HOUSTON, Texas (AP):A house overflowing with more than 100 people presumed to be in the US illegally was uncovered just outside Houston on Wednesday, a police spokesman said.The suspected stash house was found during a search for a 24-year-old woman ...
KIEV, Ukraine (AP):Pro-Russian crowds seized two Ukrainian warships yesterday and Ukraine said its troops were being threatened in Crimea as the European Union (EU) considered new sanctions against Russia for its...
HARTFORD (AP):An Ecuadorean immi-grant facing possible deportation said on Wednesday that he hopes to be allowed to stay in the United States after a court removed a felony conviction stemming from a clash with a now-disgraced Connecticut police...
ROME (AP):Italian authorities say they have rescued more than 4,000 would-be migrants at sea over the past four days as the war in Syria and instability in Libya spawn new waves of refugees.The numbers of migrants reaching Italian shores gene-rally rise...
SEVASTOPOL (AP): Masked Russian-speaking troops yesterday seized control of Ukrainian naval headquarters in Crimea after it was stormed by militiamen. Pro-Moscow Crimean authorities also detained the Ukrainian navy commander...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP):The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to strike down an Arizona law that denies bail to immigrants in the country illegally, a voter-approved law that Arizona's lawyers call necessary to...
BOISE, Idaho (AP):Former state Senator Nicole LeFavour hid in an Idaho Statehouse closet for more than five hours as part of her effort to persuade Republican lawmakers to update the Idaho Human Rights Act....
KUALA LUMPUR (AP):Investigators are trying to restore files deleted last month from the home flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing Malaysian plane, to see if they shed any light on the disappearance, Malaysia's defence minister...
ATHENS (AP): Greek civil servants, including hospital and teaching staff, have started a two-day strike against austerity measures imposed under the debt-mired country's international bailout commitments....
A key police ballistics expert says Oscar Pistorius was not wearing his prosthetic legs when he shot his girlfriend, as the athlete's trial continued in South Africa today.
Relatives of the Chinese passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight have threatened a hunger strike if the Malaysian authorities fail to provide more accurate information.
CASTRIES (CMC): National Security Minister Phillip La Corbiniere has hinted that the St Lucian government would not support plans to decriminalise marijuana for medicinal and religious activities.
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, today added Crimea to the map of Russia. In a 40-minute speech, Putin said "in people's hearts and minds, Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia."
TRIPOLI, (AP):The Libyan government yesterday thanked the United States for a Navy SEAL operation that stopped a North Korean-flagged oil tanker from exporting crude loaded onto it by an autonomy-seeking eastern militia.The SEALs took control of the...
SIMFEROPOL (AP): Ukraine's Crimean peninsula declared itself independent yesterday after its residents voted overwhelmingly to secede and join Russia, while the United States and the European Union...
KUALA LUMPUR, (AP): The search for the missing Malaysian jet pushed deep into the northern and southern hemispheres yesterday as Australia scoured the southern Indian Ocean and China offered 21 satellites...
