UN says one peacekeeper killed, one injuredKINSHASA (AP):The United Nations mission in Congo says a peacekeeper has been killed amid fighting in Beni territory in the country's North Kivu province.The mission said yesterday that the Tanzanian...
Senate GOP musters final push to erase ObamacareWASHINGTON (AP):Senate Republicans revved up a final push Monday to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law, an effort that faces low odds of success and just a two-week window to pass. Adding...
MIAMI (AP): Hurricane Maria has intensified into a dangerous Category 4 storm as it bears down on the Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday the storm is growing in strength as it approaches land. The eye of the storm is...
MIAMI (AP: Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina is cancelling his speech before the UN General Assembly so that he can return home and coordinate preparations for Hurricane Maria. Medina said in a video announcement that he wants to be in...
THE VOICE (UK): Tanzanian police have confirmed to British media outlets that they arrested 20 people over the weekend, who are accused of being homosexual; a crime that has the potential to carry the punishment of life imprisonment in the...
MIAMI (AP): The National Hurricane Center in Miami says that Hurricane Maria has strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it headed towards the Caribbean. Maria on Monday was "rapidly" intensifying into a major hurricane. The eye is expected...
SOMERSET, N.J. (AP):President Donald Trump on yesterday mocked the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea as "Rocket Man" while White House advisers said the isolated nation would face destruction unless it shelves its weapons programs and bellicose...
LONDON (AP):British police made progress yesterday in their investigation of the bomb that partially exploded on a packed London subway, leading counterterrorism officials to lower the country's threat level because a fresh attack no longer was...
PARIS (AP):Four young American tourists were attacked with acid yesterday at a train station in the French city of Marseille and a 41-year-old woman has been arrested as their alleged assailant, the Marseille prosecutor's office said.Two of the...
NEW YORK (AP):The Trump administration is considering closing down the recently reopened US Embassy in Havana following a string of unexplained incidents harming the health of American diplomats in Cuba, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said...
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Protests turned violent for a second night near St. Louis following the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man, as a small group of demonstrators refused to disperse, breaking windows at...
LONDON (AP) -- The British government lowered the country's official terrorist threat level Sunday after a second man was arrested in connection with the attack on a London subway train where a bomb partially exploded. The downgrading of the...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP):British police made a "significant" arrest yesterday in the manhunt for suspects a day after the London subway was hit by a partially exploded bomb and launched a heavily armed search of a home southwest of London.The fast-moving enquiry...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MIAMI (AP):The hurricane season is roaring on as Tropical Storm Lee forms far from land, Jose threatens the US East Coast and Norma moves closer to Mexico.Norma is expected to pass near the resort-studded southern tip of Mexico's Baja California...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
KUALA LUMPUR (AP):Malaysian police said yesterday they have arrested seven boys suspected of intentionally starting a fire at an Islamic boarding school that killed 23 people because students there had teased them.Kuala Lumpur police chief Amar...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BARCELONA, Spain (AP):More than 700 mayors from Catalonia met yesterday in Barcelona in a show of strength amid pressure from Spain's central government not to hold an independence referendum for the north-eastern region.Political tensions in Spain...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 jolted St Lucia today, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damages. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies (UWI) said that the quake occurred at 6:...
LONDON (AP): Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain's official threat level from terrorism remains at "severe", meaning an attack is highly likely, and has not been raised in the wake of the London subway bombing. After chairing...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): The fate of 800,000 young immigrants hung in the balance yesterday as top lawmakers, White House officials and President Donald Trump himself squabbled over whether an agreement had been struck to protect them -- and...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
HOLLYWOOD, Florida (AP):Florida seniors shuffled out of stifling assisted-living centers yesterday while caregivers fought a lack of air conditioning with Popsicles and cool compresses...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
IMMOKALEE, Florida (AP):Larry and Elida Dimas didn't have much to begin with, and Hurricane Irma left them with even less.The storm peeled open the roof of the old mobile home where they live with...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska (AP):The top commander of United States nuclear forces said he assumes the September 3 nuclear test by North Korea was a hydrogen bomb.Air Force Gen John E. Hyten,...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
COX'S BAZAR (AP):Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border yesterday in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh.The crisis...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was "fairly close" to a deal with congressional leaders to preserve protections for young immigrants living illegally in America but he's insisting on "massive border...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP):An Ohio man convicted of killing two people in back-to-back robberies in suburban Cleveland in 1992 was executed yesterday as family members of his victims looked on.Gary Otte...
