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Massive tax package offers breaks for just about everyone

Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):From finance companies and manufacturers to teachers and the working poor, there is a tax break for almost everyone in the massive package unveiled by congressional leaders.But don't get too excited. Only a few of those breaks are...

Argentine journalist says wife was attacked for his reports

Published:Wednesday | December 16, 2015 | 11:46 AMAP

ARGENTINABUENOS AIRES, AP:The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on Argentina's government to help protect a local journalist whose wife was attacked for his reporting on drug trafficking.Radio journalist Sergio Hurtado tells the committee...

Government still awaiting report on Jamaican women

Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2015 | 12:00 AM

NASSAU, CMC:The Bahamas government said it does not condone the "abuse of any detainee" as it awaits the findings of an investigation into the arrest of 11 Jamaican women earlier this month.Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell told...

30 lives extinguished, but no regrets: A killer's story

Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2015 | 11:20 AM

IGUALA (AP):The killer said he "disappeared" a man for the first time at age 20. Nine years later, he said, he has eliminated 30 people, maybe three in error.He sometimes feels sorry about the work he does, but has no regrets, he said, because he is...

US looking at ways to better screen would-be immigrants

Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2015 | 1:44 PM

WASHINGTON, (AP):Lawmakers are working on legislation to ensure a person's online presence is reviewed as part of the vetting process for a visa to enter the United States.The goal is to close security gaps that didn't pick up on one of the...

AAA: Nearly 3.2 million from Michigan traveling for holidays

Published:Tuesday | December 15, 2015 | 1:50 PMAP

UNITED STATESMICHIGAN, (AP):AAA projects nearly 3.2 million people from Michigan plan to travel for the year-end holiday season.The auto club says nearly two percent more than last year from Michigan are expected to go 50 miles or more from home....

Romanian Senate votes to ban drug ads to stop self-diagnosis

Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 12:00 AM

BUCHAREST (AP):Romanian lawmakers have voted to ban all advertising of prescription drugs and radio and television advertising of over-the-counter medicines in a bid to stop what they said...

Italy seizes 3,500 fake 'Apostolic Blessings' in Rome

Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 11:53 AM

ROME (AP):Police said yesterday they had seized 3,500 fake Vatican parchments that were being sold to unsuspecting pilgrims taking part in Pope Francis' Holy Year celebrations.Rome's financial police seized the parchments, valued at about €70,...

€80 million for housing stranded migrants

Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 12:00 AM

ATHENS (AP):The European Union pledged yesterday to spend €80 million (US$88 million) to house migrants in Greece even as it seeks tougher procedures for asylum seekers travelling to the continent.Kristalina Georgieva, the EU commissioner for...

Guinea's president sworn in for 2nd term

Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 12:00 AM

CONAKRY (AP):Guinea's President Alpha Conde has been sworn in for a second five-year term in a ceremony under heavy military and police security.Conde's second term begins weeks before the West African country...

Obama says military hitting ISIS hardest ever

Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama said the United States military and allied forces are hitting the Islamic State group harder than ever.Obama said the group's leaders cannot hide, and the group is losing territory. Obama also said the US...

Mexico judge sentences two men to 520 years

Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 8:59 AM

A judge in Mexico has sentenced two men to 520 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of 13 young people at a bar in Mexico City two years ago. The victims' bodies were found in a grave outside the city after family members organised...

Women win seats in historic Saudi vote

Published:Sunday | December 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP):At least nine women won municipal council seats in Saudi Arabia's first-ever election open to female voters and candidates, officials said yesterday, in a milestone for the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom."Even if it was...

Fire at Russian mental patients' home kills 23, injures 23

Published:Sunday | December 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP):A fire swept through a Russian home for people with mental illnesses, killing 23 patients and injuring another 23, many of whom were on medication or otherwise unable to walk, the emergency services said yesterday.The remaining 24...

Obama: Global climate agreement best chance to save planet

Published:Sunday | December 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama said the new global climate agreement "offers the best chance we have to save the one planet we have" and credited his administration as being a driving force behind the deal.Obama, speaking Saturday night from the White House...

Now comes the tough part: The world's carbon diet starts

Published:Sunday | December 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP) -- The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won't be easy - or cheap. Nearly 200 nations across the world on Saturday approved a first-of-its-kind universal agreement to wean Earth off fossil fuels and slow global warming,...

IMF welcomes climate change agreement

Published:Saturday | December 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has welcomed the Paris Agreement:"The Paris Agreement is a critical step forward for addressing the challenge of global climate change in the 21st century. Governments must now...

COP21: Nearly 200 nations pledge to slow global warming

Published:Saturday | December 12, 2015 | 2:37 PM

LE BOURGET, (AP):Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change yesterday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution, but imposing no sanctions on countries that don't.The 'Paris...

Trump, Clinton seen as decisive leaders

Published:Saturday | December 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Hillary Clinton stands out from the field as the presidential candidate viewed as most able to win a general election, with 78 per cent of Americans thinking she could win if nominated, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll....

Court rejects race-hatred charge against former president

Published:Saturday | December 12, 2015 | 2:53 PM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP):A Guyana judge has thrown out charges of inciting racial hatred that had been filed against former President Bharrat Jagdeo.The court last Friday found insufficient evidence to support the criminal charge, which had been...

Thousands march in anti-government protest

Published:Saturday | December 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WARSAW, (AP):Tens of thousands of Poles marched in Warsaw and other cities yesterday to protest against the role the country's president and its new conservative government have had in swelling political discord.A new group calling itself the...

Global climate change fight on ... nearly 200 nations approve landmark deal

Published:Saturday | December 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LE BOURGET, France (AP): Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change today, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution, but imposing no sanctions on countries that don't....

Ukraine PM handed red roses and dragged from rostrum during Parliament

Published:Friday | December 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) : Scuffles involving several dozen lawmakers erupted at Ukraine's parliament after one deputy tried to drag the prime minister away from the rostrum. Arseniy Yatsenyuk was giving his report at the Supreme Rada on Friday when...

Final draft of Paris climate deal expected today

Published:Friday | December 11, 2015 | 10:07 AM

The final version of a new global climate agreement is expected to be released today, following talks in Paris, France late Thursday night. There is a widespread expectation that the deal will be signed today. Delegates worked through Thursday...

Opposition refuses to concede defeat

Published:Thursday | December 10, 2015 | 8:43 AM

KINGSTOWN (CMC):The main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) on Wednesday night refused to concede defeat in the general election, accusing the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) of seeking to hold on to power "against the wishes of the people"."We...

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