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Published:Sunday | March 27, 2016 | 12:00 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP):Pope Francis concluded a bleak week in Europe with a message of hope during an Easter Vigil service on Saturday, saying that darkness and fear must not prevail and "imprison"...

Belgium authorities criticized; 13 anti-terror raids made

Published:Sunday | March 27, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The Belgium government sought Sunday 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 taking four more people in custody. In...

Pope at Easter recalls victims of 'blind, brutal terrorism'

Published:Sunday | March 27, 2016 | 12:00 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis tempered his Easter Sunday message of Christian hope with a denunciation of "blind" terrorism, recalling victims of attacks in Europe, Africa and elsewhere, as well as expressing dismay that people...

Easter Sunday celebration

Published:Saturday | March 26, 2016 | 1:30 PM

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Push for more US troops in Iraq

Published:Saturday | March 26, 2016 | 1:09 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):The Pentagon is moving to increase the number of American troops in Iraq amid strikes that have killed the Islamic State's finance minister and other senior leaders.Defence Secretary Ash Carter said last Friday that the US progress...

Anti-Trump protesters risk backlash in GOP primary

Published:Saturday | March 26, 2016 | 12:00 AM

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona (AP):David Rau wasn't sure about Donald Trump. So the landscape contractor strolled over to the main park in this Phoenix suburb to watch one of the businessman's recent rallies and decide for himself.Demonstrators pulled...

24 of 31 Brussels victims identified

Published:Saturday | March 26, 2016 | 1:39 PM

BRUSSELS (AP):Brussels prosecutor Ine Van Wymersch late yesterday reported that 24 of the 31 victims in the terrorists attacks last week were now identified.He said that 11 of them were foreigners. One was former Belgian Ambassador to the United...

Belgium charges man with terrorist offences after 31 killed in Brussels

Published:Saturday | March 26, 2016 | 12:00 AM

Prosecutors in Belgium have charged one man with terrorist offences arising from Tuesday’s twin suicide bombings that killed 31 people in Brussels. It’s reported that the man, who has been identified as Faycal C, who among several...

British man charged after posting anti-Muslim tweets

Published:Friday | March 25, 2016 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP): A British man has been charged with using social media to incite racial hatred after posting anti-Muslim tweets in the days after the Brussels attacks. Matthew Doyle was charged today after more than a day of questioning by police. The...

Interim President names new prime minister

Published:Wednesday | March 23, 2016 | 10:29 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC):Less than 48 hours after lawmakers rejected economist Fritz Jean as the country's new prime minister, interim President Jocelerme Privert has nominated another person for the post.Professor of administrative law Enex Jean-...

Brussels mourns, Belgium on alert as police hunt suspect

Published:Wednesday | March 23, 2016 | 12:24 PM

BRUSSELS (AP):Belgians began three days of mourning yesterday for the victims of the Brussels airport and subway bombings, and the country remained on high alert as authorities hunted for one of the suspected attackers seen on surveillance video...

UK police condemn Trump's complaint about British Muslims

Published:Wednesday | March 23, 2016 | 9:25 AM

LONDON (AP):A senior British counterterrorism police officer has condemned Donald Trump's assertion that British Muslims are not reporting extremists in their communities to police.Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu told BBC Radio yesterday...

German Cabinet OKs prostitution bill requiring condom use

Published:Wednesday | March 23, 2016 | 9:46 AM

BERLIN (AP):Germany's Cabinet yesterday approved legislation meant to better control prostitution and make life safer for sex workers, a bill that includes making the use of condoms obligatory.Legislation in 2002 that legalised prostitution gave sex...

Belgian authorities search for suspect pictured in Brussels airport

Published:Wednesday | March 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): Belgian authorities searched today for a man pictured at the Brussels airport with two apparent suicide bombers, amid growing suggestions that the bombings of the Brussels airport and subway were the work of the same Islamic State...

At least 31 dead in bombings of Brussels airport, subway

Published:Tuesday | March 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS, (AP):Bombs exploded yesterday at the Brussels airport and in the city's subway, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats. The Islamic State group claimed...

In Cuba, Obama calls for burying 'last remnant' of Cold War

Published:Tuesday | March 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP): Capping his remarkable visit to Cuba, President Barack Obama today declared an end to the "last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas" and openly urged the Cuban people to pursue a more democratic future for this communist...

Controversial Toronto Mayor Rob Ford dies at age 46

Published:Tuesday | March 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

TORONTO (AP): Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died today after fighting cancer, his family said. He was 46. Ford rode into office on a backlash against urban...

Survivor describes blood, dust and chaos in Brussels attacks

Published:Tuesday | March 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): More than two dozen people were killed Tuesday when bombs exploded in Belgium's capital – two at the main international airport and one on a downtown subway train near European Union headquarters. Witnesses described...

At least 13 people killed, 35 more injured in Brussels airport explosions

Published:Tuesday | March 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — At least 13 people have been killed and 35 others injured in a series of explosions at the Brussels airport and metro station. There were chaotic scenes as passengers ran for safety and emergency personnel rushed in to help...

UK's Cameron seeks to quell party feud over welfare, EU

Published:Monday | March 21, 2016 | 9:18 AM

LONDON (AP):British Prime Minister David Cameron is seeking to impose discipline on his warring Conservative Party yesterday, after a Cabinet resignation, ostensibly about unpopular welfare reforms, blew the top off simmering divisions over the...

Millionaires urge New York governor: Please raise our taxes

Published:Monday | March 21, 2016 | 9:23 AM

NEW YORK (AP):A group of more than 40 millionaires in New York state has written to Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo and top lawmakers, calling on them to consider raising taxes on the state's wealthiest residents to help address poverty and rebuild...

Obama, Castro vow new path forward

Published:Monday | March 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raùl Castro tussled yesterday over differences on human rights and democracy but pledged to keep working on a new path forward between their two countries in an stunning diplomatic display.Obama...

Obama inspires black Cubans

Published:Sunday | March 20, 2016 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA (AP):Yolanda Mauri's ancestors almost certainly came to Cuba in chains, labouring as slaves on an island of French coffee plantations and fields of Spanish sugar cane.Her parents became their family's first professionals, graduating with...

Number of migrants continue to rock Greece, Turkey

Published:Sunday | March 20, 2016 | 12:00 AM

ATHENS (AP):Sunday was the day an agreement between the European Union and Turkey on ending illegal migration went into effect - but its implementation still remains uncertain.Greek authorities say they're not sure any migrants entering Greece will...

Bus crash claims 13 students

Published:Sunday | March 20, 2016 | 12:00 AM

MADRID (AP):A bus carrying university exchange students back from Spain's largest fireworks festival crashed on Sunday on a main highway in the northeast, killing at least 13 passengers and injuring 34 others, officials said.The passengers included...

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