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Helicopters pluck residents to safety as rains lash Japan

Published:Thursday | September 10, 2015 | 12:08 PM

JOSO (AP):Raging floodwaters broke through an embankment yesterday and swamped a city near Tokyo, washing away houses, forcing dozens of people to rooftops to await helicopter rescues and leaving one man clinging for his life to a utility pole.There...

Fear, hunger, rain: Migrants battle the elements in Greece

Published:Thursday | September 10, 2015 | 12:11 PM

IDOMENI (AP):As if fear, hunger, thirst, worry and exhaustion were not enough to endure, new trials emerged yesterday for those on the 1,000 mile-plus trek into Europe: torrential rains and thick mud.About 7,000 refugees and migrants, including many...

EU seeks agreement for countries to share 160,000 refugees

Published:Wednesday | September 9, 2015 | 9:28 AM

BRUSSELS (AP):European Commis-sion President Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday called on EU countries to agree by next week to share 160,000 refugees, warning that Greece, Italy and Hungary can no longer cope alone.In an impassioned appeal at the...

More Cuban migrants still risking sea crossings

Published:Wednesday | September 9, 2015 | 9:48 AM

MIAMI (AP):The number of Cuban migrants risking sea crossings to US soil has surpassed last year's tally, even as Havana and Washington have restored diplomatic relations.Coast Guard officials in Miami said on Tuesday that roughly 3,910 Cubans have...

Pope speeds up, simplifies process for marriage annulments

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

VATICAN CITY (AP):Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church's process for annulling marriages yesterday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the procedure.Francis issued a new...

Migrants keep entering Hungary as work on fence speeds up

Published:Tuesday | September 8, 2015 | 10:57 AM

ROSZKE (AP):Hungarian authorities yesterday began busing weary migrants and refugees to a nearby registration centre, defusing some tensions at Hungary's southern border with Serbia. But the human tide hardly ebbed, with a steady stream of people...

Key issues for Myanmar's upcoming general election

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

YANGON (AP): Campaigning kicked off yesterday for Myanmar's November 8 general election, which is expected to be the Southeast Asian country's most credible vote in more than a half-century. A long-ruling junta made way for a civilian government more than four...

Guatemala's presidential election appears headed to runoff

Published:Monday | September 7, 2015 | 10:17 AM

GUATEMALA CITY, (AP):A former television comic was heading for a run-off with either a wealthy businessman or a former first lady in voting for Guatemala's next president days after the Central American nation's leader resigned over a corruption...

West Indian Day Parade in NYC marred by violence

Published:Monday | September 7, 2015 | 10:21 AM

NEW YORK (AP):The West Indian Day Parade which kicked off in New York City, yesterday, has been marred by violence.One man was stabbed to death early yesterday in Brooklyn, and others were wounded by gunfire. Governor Andrew Cuomo said a man...

Down the drain: Canadian candidate out after urinating video

Published:Monday | September 7, 2015 | 10:38 AM

CANADATORONTO, (AP):A Toronto businessman who had been running for Parliament with Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's party made the wrong kind of splash and is out of the race after being caught on video urinating in a coffee cup.The...

Greek former PM Tsipras seeks absolute majority in election

Published:Monday | September 7, 2015 | 10:49 AM

ATHENS, (AP):Greece's former prime minister said yesterday he was seeking an absolute majority for his radical left Syriza party in upcoming early elections but indicated a coalition government would be formed quickly if no party wins enough...

Study: Are we shifting to fewer, weaker Atlantic hurricanes?

Published:Monday | September 7, 2015 | 10:59 AM

WASHINGTON, (AP):A new but controversial study asks if an end is coming to the busy Atlantic hurricane seasons of recent decades.The Atlantic looks like it is entering in to a new, quieter cycle of storm activity, like in the 1970s and 1980s, two...

Merkel to hold talks as migrants stream in

Published:Sunday | September 6, 2015 | 9:27 AM

Chancellor Angela Merkel planned to discuss Europe's migrant crisis with her coalition partners yesterday as Syrians, Iraqis and others fleeing war and persecution streamed into Germany for the second straight day.The Christian Social Union, the...

Independent Group reject Mexican Govt's case on Missing 43

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

An independent report presented yesterday dismantles the Mexican government's investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 teachers' college students, starting with the assertion that the giant funeral pyre in which the attorney general said...

Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire

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

Bernie Sanders has jumped out to a nine-point lead over front-runner Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, and he's gained ground on her among Iowa voters in the Democratic presidential race, according to a pair of brand-new NBC News/Marist polls.In New...

UK says int'l aid budget to be used for refugees

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

BERLIN (AP) -- The latest news as countries across Europe cope with the arrival of thousands of migrants and refugees. All times local (CET):---7 p.m.Britain's treasury chief has said the country's international aid budget will be put to use to help...

Merkel to hold crisis talks as migrants stream into Germany

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

BERLIN (AP) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel planned to discuss Europe's migrant crisis with her coalition partners Sunday, as Syrians, Iraqis and others fleeing war and persecution streamed into Germany for the second straight day.The Christian Social...

Exhaustion, elation as 6,500 migrants reach Austria, Germany

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

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP):Thousands of exhausted, elated people fleeing their Arab and Asian homelands reached their dream destinations of Germany and Austria yesterday, completing epic journeys by boat, bus, train and foot to escape war and poverty....

Japan lifts evacuation order for town near doomed nuke plant

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

NARAHA, Japan (AP):Japan's government on Saturday lifted a four-and-a-half-year-old evacuation order for the northeastern town of Naraha that had sent all of the town's 7,400 residents away following the disaster at the nearby Fukushima nuclear...

Tropical Storm Kevin forms in the Pacific

Published:Thursday | September 3, 2015 | 11:01 AM

MIAMI (AP):Tropical Storm Kevin has formed in the eastern Pacific off Mexico's coast.The storm's maximum sustained winds early yesterday were near 40 mph (65kph). The US National Hurricane Centre said Kevin is expected to remain a tropical storm...

Students ask Education Department to discharge college debt

Published:Thursday | September 3, 2015 | 11:18 AM

WASHINGTON, (AP):Almost 12,000 students are asking the federal government to discharge their college loan debt, asserting that their school either closed or lied to them about job prospects, according to government data released Thursday. Already,...

Guatemalan president resigns in corruption probe

Published:Thursday | September 3, 2015 | 12:00 AM

GUATEMALA CITY (AP):Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigned in the face of a corruption scandal that has brought his government to the brink, and arrived at court yesterday morning to hear the charges against him.Spokesman Jorge Ortega said...

Czech Republic halt trains to Budapest

Published:Thursday | September 3, 2015 | 10:51 AM

At the Hungarian town of Bicske, migrants were shocked to find out that their train was not heading to Austria but to a Hungarian migrant camp. Scores of police in riot gear were there to greet them.The migrants started chanting "No camp!" in Arabic...

Obama gets key vote to protect Iran nuclear deal in US Congress

Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2015 | 2:01 PM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama secured a landmark foreign-policy victory yesterday as Democrats amassed enough votes to ensure that the Iran nuclear deal survives in Congress despite ferocious opposition from Republicans and Israel's...

Bones found during road project may be Spanish flu victims

Published:Tuesday | September 1, 2015 | 12:28 PM

It was a morbid discovery along a Schuylkill County highway - a scattering of human bones, including a leg, ribs, skull fragments, and a piece of jawbone.The bones had been resting below a grass-covered stretch for a century or so as the country...

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