiter, Florida, issued Lewandowski a notice...
Cyprus' foreign minister says the Egyptian who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverted it to the island nation appeared to be "psychologically unstable". Ioannis Kasoulides tells reporters it was clear from the beginning of...
NEW YORK (AP):A former president of Honduras pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges yesterday, admitting that he solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the wide-ranging FIFA soccer scandal over lucrative broadcast rights.Rafael...
WASHINGTON (AP):The FBI says it's investigating a computer virus that has crippled information systems at the major Washington-area hospital chain MedStar Health Inc.The virus has affected Washington's Georgetown University Hospital and other...
HAVANA (AP):Fidel Castro responded yesterday to President Barack Obama's historic trip to Cuba with a long, bristling letter recounting the history of US aggression against Cuba, writing that "we don't need the empire to give us any presents".The 1,...
WASHINGTON (AP):A man was shot by police after drawing a weapon at a United States Capitol checkpoint, Capitol police officers said yesterday.He was taken to the hospital.A female bystander also sustained minor injuries.Chief of Police Matthew R....
NEW YORK (AP): A former president of Honduras pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges today, admitting that he solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the wide-ranging FIFA soccer scandal over lucrative broadcast rights. Rafael...
Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif has stressed winning the fight against terrorism, a day after more than 70 people died in a suicide attack in Lahore. At a meeting of security officials, Sharif said the nation's resolve to deal with...
African killer bees attacked a group of sugar workers in Guyana yesterday killing one man and resulting in hospitalisation of another, who said to be in serious condition. The attack happened in the community of Bath Settlement west of the capital...
BAGHDAD (AP):Security forces stepped aside to allow influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to start his sit-in in Baghdad's highly fortified Green Zone on Sunday, after weeks of protests in the Iraqi capital."I am a representative of the...
AMMAN (AP):The World Bank president has announced that Jordan will receive a $100 million long-term interest-free loan to help create 100,000 jobs for Syrian refugees and its own citizens.The loan is part of an attempt by the international community...
BRUSSELS (AP):The Belgium government sought yesterday to contain criticism of its handling of the Brussels attacks, as investigators launched 13 anti-terror raids in the capital and two other cities and took four more people into custody.In central...
