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Published:Thursday | October 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama is making plans to talk with Republican lawmakers at the White House in the coming days as pressure builds on both sides to resolve their deadlock over the federal debt limit and the partial government...

Published:Thursday | October 10, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):Britain's advertising watch-dog has ruled that a government campaign urging immigrants who entered the country illegally to go home used misleading arrest figures.The Home Office poster, displayed on vans driven throughout London...

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2013 | 4:00 PM

The charges relate to the deaths of at least seven people during clashes between opposition protesters and Muslim Brotherhood supporters outside a presidential palace in Cairo last year.

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2013 | 9:10 AM

President Barack Obama is having House Democrats to the White House as a showdown over the budget extends into its ninth day.

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

SALT LAKE CITY, California (AP):Wendy and Tom Montgomery went door-to-door in their California neighbourhood in 2008 campaigning for the passage of an anti-gay marriage proposition.

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LAGOS, (AP):A pan-African magazine says Africa has many more billionaires than previously reported, 55 of them worth more than $143 billion including a Nigerian said to be the richest black woman in the world."Move over, Oprah!" Ventures Africa says...

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

VATICAN CITY (AP)The Vatican has put a German diocese on notice that it disapproves of its challenge to church teaching on whether Catholics who remarry can receive Communion.The diocese of Freiburg issued an official set of guidelines this week...

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

AMSTERDAM (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday demanded that The Netherlands apologise for the arrest of a top Russian diplomat, a feud that comes as the two countries, which were supposed to be using this year to celebrate their historical...

Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2013 | 12:00 AM

BUENOS AIRES (AP):Doctors were siphoning blood from beneath President Cristina Fernandez's skull yesterday to relieve pressure on her brain two months after she suffered an unexplained head injury.Experts described the procedure as generally low risk,...

Published:Tuesday | October 8, 2013 | 2:52 PM

It says it now expects global growth of 2.9 per cent this year, a cut of 0.3 per cent from July's estimate. In 2014 it expects global growth of 3.6 per cent, down 0.2 per cent.

Published:Tuesday | October 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ST LUCIA CASTRIES (CMC):The St Lucia police say they are not overly perturbed at possible United States (US) sanctions over alleged human-rights abuses and have been focusing on reducing criminal activities on the island."I have generally said my piece...

Published:Tuesday | October 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ROMANIA, Bucharest (AP): Romanian prosecutors have charged the deputy prime minister and 74 local officials with falsifying voter data in a referendum that failed to unseat President Traian Basescu....

Published:Tuesday | October 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (CMC): After registering "disappointing growth" in 2012, Trinidad and Tobago is poised for a modest recovery in 2013, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. In a statement, the Washington said the economy is reviving ...

Published:Tuesday | October 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others.

Published:Monday | October 7, 2013 | 1:26 PM

At least 22 people have been killed in a series of explosions across the Iraqi capital.

Published:Monday | October 7, 2013 | 9:27 AM

At least 50 people have been killed and scores more hurt in Egypt, in clashes between police and supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Published:Monday | October 7, 2013 | 9:27 AM

In marking World Teachers' Day on Saturday, the officials called for the recruitment of millions of professionals.

Published:Monday | October 7, 2013 | 12:00 AM

The suspected al-Qaida figure nabbed by United States special forces in a dramatic operation in the Libyan capital had been living freely in his homeland after his return there three years ago, his family said.Libya's government asked for an explanation...

Published:Sunday | October 6, 2013 | 5:48 PM

Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 dead, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned into mayhem.

Published:Sunday | October 6, 2013 | 11:26 AM

International inspectors began the enormous task today of destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said.

Published:Saturday | October 5, 2013 | 8:02 AM

Divers are hoping to resume their search for the bodies of more than 200 migrants, two days after their boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Published:Friday | October 4, 2013 | 2:12 PM

A federal law enforcement official says that Carey had been deteriorating mentally for months and believed the president was communicating with her.

Published:Friday | October 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP):Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he's finished with trying to run for president.

Published:Friday | October 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP):Asylum requests from Mexico have surged in recent years.

Published:Friday | October 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM

ROME (AP):A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa yesterday, killing at least 94 people as it spilled hundreds of passengers into the sea, officials said.

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