Published:Wednesday | September 16, 2015 | 11:12 AM
HORGOS (AP):Hungarian police used tear gas and water cannons on hundreds of migrants who broke through a razor wire fence on the border with Serbia yesterday, while migrants prevented from moving through Hungary increasingly began taking a longer...
Published:Wednesday | September 16, 2015 | 11:13 AM
NEW YORK (AP):International jour-nalists who have endured death threats, physical attacks and imprisonment or exile are to be honoured with Press Freedom Awards.The Committee to Protect Journalists' 2015 International Press Freedom Awards will be...
Published:Wednesday | September 16, 2015 | 11:29 AM
UNITED NATIONS (AP):Britain has circulated a draft resolution that would authorise the European Union (EU) to take action on the high seas off Libya against vessels trying to smuggle migrants to Europe.Britain's UN Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told...
Published:Wednesday | September 16, 2015 | 11:38 AM
WASHINGTON (AP):Senate Democrats accused Republicans yesterday of blocking President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the US international aid agency amid the international migration crisis.Gayle Smith's nomination to run the US Agency for...
BERLIN (AP):A European Union court ruled yesterday that Germany was entitled to cut off unemployment benefits to a Swedish family that came to the country to find work but only held temporary jobs for a short time.There has been mounting concern in...
BUDAPEST (AP):Hungarian authorities say they detained 60 migrants for attempting to illegally enter the country's southern border with Serbia by breaching a razor-wire fence.The detentions yesterday came as a set of new laws took effect that are...
KENTUCKY (AP):Clerk Mike Johnston prays twice a day, once each morning and once each night, and asks the Lord to understand the decision he made to license same-sex marriage."It's still on my heart," said Johnston, whose rural Carter County sits...
CANBERRA, (AP):Australia's ruling conservatives ousted beleaguered Prime Minister Tony Abbott as party leader yesterday evening in a change that could signal a different Australian response to climate change and allow for a more moderate agenda that...
VATICAN CITY (AP):Pope Francis warned yesterday that Europe's refugee crisis is just the "tip of the iceberg" fuelled by an "unjust" global economic system forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee war and poverty in search of better lives.In...
MIDDLETOWN, (AP):An explosive wildfire burned largely unchecked yesterday after incinerating homes, apartment blocks, and hundreds of other buildings as it raced through rural communities in Northern California's Lake County, leaving at least one...
BRUSSELS (AP):Germany announced yesterday it expects to handle one million people fleeing their homelands this year, and Slovakia joined Berlin in reintroducing border checks with Austria, underscoring the need for European Union (EU) nations to...
MECCA (AP):Jumaa Ibrahim and his wife, Hasnaa Karam, a Syrian couple in their early 60s, arrived in Mecca on Friday and headed straight to Islam's holiest site, the cube-shaped Kaaba.It had begun to rain in the ancient desert city. Karam, who had...
Kerri Bunker and Kelli Wall know a thing or two about twins.The two women are identical twins who already each have one set of twins. Now, they are getting ready to each have a second set of twins next spring."To have twins twice is incredible,"...
Israeli police briefly clashed with Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site early Sunday, raising tensions in the holy city ahead of the Jewish New Year.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said forces moved into the Al-Aqsa...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- At least 28 people seeking a better life in Europe drowned Sunday as they attempted a wind-swept sea crossing from Turkey to Greece, while a record number of asylum seekers reached Hungary's border with Serbia just two days...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM
Premier League clubs in England are helping Save the Children raise funds for refugees this weekend, with Arsenal donating one pound (US$1.50) from each ticket sold.The appeal was promoted at six games yesterday, with...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM
GENEVA (AP):Migrants have for years taken death-defying trips across the Mediterranean to reach Europe, but the flow has hit record proportions this year notably with an influx of Syrians, Afghans and Eritreans fleeing war,...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 11:46 AM
NEW DELHI (AP):At least 89 people were killed at a restaurant in central India yesterday when a cooking gas cylinder exploded and triggered a second blast of mine detonators stored illegally nearby.The restaurant, located next to the main bus...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 11:55 AM
NEW DELHI (AP):Two trains derailed in India yesterday killing at least four passengers, including two British tourists.Three coaches of a special tourist train went off the tracks near the northern hill town of Kalka. The train was rounding a curve...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:17 PM
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP):High winds were to blame for the toppling of a massive crane that smashed into Mecca's Grand Mosque and killed at least 107 people ahead of the start of the annual hajj pilgrimage, the head of Saudi Arabia's civil defence...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:00 AM
Egypt's government resigned yesterday in the face of intense criticism from state-friendly media that reflects growing discontent but stops short of faulting President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the former general who led the overthrow of an Islamist...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:45 PM
LONDON (AP):Veteran far-left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party yesterday, a runaway victory that threatens to further divide the party as it struggles to recover from a heavy defeat in elections earlier...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:39 PM
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sept 12, CMC - The new Trinidad and Tobago government is likely to present its fiscal national budget on September 28, Finance Minister Colm Imbert has said."I am tentatively setting September 28 for Budget Day, but that...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:32 PM
UNITED STATESPHILADELPHIA (CMC):The United States (US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) agency says a south New Jersey man has been charged with for operating a fake immigration law practice for years, defrauding at least 74 victims,...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP): A towering construction crane collapsed today during a violent rainstorm in Saudi Arabia's city of Mecca, Islam's holiest site, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing at least 87 people ahead of the start of...
