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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Tapped phone calls between ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and prominent public figures suggest that attempts were made to curry favour for the former leader in his judicial woes, according to the magistrate in charge of...

ADDIS ABABA, (AP):Ethiopia's leader yesterday urged the international community to donate more towards emergency food aid for millions of people amid a drought.Ethiopia "should not be neglected by any means despite all the other crises that are...

BERMUDAHAMILTON, (CMC):Following the People's Campaign's call for "an island-wide withdrawal of labour", there have been demonstrations and service interruptions since Friday. Crowds of people gathered again yesterday, which resulted in disruption...

CHICAGO (AP):Billionaire businessman Donald Trump won Illinois' Republican primary and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was victorious in her Democratic race against US Senator Bernie Sanders during a drama-packed election that included...

WISCONSIN (AP):Governor Scott Walker has signed a bill that allows people to register to vote online into law.The governor signed the bill privately at the state Capitol yesterday morning, less than 24 hours after the Senate passed it on a voice...

SAN SALVADOR (AP):El Salvador's president said he is studying a series of measures to combat street gang violence in the Central American country.President Salvador Sanchez Ceren said the measures could include some form of a limited state of...

LONDON (AP):More than 200 lawyers have urged the British government to overhaul a proposed spying law that gives police unprecedented powers to look at the Internet browsing histories of everyone in the country.In a letter to the Guardian newspaper...

WASHINGTON (AP):A new, gloomy intelligence report released yesterday forecasts a sluggish world economy, political unrest and disillusionment with the status quo across the globe during the next five years and beyond.Insecurity will deepen rifts...

PORT AU PRINCE (CMC):Haiti said it has recorded 96 people have died from cholera during the first two months of this year.The Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) said there were also 7, 782 cases of the disease during the period January...

WASHINGTON, (AP):Donald Trump has promised to shred America's trade deals and impose fines on imports from Mexico and China. He's gone so far as to swear off Oreos to protest Nabisco's transfer of cookie production from Chicago to Mexico.By...

VATICAN CITY, (AP):Pope Francis is marking his third anniversary as pope by reinforcing his message of mercy and giving away 40,000 copies of the Gospel of St Luke.Nuns who work in the Vatican's free paediatric clinic and Rome grandparents handed...