NEW DELHI (AP):Severe floods that have hit the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu killed 18 hospital patients last week after rain waters knocked out generators and switched off ventilators.State authorities were investigating complaints of...
LONDON (AP): A Maoist cult leader has been found guilty of sexually assaulting his female followers and imprisoning his own daughter in a London commune for 30 years.A jury found 75...
SAN JUAN (AP):FBI agents in Puerto Rico have arrested several former government officials accused of corruption.The agency said yesterday that 10 suspects had been charged as part of an investigation into the alleged exchange of campaign...
CAIRO (AP):The Egyptian president yesterday pledged to punish police officers who make mistakes amid mounting criticism of the force following the deaths of three people while in custody last month.Speaking at the police academy in Cairo, Abdel-...
AKROTIRI (AP):British warplanes carried out airstrikes in Syria early Wednesday, hours after Parliament voted to authorise air attacks against Islamic State (IS) group targets there.Four Royal Air Force (RAF) Tornados took off from a British air...
WASHINGTON (AP):Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has said that he is worried that the mass shooting in California may be an act of what he is calling "Islamic terrorism".The Texas senator made the comment yesterday in Washington at a...
A South African appeals court today convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court's conviction of the double-amputee Olympian on the lesser charge of manslaughter for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death in 2013....
ATHENS (AP):Greek journalists are holding a 24-hour strike a day before a nationwide anti-austerity strike, the country's second in a month, which is expected to disrupt all public services.Radio...
VATICAN CITY (AP):Pope Francis said the world needs a "revolution of tenderness" amid all the news of cruelty and atrocities.The pope also took his church to task in an interview published yesterday in Credere, a Catholic magazine reporting on the...
MOSCOW (AP):Russia's top brass yesterday accused the Turkish president and his family of personally benefiting from the illegal oil trade with Islamic State (IS) militants.The accusations follow Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian...
Eight former employees of a commercial Long Island laundry are splitting a $582,000 settlement from a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the Equal Emplo yment Opportunity Commission in 2012.Newsday reports federal officials announced the...
ISLAMABAD (AP):Pakistan hanged four convicted militants yesterday who were sentenced to death over a Taliban attack on an army-run school last year which killed more than 150 people, mostly children, officials...
SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP): Multiple people were shot today at a Southern California social services centre, and police were searching for up to three gunmen, authorities said. Several law enforcement agencies converged on the scene in San...
HAVANA (AP):The Cuban government announced yesterday it is reimposing a hated travel-permit requirement on many doctors, requiring them to get permission to leave the country in an attempt to counter a brain drain that it blames on the United States...
LONDON (AP):Prime Minister David Cameron called for a debate and vote in Parliament today on whether Britain should launch airstrikes against militants in Syria, arguing that the nation must stand with its allies in confronting extremism.Cameron's...
PARIS, France (AP):Parts of a global climate agreement being hammered out in Paris should be legally binding, United States President Barack Obama said yesterday.The declaration was a boost to climate negotiators seeking a tough accord, and a...
WASHINGTON (AP):Defence Secretary Ash Carter said the United States (US) is expanding its special operations force in Iraq to help Iraqi and Kurdish forces fight Islamic State (IS) militants.Carter told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday...
PARIS (AP):UNITED STATES (US) President Barack Obama expressed optimism yesterday that Russia will ultimately come around on the need for Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave power to end his country's long civil war, but warned the turnaround...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP):Eight candidates in last month's disputed presidential election are demanding major changes in Haiti's electoral system and other agencies. And they said if that doesn't happen, a transitional government should be created to...
LE BOURGET (AP):Addressing the twin threats of global warming and extremist violence, the largest group of world leaders ever to stand together kicked off two weeks of high-stakes climate talks outside Paris yesterday, stressing that by striking an...
UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):A Belfast High Court ruling is expected to ease Northern Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws to make it easier for women to terminate pregnancies in some cases.Abortions are illegal in Northern Ireland except in extreme...
France's interior minister said yesterday that 208 people were detained after clashes with riot police on the eve of the start of a critical climate conference, and that 174 of them were being held for possible charges....
JERUSALEM (AP):A Russian jet recently penetrated Israeli airspace but was not shot down thanks to an open communication system between the two countries, Israel's defence minister said Sunday as tensions continued to flare between Ankara and Moscow...
VALLETTA, Malta (AP):Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday wrapped up a nostalgic visit to Malta, her one-time home, where she joked that Canada's youthful new leader had made her feel old.The British monarch has close ties to the Mediterranean island...
AP - The interim president of Central African Republic has thanked Pope Francis for his "lesson in courage" in coming to the conflict-ridden country, saying his presence showed the "victory of faith over fear." In a welcoming...
