LOS ANGELES (AP):Advocacy groups across the United States have reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are rounding up people in large numbers around the country as part of stepped-up enforcement under President Donald Trump...
SEATTLE (AP):When a judge who helped derail President Donald Trump's travel ban was hit with online threats, the abuse raised safety concerns among jurists across the country, and experts are worried that the president's own attacks on the judiciary...
WARSAW (AP):Hundreds of protesters with flags and banners marched in downtown Warsaw yesterday against the ruling party's plan to enlarge the Polish capital by incorporating 32 neighbouring municipalities.The ruling populist Law and Justice party...
NEW YORK (AP): A 29-year-old New Jersey woman plunged about 30 feet to her death off an escalator inside the famed World Trade Center transit hub known as the Oculus on Saturday morning, police said. Jenny Santos of Kearny was trying to retrieve a...
Kenya's president has declared the drought, which has affected as much as half the country, a national disaster. Uhuru Kenyatta appealed for international aid and said the government would increase food handouts to the most needy communities....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP):A federal appeals court refused yesterday to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travellers from seven predominantly Muslim nations.The panel of three judges from the 9th US Circuit...
BEIRUT (AP):Syria's fronts are on fire despite a ceasefire reached in December between the rebels and the government.Though the two sides sat face-to-face in the Kazakh capital of Astana a month later, the government has...
SANTA ANA, Calif (AP):A report released yesterday estimates more than 2.5 million immigrants in the country illegally live in the metropolitan areas of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, which have pledged to fight President Trump's plans to expand...
BRUNSWICK, Ga (AP):Authorities say that a pot of noodles cooking on a hot plate sparked a fire inside a camper trailer that killed two young children and critically burned their mother and a...
THE VOICE (UK): The Metropolitan Police have launched a #GiveUpYourGun campaign, in an attempt to limit the amount of gun crime in the UK The Metropolitan Police in London, England has launched a #GiveUpYourGun campaign as part of a week-long...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP):A suicide bomber struck an entrance to Afghanistan's Supreme Court yesterday, killing at least 19 people in the latest in a series of attacks on the country's judiciary....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP):Jovenel Moise was sworn in yesterday as Haiti's president for the next five years after a bruising two-year election cycle, inheriting a chronically struggling economy and a deeply divided society.The 48-year-old...
PANAMA PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Panamanian authorities say a 23-year-old United States tourist has been found dead on a Caribbean island.Panama's Civil Defense said the body of Catherine Johannet of New York was found Sunday on a trail in a wooded area...
CHICAGO (AP):An Australian lungfish that entranced visitors to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium for more than 80 years has been euthanised due to old age, the popular tourist attraction announced...
LONDON (AP):The Speaker of Britain's House of Commons said yesterday that he strongly opposes letting United States President Donald Trump address Parliament during a state visit to the United Kingdom.Speaker John Bercow's unusual public...
DOVER, Delaware (AP) :A woman has admitted to killing her weightlifter husband by lacing his steroid injections with antifreeze.Forty-seven-year-old Jamie Baker faces 15 years to life in...
UN: IS on defensive inconflict areas but adaptingUNITED NATIONS (AP):The Islamic State extremist group is militarily on the defensive in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria but is partially adapting by moving to covert communications and recruitment...
BUCHAREST (AP):The largest antigovernment crowds since the violent 1989 revolution that toppled dictator Nicolae Ceausescu succeeded on Sunday in pressuring Romania's new government to repeal a hastily adopted decree that...
IRVINE, California (AP):Iranian-American supermarket supervisor Alan Tahmasebi voted for Donald Trump last year, hoping a businessman would be more trustworthy than a politician.The 35-year-old now...
WASHINGTON (AP):Rebuffed in its bid for a quick reversal, the White House said on Sunday that it expected the courts to reaffirm President Donald Trump's executive power and reinstate a ban on refugees and travellers from seven predominantly Muslim...
LYON (AP):French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen blasted globalisation and Islamic fundamentalism in her closing speech on Sunday of a two-day National Front party conference,...
Look out, Lady Gaga. The pope is joining the Super Bowl frenzy.In a papal first, Pope Francis has recorded a video message that was shown to tens of thousands of fans during Sunday's Super Bowl game between...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rebuffed in its bid for a quick reversal, the White House said Sunday it expected the courts to reaffirm President Donald Trump's executive power and reinstate a ban on refugees and travellers from seven predominantly Muslim...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court denied early Sunday the Justice Department's request for an immediate reinstatement of President Donald Trump's ban on accepting certain travellers and all refugees. The Trump administration...
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkey's anti-terrorism police have detained over 440 people for alleged links to the Islamic State group, the state-run agency reported Sunday. The Anadolu Agency said 60 IS suspects, the vast majority of them foreigners, were...
