Scientific evidence grows for e-cigarettes as quit-smoking aids
LONDON – Electronic cigarettes may have helped about 18,000 people in England to give up smoking last year and there is no evidence of any serious side effects associated with…
French police arrest another teenager suspected of plotting attack
PARIS – French police have arrested a 15-year old suspected of planning an attack and using encrypted social media channels to communicate with a French Islamist militant believed to be in…
Australia’s far-right leader denounces China investment in comeback speech
Pauline Hanson, founder of Australia’s far-right One Nation party, has used her first speech in parliament in almost two decades to denounce Chinese ownership of assets and warn that the…
Australia to extend money laundering laws
The federal government is reviving long-stalled plans to extend anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws to capture lawyers, accountants, real estate agents and jewellers, Justice Minister Michael Keenan says. The law…
France pledges more aid for struggling tourism sector
PARIS – The French government has pledged more aid to help the country’s struggling tourism sector cope after a wave of Islamist attacks, bringing to 10 million euros its contribution…
Syria truce largely holds, aid preparations underway
BEIRUT – A new ceasefire in Syria has brought a full day with no combat deaths in the war between President Bashar al-Assad and his opponents, a London-based monitoring body…
Trump steps up bid to highlight Clinton’s “deplorables” remark
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has stepped up efforts to wring maximum advantage from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s comment that his supporters are “deplorables” as he seeks to portray her…
WADA says systems hacked by Russian cyber espionage group
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed that confidential athlete data relating to the Rio Olympics had been hacked by a Russian cyber espionage group that had published some of it…
Somalia hosts first summit of African leaders since war began in 1991
MOGADISHU – Somalia hosted regional African heads of state on Tuesday for a summit that was the first of its kind in the Somali capital since the Horn of Africa…
No Olympics but Kyrgios pledges Davis Cup commitment
MELBOURNE – After controversially missing the Rio Olympics, Nick Kyrgios has pledged his commitment to Australia‘s Davis Cup team ahead of their World Group playoff against Slovakia. The 21-year-old firebrand…
