20 killed as Mexico City rail overpass collapses
Reuters, Mexico City
4 May 2021 United States
Mexican president defends 10-foot barriers to wall off women protesters
REUTERS, MEXICO CITY
6 March 2021 United States
Three Bangladeshi students die in Canada road crash
Star Digital Report
19 February 2021 United States
Mexico’s president says he’s tested positive for COVID-19
AP, Mexico City
25 January 2021 United States
A new chapter opens in US politics: Vice-president Harris
AP, Washington
20 January 2021 United States
Biden sworn in as US president, takes helm of deeply divided nation
Reuters, Washington
20 January 2021 United States
Law enforcement officials brace for pro-Trump protests at state capitol buildings
Reuters, Lansing, Mich./Atlanta
17 January 2021 United States

No jail time sought for Flynn

Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor in charge of the Russia election meddling probe, recommended Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn face no jail time due to his "substantial" cooperation with the investigation.
5 December 2018

Alarmed Trump wants talks with Putin, Xi

US President Donald Trump on Monday proposed talks with the leaders of China and Russia aimed at halting what he described as an
4 December 2018

UN cautious as rebels back peace talks

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough on ending Yemen's brutal war, saying he hoped talks would start by the end of the year.
30 November 2018

Migrants defy Trump at Mexico border

Hundreds of Central American migrants staged a boisterous demonstration on the US Mexico border Thursday, screaming for President Donald Trump to let them in as US soldiers and riot police put on a menacing show of force.
23 November 2018

Ex-Guatemalan soldier gets 5,160 yrs' jail

A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison for the massacre of 201 peasants during one of the worst atrocities of the Central American nation's civil war.
22 November 2018

Gunman kills 3 at Chicago hospital

A gunman shot a doctor to death outside a Chicago hospital on Monday before storming the facility and killing a pharmaceutical assistant and a police officer during an exchange of gunfire and dying in the rampage, officials said.
20 November 2018

Six survive 84-floor lift drop in Chicago

An elevator inside Chicago's former Hancock building dropped 84 floors before trapping six people inside, local news outlets reported. Rescuers arrived shortly after the fall early Friday morning to cut a hole in the building's wall and free those inside.
20 November 2018

Ivanka used personal email for govt work

The US president's daughter and senior advisor Ivanka Trump used a personal email account for government business in violation of federal records rules, The Washington Post reported Monday.
20 November 2018

Trump hits out at Pak over bin Laden capture

President Donald Trump repeated Monday that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, killed by US Navy SEALs in May 2011, should have been captured much earlier, casting blame on his predecessors and Pakistan.
20 November 2018

White House backs down from legal fight

The White House said Monday it restored in full the media credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta, ending a contentious legal battle, but also warned that he may be ejected again if he fails to abide by new rules being implemented for media events with the US president.
20 November 2018

No plan to extradite Gulen to Turkey: US

US President Donald Trump said Saturday that he had no plans to extradite Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is accused by Ankara
18 November 2018

Democrat concedes to GOP candidate

Democrat Andrew Gillum announced Saturday he was conceding his hard-fought race for Florida governor to his Republican rival, Ron
18 November 2018

UN to convene Yemen talks in Sweden soon

The United Nations intends to convene peace talks on Yemen soon after receiving firm assurances from the parties that they will attend
17 November 2018

37 killed in CAR clashes

At least 37 people were found dead in a town in restive Central African Republic, the UN said Friday, after clashes between Christian and
17 November 2018

Number of missing soars past 1,000

The number of people listed as missing in a northern California wildfire jumped past 1,000 as searchers found the remains of eight more
17 November 2018

Verdict a signal to other perpetrators

The US has welcomed Cambodia's landmark genocide verdict and said it served as a warning that perpetrators of mass atrocities, "even
17 November 2018

28,529 Afghan troops killed since 2015

The death toll among Afghanistan's security forces is nearing 30,000 since the start of 2015, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said, a
17 November 2018

BITS OF HISTORY (NOVEMBER 17)

1917: Auguste Rodin, French sculptor of "The Thinker" and "The Kiss", died.
17 November 2018

'If he misbehaves, we'll throw him out'

The White House agreed Friday to allow CNN reporter Jim Acosta back in after a judge ruled that the star journalist was improperly
17 November 2018

Trump says he has written answers to Mueller's questions

US President Donald Trump said Friday he had personally written -- though not yet submitted -- answers to the questions put to the White House by Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, while once more assailing the probe as a "witch hunt."
17 November 2018