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UK cops helping with unsolved murder cases

Published:Thursday | December 10, 2015 | 9:00 AM

THE VALLEY (CMC):Local security officials have been working alongside cops from the UK to review four murders committed this year, that are yet to be solved.Three UK police, two of whom are former members of the Metropolitan Police in London, are...

Obama sets public schools on new course

Published:Thursday | December 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):With his signature yesterday, President Barack Obama is setting the nation's public schools on a sweeping new course of accountability that will change the way teachers are evaluated and how the poorest performing schools are pushed...

Who's investigating fake Chinese goods? Fake investigators

Published:Thursday | December 10, 2015 | 12:00 AM

SHANGHAI (AP):Multinational corporations doing business in China face a losing battle when it comes to keeping copies of their products off the market: The anti-counterfeiting industry they rely on is plagued with fraud, making it that much easier...

US customs agents nab nearly 20 pounds of cocaine on flight from Jamaica

Published:Wednesday | December 9, 2015 | 1:16 PM

PHILADELPHIA CMC:The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency said officers seized just under 20 pounds of cocaine that was concealed inside the cargo hold of a flight that arrived at the Philadelphia International Airport from...

A year in, détente with United States reshapes Cuba's psychic landscape

Published:Wednesday | December 9, 2015 | 12:00 AM

HAVANA, (AP):An American flag whips in the wind above the reopened US Embassy in Cuba. Many of the thousands of foreign visitors strolling down the cobblestone streets of Old Havana are booking their stays through Airbnb.At the same time, a surge in...

homeless man wins six-figure lottery prize

Published:Wednesday | December 9, 2015 | 11:19 AM

COLORADO (AP):A homeless man living in one of the country's most expensive places is at least $300,000 richer after purchasing a winning scratch ticket.Homeless advocates in Aspen said Michael Engfors paid $10 for the ticket with a $500,000 prize on...

Jamaica activist brings legal challenge to anti-sodomy laws

Published:Wednesday | December 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP

JAMAICAKINGSTON, (AP):A Jamaican gay rights activist has brought a rare legal challenge to the nation's anti-sodomy laws that criminalise consensual sex between men, the Canadian advocacy group he works for said.Gay rights campaigner and attorney...

Gov't programme fights student hunger in Peruvian Amazon

Published:Tuesday | December 8, 2015 | 12:00 AM

POTSOTENI (AP):Hunger haunts the jungle home of the Ashaninka.Incursions and assaults by loggers, miners, colonists and Shining Path rebels have reduced the lands of the Ashaninka people in the Peruvian Amazon, leaving many of the 97,000 members of...

UK agency: Cyberattack suspects' average age down to 17

Published:Tuesday | December 8, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LONDON, England (AP):Britain's National Crime Agency warns that the average age of suspected cybercriminals has become younger, with investigations in the past year showing that suspects' average...

Extremist attacks displace thousands from Chad islands

Published:Tuesday | December 8, 2015 | 12:00 AM

DAKAR, Senegal (AP):Attacks by Nigeria's Islamic extremist group on the islands of Lake Chad are displacing thousands forced to give up their livelihoods and flee the insecurity, said the Chad...

Trump rejects criticism of his proposal to ban Muslims

Published:Tuesday | December 8, 2015 | 10:52 AM

SOUTH CAROLINA (AP):Donald Trump yesterday stood by his call to block all Muslims from entering the United States (US), even as the idea was widely condemned by rival Republican presidential candidates, party leaders and others as un-American.Trump...

Pistorius hopes to appeal murder conviction in South Africa's highest court

Published:Tuesday | December 8, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP): Oscar Pistorius will try to appeal his murder conviction in South Africa's highest court, his lawyer said today, possibly extending a legal battle that began nearly three years ago when the double-amputee Olympian...

Venezuelan opposition wins legislative voting in landslide

Published:Monday | December 7, 2015 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP):Venezuela's opposition won control of the National Assembly by a landslide, stunning the ruling party and altering the balance of power 17 years after the late Hugo Ch·vez kicked off the nation's socialist revolution.The opposition...

Man in court over London Tube attack; police step up patrols

Published:Monday | December 7, 2015 | 10:24 AM

LONDON (AP):A man who allegedly screamed "this is for Syria" as he slashed a passenger's neck in a London subway station had images associated with the Islamic State group on his mobile phone, prosecutors said yesterday.Muhaydin Mire, who has been...

UK leader to visit flood-hit northern England, Scotland

Published:Monday | December 7, 2015 | 10:26 AM

LONDON (AP):British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday visited areas hard-hit by flooding after record rainfall in northern England and Scotland led to the death of one person and swamped some 2,000 homes.The visit comes amid criticism that £45...

Turkey slams Russian missile launcher 'provocation'

Published:Monday | December 7, 2015 | 10:42 AM

TURKEYANKARA, (AP):Turkey has summoned the Russian ambassador to voice its unease after Turkish media captured images of a Russian soldier apparently pointing a missile launcher as his warship navigated through the Bosporus on its way to the...

Volunteers bringing holiday cheer to SC prisoners

Published:Monday | December 7, 2015 | 10:52 AM

SOUTH CAROLINA (AP):Volunteers are getting together to make sure that prison inmates in South Carolina have a little bit of holiday cheer.Volunteers gathered yesterday at St Andrews Baptist Church in Columbia to help unload truckloads of donations...

China issues red alert over smog levels, schools closed, driving restrictions imposed

Published:Monday | December 7, 2015 | 4:13 PM

Schools in Beijing are to close and outdoor construction to stop after the Chinese capital issued its first red alert over smog levels. The red alert is the highest possible, and has not been used in the city before. Authorities expect more than...

Jimmy Carter's latest Brain Scan Shows No Cancer

Published:Sunday | December 6, 2015 | 1:14 PM

Jimmy Carter's grandson says no cancer was detected the last time the former president underwent a scan.Jason Carter told The Associated Press in a text message that his grandfather "told me that the doctors couldn't find any cancer in his most...

Woman in California Rampage Became Fervently Devout

Published:Sunday | December 6, 2015 | 1:42 PM

SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP):In the final few years of Tashfeen Malik's life, the people around the young woman saw her dress ever more conservatively and urge people ever more ardently to live a devout life.For an aunt in Malik's old hometown in...

Venezuelans vote in Congressional Elections

Published:Sunday | December 6, 2015 | 1:02 PM

Yesterday saw important congressional elections being held in Venezuela, and flights into Venezuela before the polls were packed with expatriates returning home to vote.Working professionals, ambitious students and members of the upper classes have...

France votes amid tensions around attacks, migration

Published:Sunday | December 6, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PARIS (AP) -- French voters are casting ballots Sunday for regional leaders in an unusually tense security climate, expected to favour conservative and far right candidates and strike a new blow against the governing Socialists. Islamic State-...

Muslims in US distance themselves from killers

Published:Friday | December 4, 2015 | 9:26 AM

Muslims gathered at one of Southern California's largest mosques have denounced last Wednesday's massacre, which occurred only about two dozen miles away.About 200 people met at the mosque in Chino last Thursday night for a prayer vigil and to send...

Polls favour opposition as Venezuelans vote

Published:Saturday | December 5, 2015 | 12:00 AM

CARACAS (AP):Venezuelans are stockpiling food and putting off plans as the South American country brims with excitement and dread ahead of today's elections, which could hand the opposition control of congress for the first time since 1998.Once-...

Messy midway: Paris draft climate deal long way to go

Published:Saturday | December 5, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LE BOURGET, Paris (AP):Negotiators adopted a draft climate agreement yesterday that was cluttered with brackets and competing options, leaving ministers with the job of untangling key sticking points in what is envisioned to become a lasting,...

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