West Africa leaders to continue Gambia mediation: Liberia president
ACCRA – West African leaders are still pursuing mediation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in Gambia where President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept defeat in an election last…
Gun was given back to Florida shooting suspect last month
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Police in Alaska took a handgun from the man accused of killing five people at Fort Lauderdale’s airport on Friday, but they returned it to him…
French military to boost defenses against cyber attacks: minister
PARIS – France is no less vulnerable than the United States to cyber attacks from foreign countries and the French military will boost its resources to defend against them, the…
Former PM Soares who ushered in democracy in Portugal dies at 92
LISBON – Portugal’s former president and prime minister Mario Soares, who was a central figure in the country’s return to democracy in the 1970s after decades of rightist dictatorship, has…
Thousands demonstrate in Paris over murder of Kurdish militants
PARIS – Several thousand people have demonstrated in Paris to demand justice and a speedier investigation into the 2013 murder of three Kurdish activists. Sakine Cansiz, a founder of the…
Four ordered held without bail over Chicago torture shown on Facebook
CHICAGO – Four African-Americans accused of attacking an 18-year-old white man with special needs while making anti-white racial taunts in an assault broadcast on Facebook were ordered held without bail…
Florida shooting: Five dead at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport
A gunman with a US military identification has opened fire at a baggage carousel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, killing five people before being taken into custody, officials and witnesses…
Brazil gang kills 31, many hacked to death, as prison violence explodes
Jailed members of Brazil’s most powerful drug gang have killed 31 inmates at a penitentiary, decapitating and cutting out the hearts of most of them, in revenge for a separate…
China vows ‘zero tolerance’ for election fraud in upcoming party congress
BEIJING – China has vowed to give no quarter in handling election fraud in the upcoming central Communist Party congress to decide on its future leadership, warning cadres to learn…
United States intel report identifies Russians who gave emails to WikiLeaks
WASHINGTON – The CIA has identified Russian officials who fed material hacked from the Democratic National Committee and party leaders to WikiLeaks at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin…
