CAIRO (AP):Egypt's state news agency says that worker strikes have spread across the Nile Delta and southern Egypt, increasing pressure on the country's military-backed interim government.Notaries in the Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh went on strike...
US Coast Guard seizes US$4m in cocaine southeast of Kingston - FLORIDA (CMC):The United States (US) Coast Guard reportedly seized US$4 million worth of cocaine from a 30-foot go-fast vessel with suspicious packages aboard...
NEW JERSEY, United States (CMC):The United States (US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says a retired New York radio personality has been indicted by a US federal grand jury for attempting...
WASHINGTON (AP): Safety researchers expressed concern a decade ago that traffic accidents would increase as the nation's aging population swelled the number of older drivers on the road. Now, they say they've been proved wrong....
KIEV (AP):Fearing that a call for a truce was a ruse, protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines yesterday in Ukraine's embattled capital.
BEIRUT (AP): Two suicide bombers blew up their cars near an Iranian cultural centre in Beirut yesterday, killing at least four people and wounding scores, in the latest in a string of deadly attacks targeting strongholds...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP):Saudi Arabian authorities have deported more than 12,000 migrants held under "appalling conditions" back to their native Somalia, where many now face life-threatening situations, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday....
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BRUSSELS (AP):The European Union (EU) has indefinitely suspended negotiations with the Swiss about their participation in two research programmes in the first indication of souring relations following a Swiss referendum seeking to cap immigration....
Published:Wednesday | February 19, 2014 | 12:00 AM
CARACAS (AP):Fears of more clashes between pro- and anti-government supporters ratcheted up in Venezuela as both sides held demonstrations in the capital yesterday and opposition leader Leonardo Lopez dared authorities to arrest him....
Published:Wednesday | February 19, 2014 | 12:00 AM
BANGKOK (AP):Gun battles broke out yesterday as hundreds of riot police made their strongest attempt to clear anti-government protest sites around Thailand's capital, leaving at least four people dead and 64 others injured.Multiple gunshots were heard...
Published:Wednesday | February 19, 2014 | 12:00 AM
TULSA (AP):An Oklahoma pharmacy has agreed not to provide a drug for a scheduled execution next week in Missouri as part of a settlement with the death row inmate's attorneys.
Published:Wednesday | February 19, 2014 | 12:00 AM
OKLAHOMA, STILLWATER, (AP):Oklahoma State University says its new Mathematics Learning Success Center is helping maths students succeed at record rates.The centre opened in April, and since the fall semester students enrolled in lower-level math...
Published:Wednesday | February 19, 2014 | 12:00 AM
Thousands still without electricity - SOUTH CAROLINA (AP):Thousands of people are still without electricity in South Carolina after last week's winter storm.The electric cooperatives of South Carolina reported about 18,000 customers were...
According to the Russian Textile Businesses Union, more than $4 billion worth of underwear is sold in Russia annually, and 80 per cent of the goods sold are foreign made.
GENEVA (AP):A United Nations (UN) panel warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday that he may be held accountable for orchestrating widespread crimes against civilians in the secretive Asian nation, ranging from systematic executions to torture,...
WASHINGTON (AP): Most Americans with intellectual or developmental disabilities remain shut out of the workforce despite changing attitudes and billions spent on government programmes to help them.
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Caribbean religious and political figures met here on Sunday for a three-hour regional inter-faith service ahead of a forum that they hope will help formulate a strategic plan for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Miranda Barbour, a petite woman with long brown hair, told investigators she met the 6'2", 278-pound victim after he responded to her Craigslist ad offering companionship for money.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP):United States (US) Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called climate change perhaps the world's "most fearsome" destructive weapon and mocked those who deny its existence or question its causes, comparing them to people who...
Police manhunt on for opposition leaderCARACAS, Venezuela (AP):Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday that a police manhunt was underway for Leopoldo Lopez, the hard-line opposition leader behind anti-government...
In a former colonial mansion in Jamaica, politicians huddle to discuss trying to ease marijuana laws in the land of the late reggae musician and cannabis evangelist Bob Marley.
The targeting of foreign tourists was the first to take place in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula in nearly a decade, when a massive bomb devastated a luxury hotel in Taba, killing 34 people,
