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A timeline of key events involving Oklahoma executions

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

Oklahoma has one of the busiest death chambers in the country, its 112 executions trail only Texas' 529 since the US Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Centre, which opposes...

Report: More than 58,000 violent deaths in Brazil last year

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

RIO DE JANEIRO, (AP):A report by a Brazilian nonprofit group says last year marked a new peak of violence in the country, with more than 58,000 violent deaths.The report by the Brazilian Forum of Public Security says the previous record was over 55,...

Cameron: I'll get tough in EU talks, make 'Greater Britain'

Published:Wednesday | October 7, 2015 | 9:32 AM

LONDON, (AP):British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed yesterday to get tough in European Union (EU) negotiations, crack down on extremism, make Britain a more equal country, and then resign.In a speech to the governing Conservative Party's annual...

Thousands of drug inmates approved for early prison release

Published:Wednesday | October 7, 2015 | 9:44 AM

WASHINGTON, (AP):Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guidelines that are shrinking punishments for thousands of federal prisoners, according to an...

Michigan Senate OKs changes in police confiscation of assets

Published:Wednesday | October 7, 2015 | 9:59 AM

MICHIGAN, (AP):Law enforcement would have to adhere to new reporting requirements and meet a higher evidentiary standard for seizing and taking ownership of people's property under legislation nearing Governor Rick Snyder's desk.The Michigan Senate...

As Clinton campaigns, complications with her old boss arise

Published:Wednesday | October 7, 2015 | 10:12 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama seemed to call Hillary Rodham Clinton's idea of a no-fly zone in Syria half-baked. Clinton described the president's immigration strategy as "harsh and aggressive". And as Obama tries to rally Democrats around...

Tax hike on humble Greek drink threatens town's future

Published:Wednesday | October 7, 2015 | 10:16 AM

TIRNAVOS, (AP):At Statiris Tavern, the patrons' faces are hardened from a life of hard work, truck drivers, builders, and farmers who have just ended their grueling grape harvest.There's little talk of difficulties at work or the country's financial...

EU offers Turkey incentives to better tackle refugee crisis

Published:Tuesday | October 6, 2015 | 10:52 AM

BRUSSELS (AP):The European Union is ready to offer Turkey new incentives to better tackle the Syria refugee crisis, including money, the easing of visa restrictions and better intelligence sharing.The offer came in an action plan unveiled yesterday...

FDA's new anti-smoking campaign uses hip-hop to target youth

Published:Tuesday | October 6, 2015 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The Food and Drug Administration will try to adapt the sounds, style and attitudes of hip hop into a multimillion-dollar anti-smoking campaign to discourage young African Americans, Hispanics and other groups from using tobacco.The...

Guatemala declares mudslide-hit community uninhabitable

Published:Tuesday | October 6, 2015 | 12:00 AM

SANTA CATARINAPINULA (AP):Prosecutors in Guatemala said yesterday they have opened an investigation into who allowed homes to be built in an unsafe area where a massive mudslide killed at least 161 people.Rotman Perez, secretary of criminal policy at...

US government deports fewest immigrants in nearly a decade

Published:Tuesday | October 6, 2015 | 10:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):The Obama administration deported fewer immigrants over the last 12 months than at any time since 2006, according to government figures obtained by The Associated Press.Deportations of criminal immigrants have fallen to the lowest...

Coast Guard: 1 body found from sank cargo ship

Published:Monday | October 5, 2015 | 9:55 AM

JACKSONVILLE, (AP):In an update on the search for a US cargo ship carrying 33 people that has been missing since it encountered high winds and heavy seas from Hurricane Joaquin, the Coast Guard said it found the body of one crew member from the...

South Carolina flood: Door-to-door searches, swamped roads

Published:Monday | October 5, 2015 | 11:05 AM

SOUTH CAROLINA, (AP):Another day of heavy rain drenched an already inundated South Carolina yesterday as rescue teams went door to door to check on people in swamped neighbourhoods, and authorities surveyed a statewide roadsystem torn apart by...

Belarusian media claim gov't attack on their websites

Published:Monday | October 5, 2015 | 11:47 AM

MINSK, (AP):Belarusian independent media outlets yesterday accused the government of blocking their websites less than a week before presidential elections, describing it as an attack against free press.Most Belarusian media are under either, direct...

New Portuguese minority government brings political tension

Published:Monday | October 5, 2015 | 12:00 AM

LISBON, (AP):Stormy political times likely lay ahead for Portugal after a general election delivered a minority government.Minority governments struggle to survive in the bickering atmosphere of Portuguese politics, and only one has ever completed...

Six Supreme Court Justices, VP Attend Red Mass

Published:Sunday | October 4, 2015 | 12:00 AM

An American cardinal yesterday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Biden, six members of the Supreme Court and hundreds of members of the legal community.Five of the six Roman Catholics on the...

Flooding sweeps East, mind-boggling rains

Published:Sunday | October 4, 2015 | 1:10 PM

Flash flooding intensified in some areas of the East yesterday as days of torrential rain and high winds blamed for at least five deaths, left motorists and residents stranded and forced evacuations and rescues in battered South Carolina.The...

Syria President: Campaign against 'terror' must succeed

Published:Sunday | October 4, 2015 | 12:00 AM

 DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syria's President Bashar Assad said in an interview aired Sunday the air campaign by Russia against "terrorists" in his country must succeed or the whole region will be destroyed. He also accused Western...

Vatican fires gay priest

Published:Saturday | October 3, 2015 | 8:13 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP):The Vatican yesterday fired a monsignor who came out as gay on the eve of a big meeting of the world's bishops to discuss church outreach to gays, divorces and more traditional Catholic families.Monsignor Kryzstof Charamsa was a...

More rain, flooding forecast along soggy East Coast

Published:Saturday | October 3, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Unrelenting rain across the United States East Coast showed little sign of letup yesterday, with record-setting precipitation expected to prolong the soppy misery that has been eased only by news that Hurricane Joaquin is no longer a threat.A flash...

Search continues for ship caught in Hurricane Joaquin

Published:Saturday | October 3, 2015 | 12:00 AM

NASSAU (AP):The United States Coast Guard aircraft yesterday searched in the waters of the south eastern Bahamas for a cargo ship with 33 people on board that lost power and began taking on water as powerful Hurricane Joaquin roared across the...

Mudslide death toll reaches 30, more feared dead

Published:Saturday | October 3, 2015 | 2:19 PM

SANTA CATARINA PINULA (AP):Hundreds of rescue workers using shovels and pickaxes recovered four more bodies early yesterday in the wake of a hillside collapse above a group of homes on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital.The death toll rose to...

US probing bombing of charity hospital

Published:Saturday | October 3, 2015 | 2:26 PM

KABUL (AP):The commander of United States forces in Afghanistan says the military is opening an investigation into the deadly bombing of a Doctors Without Borders facility in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz."While we work to thoroughly examine...

Multiple bomb blasts leaves 15 dead

Published:Saturday | October 3, 2015 | 2:33 PM

NIGERIALAGOS, (AP) -- Several bombs in two locations of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, killed at least 15 people, the National Emergency Management Agency said yesterday.No group has claimed responsibility but the attacks are similar to others by Boko...

Immigrants say about-face on visas costs them millions

Published:Thursday | October 1, 2015 | 11:25 AM

SEATTLE (AP):A sudden about-face by the State Department has left tens of thousands of highly skilled immigrants unable to apply to become legal permanent residents as they had expected to yesterday, even though many have already paid expensive...

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