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Published:Tuesday | November 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

MIAMI (AP):University of Miami law students say they are being denied full access to immigrants held at the Glades County Detention Center.The students say the Glades County Sheriff's Office that runs the centre cuts short client meetings and requires...

Published:Tuesday | November 26, 2013 | 12:00 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):Even though he insists that he has no desire to return to 'electoral politics', former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday is seeking election as chairman of the ruling United National Congress (UNC).He is also calling for a change in the...

Published:Monday | November 25, 2013 | 1:13 PM

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said Syria's government and opposition will for the first time attend peace talks – in Geneva on January 22.

Published:Monday | November 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP): Dennis Rodman is at the top of a list no one wants to be on. He's been named GQ's No. 1 least influential celebrity of 2013...

Published:Monday | November 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Afghan President Hamid Karzai holds a copy of a weekly security report during the last day of the Loya Jirga in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday.

Published:Monday | November 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they are sceptical that Iran will stick to a new nuclear deal and want Congress to prepare beefed up economic penalties to hit Tehran if the accord falls apart.In an early morning announcement,...

Published:Monday | November 25, 2013 | 12:00 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP):The Vatican publicly unveiled a handful of bone fragments purportedly belonging to St Peter on Sunday, reviving the scientific debate and tantalising mystery over whether the relics found in a shoe box truly belong to the first...

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 5:24 PM

In an early morning announcement, Tehran agreed Sunday to a six-month pause of its nuclear program while diplomats continue talks aimed at preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 11:40 AM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now has little choice but to accept an agreement that that he has derided as deeply flawed.

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP):The son of one of the world's most-wanted drug lords was arrested at an Arizona border crossing to face drug-trafficking charges in the United States, authorities said last Friday.

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LAS VEGAS (AP):The Western United States (US) has been drenched by a powerful storm system that blasted several states and has led to four deaths.

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

MANILA, (AP):The death toll from one of the strongest typhoons on record could exceed 6,000.

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP:While an anguished United States slept in the hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago, flames tore through a nursing home in rural northern Ohio, killing 63 people in what remains one of the worst such fires in America's history.

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

CAIRO (AP):Egypt downgraded diplomatic relations with Turkey yesterday and expelled its ambassador from Cairo, a sharp escalation in tensions between the two countries that mounted after a military coup ousted the country's Islamist president this...

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

TEGUCIGALPA (AP):The last thing Honduras needs is a presidential election that's a draw.

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ALFRED, Maine (AP):The Zumba instructor who ran a prostitution business in which she videotaped unsuspecting clients so her business partner could watch from his office 100 miles away has been released from jail, bringing to a close a scandal featuring...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2013 | 11:06 AM

Forty-seven persons are now dead including three firefighters after the roof of a supermarket caved in, in Riga, Latvia yesterday evening.

Published:Friday | November 22, 2013 | 12:00 AM

CAPE CORAL, (AP): Florida-based Republican Henry 'Trey' Radel disclosed on Wednesday that he is taking a leave of absence from Congress and donating his salary to charity after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession and receiving a...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2013 | 12:00 AM

SAN JUAN (CMC): The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says the former commissioner of the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department has been sentenced to 10 years in jail followed by 15 years of supervised release for...

Published:Friday | November 22, 2013 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP):Wilver Cuevas Betances was born in the Dominican Republic and never left until he ran into some soldiers at a bus station in Santo Domingo who demanded his passport."I don't have a passport.

Published:Friday | November 22, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Man convicted of arranging phony marriagesLOS ANGELES (AP):A Los Angeles man has been found guilty of arranging phony marriages for Nigerians in order for them to become permanent United States (US) residents.

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2013 | 2:51 PM

Three women have been freed after spending 30 years in captivity in a south London home police said today.

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2013 | 9:17 AM

Talks between world powers and Iran to secure a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme have resumed in Geneva.

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM

SPRING CITY, PENNSYLVANNIA (AP):Frank Schaefer gets to keep calling himself a Methodist pastor, at least for the next 30 days.The United Methodist clergyman convicted of breaking church law ...

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP):Northern Ireland's top legal official says police should end their investigations into killings committed before the 1998 peace agreement, arguing they are wasteful and increasingly futile.Yesterday's declaration by...

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