A newspaper analysis shows the South Carolina attorney general has initiated no prosecutions involving about 400 complaints of price gouging by businesses during Hurricane Matthew.Records obtained by The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette show...
Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the Russians have given "virtually zero" support to the United States in fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.Carter told NBC's 'Meet the...
Israeli media on Sunday reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to negotiate a deal for more positive coverage by a major Israeli newspaper two years ago.Netanyahu has been questioned by police twice about allegations that he...
A South Korean Buddhist monk is in critical condition after setting himself on fire to protest the country's settlement with Japan on compensation for wartime sex slaves, officials said...
Prosecutors in Mexico said Sunday they caught a gunman who shot an official of the US consulate in the western city of Guadalajara.The Attorney General's Office of the western state of Jalisco said on...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia tried to interfere in the American presidential election, his incoming White House Chief of staff said Sunday. "I think he...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- While investigators try to figure out the motive of an Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travellers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida, the suspected gunman was charged and could...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Latest on a truck-ramming attack in Jerusalem that killed at least four Israelis (all times local): 5:15 p.m. Israel's prime minister says the Palestinian attacker in a deadly Jerusalem truck ramming was a supporter of the...
FORT LAUDERDALE (AP):Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport reopened yesterday morning following the terminal shooting that left five people dead and eight wounded last Friday.Officials said on Twitter the airport reopened for commercial...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP):Heavy gunfire erupted yesterday at a military camp in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city, a sign that a mutiny could be escalating despite government efforts to bring it to a swift end.Shooting also took place for a second...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP): Law enforcement officials say the gunman in a deadly Florida airport shooting had a semi-automatic handgun, and they expect to release charges against him this afternoon. Authorities say Army veteran Esteban Santiago...
Israel halts US$6 million to UN to protest settlements voteUNITED NATIONS (AP):Israel announced Friday it is cutting approximately US$6 million in its annual dues to the United Nations this year to protest last month's Security Council resolution...
President urges Trump not to move US EmbassyBETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP):Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is urging Donald Trump not to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.Abbas on Friday invited Trump to visit and said "We call on you not to implement...
PHOENIX (AP):President Barack Obama has decided against creating a national monument covering areas of public land around Grand Canyon National Park, an Arizona congressman said Friday.Democrat Raul Grijalva said White House Council on Environmental...
STOCKHOLM (AP):One of the Swedish royal family's palaces is haunted - but the phantoms are "pretty friendly," said Queen Silvia."There are ghosts, many," Silvia said of the Drottningholm Palace in a...
PARIS (AP):French authorities started slaughtering ducks in the main foie gras-producing region on Thursday to try to contain a dangerous form of bird flu.Operations to destroy the birds got under way...
WASHINGTON, DC (AP):The nation's top intelligence official said yesterday that Russia undoubtedly interfered in America's 2016 presidential election but stopped short of the explosive description of "an act of war", telling lawmakers such a call is...
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP):Chicago police do not believe a man beaten in an assault broadcast live on Facebook was targeted because he was white, despite profanities made by the accused...
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP):Pledges by President Barack Obama and a national non-profit organisation to end homelessness among veterans did not meet their goal, but advocates see bright spots...
THE VOICE (UK): A key policy adviser to late prime minister Margaret Thatcher claimed that the black community’s use of cannabis was so widespread that it was given to babies and young children Carolyn Sinclair, who later headed up a...
NICE (AP):A French activist farmer faces up to five years in prison as he goes on trial accused of helping African migrants cross the border from Italy.The case has called attention to residents of the...
NEW DELHI (AP):Police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore detained at least six suspects Wednesday after several women said they were groped and molested during New Year's Eve celebrations in the city that is...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Barack Obama is calling during his last meeting with US military leaders for a "seamless passing of the baton" to President-elect Donald Trump.The commander in chief was meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the...
TEL AVIV (AP):An Israeli soldier was convicted of manslaughter yesterday in the deadly shooting of an incapacitated Palestinian attacker, capping a nine-month saga that has deeply divided the...
BERLIN (AP):Police in the western German city of Dortmund are dismissing reports of arson and large-scale violence by migrants on New Year's Eve.Several websites outside Germany carried articles...
