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NOVI SAD (AP): Tens of thousands of people from all over Serbia commemorated the victims of a railway station disaster a year ago in the northern city of Novi Sad in a gathering on Saturday seen as a massive display of discontent with the...

BAGHDAD (AP): Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Sunday called on Kurdish separatist fighters, who have withdrawn to the country’s north after waging a decades-long insurgency in Turkey, to disarm. Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began...

GENEVA (AP): The UN human rights chief said Friday that US military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop. The UN High Commissioner...

BOGOTÁ (AP): At age 72, Rosalba Casas finally celebrated her 15th birthday, donning a flowing pink dress and a tiara for the quinceañera she dreamed of as a teenager. “This is the happiest day because I’m celebrating my 15th birthday,” Casas said...

Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by staring down Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev over the Cuban missile crisis. At least, so goes a standard US-centric...

QANDIL (AP): A militant Kurdish group announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing its fighters from Turkey to Iraq, as part of a peace effort with the Turkish government. The statement delivered in northern Iraq by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or...

CALIFORNIA (AP): In the summers, the sky is jet black when Raul Cruz arrives at this Imperial Valley sugarcane field to start his day. He chops, cleans and bundles the crop, taking heed as the sun rises. It’s hard work, but so is starting at 4 a.m...

WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump announced he’s ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad opposing US tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called “egregious behaviour” aimed at influencing US court...

WASHINGTON (AP): The US military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel and leaving six people dead in the Caribbean....

KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalve said on Wednesday that while he has just published a book on regional integration, he also intends to write another one detailing his working relationship with former Cuban leaders, Fidel and Raul...

The US military on Wednesday launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said, expanding the Trump administration’s campaign against drug...