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Honduras seizes assets of prominent family accused of money laundering

Published:Thursday | October 15, 2015 | 12:00 AM

TEGUCIGALPA, (AP): The Honduran government earlier this week seized 19 businesses belonging to Grupo Continental and five homes of company vice-president Jaime Rosenthal and two other relatives accused by the United States (US) of money laundering.The government said...

Ugandan police put opposition leader under house arrest

Published:Thursday | October 15, 2015 | 11:04 AM

KAMPALA, (AP):An opposition leader in Uganda who is running for president is under house arrest to prevent him from holding rallies that have been called illegal by the government, a police spokeswoman said.Kiiza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic...

Guyana to install hundreds of cameras to fight crime

Published:Thursday | October 15, 2015 | 11:12 AM

GEORGETOWN, (AP):The South American nation of Guyana is preparing to install hundreds of closed-circuit TV cameras in its capital to crack down on crime.Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said yesterday that at least 300 cameras would be set...

Oscar Pistorius to be released on parole Tuesday

Published:Thursday | October 15, 2015 | 12:00 AM

South Africa's Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole next Tuesday a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.  The department of correctional services said in a statement today...

Big influx of migrants brings challenges for German schools

Published:Wednesday | October 14, 2015 | 6:50 AM

The nine-year-old twins from Syria are among nearly 400,000 children among a wave of up to one million migrants expected in Germany this year alone. All around the country, schools have added extra teachers and "welcome classes" to teach kids like...

Condition of hospitalized Ebola nurse in UK worsens

Published:Wednesday | October 14, 2015 | 9:57 AM

Condition of Ebolanurse in UK worsensLONDON, (AP):London's Royal Free Hospital said the condition of a nurse being treated for complications resulting from Ebola has worsened.The hospital said in a statement yesterday that Pauline Cafferkey is now...

Peru military fails to act as narco planes fly freely

Published:Wednesday | October 14, 2015 | 12:00 AM

It happens about four times a day, right under the nose of Peru's military: A small single-engine plane drops onto a dirt airstrip in the world's number one coca-growing valley, delivers a bundle of cash, picks up more than 300 kilos of cocaine and...

Officials seize more than half-ton of coke near Martinique

Published:Tuesday | October 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

FORT-DE-FRANCE, (AP):Authorities in the French Caribbean island of Martinique sad they have seized 1,180 pounts (535 kilograms) of cocaine destined for Europe.Officials said in a statement yesterday that the drugs were found aboard a Belgium-flagged...

St Louis archbishop issues statement supporting immigrants

Published:Tuesday | October 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

ST LOUIS, (AP):St Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson issued a pastoral statement Monday in support of immigrants and refugees, citing concerns about what he called "the language and rhetoric of discrimination, hate and alienation".Carlson's statement...

Britain scraps prison deal with Saudi Arabia

Published:Tuesday | October 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LONDON, (AP):The UK government yesterday pulled out of a £5.9-million deal to sell prison expertise to Saudi Arabia that had drawn opposition from rights groups and senior politicians.Prime Minister David Cameron's office said Britain had withdrawn...

Pentagon team scouts Colorado sites for Guantanamo prisoners

Published:Tuesday | October 13, 2015 | 10:07 AM

MIAMI, (AP):A team of Pentagon officials is in Colorado to scout potential sites to hold prisoners from the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The Pentagon said the visits are informational and no sites have been selected. The military needs an...

Less skin says Playboy, magazine to cut naked photos of women

Published:Tuesday | October 13, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Playboy is about to find out how many people really do read it for the articles. The magazine that helped usher in the sexual revolution in the 1950s and '60s by bringing nudity into America's living rooms — or at...

Obama: Clinton made mistake, didn't harm national security

Published:Monday | October 12, 2015 | 5:56 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct government business when she served as secretary of state was a mistake, but it didn't endanger national security, President Barack Obama said during an interview...

No surprise: Lukashenko wins Belarus presidential race

Published:Monday | October 12, 2015 | 6:17 AM

MINSK (AP):In a development that surprised no one, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was declared the winner of a fifth term yesterday following an election campaign boycotted by the opposition.Lukashenko won 83.5 per cent of the vote,...

Nepal's new premier names protest group leaders as deputies

Published:Monday | October 12, 2015 | 6:29 AM

KATHMANDU (AP):Nepal's new prime minister took the oath of office yesterday and appointed the leaders of groups that are protesting the new constitution as his deputies.Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli appointed Bijaya Gachchedar, who leads one of...

Orphaned sisters reunite decades later working at hospital

Published:Monday | October 12, 2015 | 5:58 AM

FLORIDA, (AP):Two orphaned sisters separated decades ago in Korea have been reunited after miraculously getting hired on the same floor of a southwest Florida hospital.Holly Hoyle O'Brien was adopted by an American couple in 1978 when she was nine...

Qatar energy minister says oil prices have bottomed out

Published:Sunday | October 11, 2015 | 1:41 PM

DOHA, Qatar (AP):Qatar's energy minister says he believes that oil prices have bottomed out ahead of an expected meeting of OPEC members and other oil producers later this month.Energy and Industry Minister Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada said in a...

Salt Lake City may name street for gay civil rights leader

Published:Sunday | October 11, 2015 | 1:36 PM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP):Salt Lake City could soon have a street named after pioneering gay leader Harvey Milk, an idea that reflects the progressive bent of the city that's home to the Mormon church and capital of a conservative state.City officials say...

Cows and politics ... Beef grows more political in India

Published:Sunday | October 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM

NEW DELHI (AP):The legislator was full of outrage when he arrived in the north Indian village days after the killing of a Muslim farmer who was rumored to have slaughtered cows.A Hindu mob had smashed through the heavy wooden door to the man's home...

No new taxes ... Merkel says cess for migrant care not necessary

Published:Sunday | October 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM

BERLIN (AP):Germany will not have to raise taxes to help pay for the hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants who have been flooding into the country, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview released yesterday, and the government...

Aerosmith frontman asks Donald Trump to stop using song

Published:Sunday | October 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP):Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad Dream On at campaign events.Attorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-desist letter to Trump's campaign...

Gaza official says Israeli airstrike kills mother and child

Published:Sunday | October 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli airstrike killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 2-year-old daughter in Gaza Sunday, a Gaza health official said, while in the West Bank, police said a Palestinian woman detonated an explosive in her car at a...

Scuffles break out as police hold back Turkish mourners

Published:Sunday | October 11, 2015 | 12:00 AM

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Scuffles broke out Sunday in the Turkish capital as police used tear gas to prevent pro-Kurdish politicians and other mourners from laying carnations at the site of two suspected suicide bombings that killed 95 people and...

Britain urges EU to speed up migrant deportation

Published:Thursday | October 8, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LUXEMBOURG, (AP):Britain urged the European Union yesterday to speed the deportation of people who do not qualify for asylum as the EU struggles with its biggest refugee emergency in decades.More than 500,000 people have arrived this year seeking...

Kosovo political opposition disrupts Parliament sitting

Published:Thursday | October 8, 2015 | 12:00 AM

PRISTINA (AP):Opposition lawmakers in Kosovo disrupted Parliament's session yesterday, using tear gas and whistles to protest the government's recent EU-sponsored deal with Serbia giving the country's Serb-majority areas greater powers.The...

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