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Trump backs off push for raising assault rifle purchase age 12 Mar 2018 - 07:50 am

WASHINGTON: The White House unveiled a new plan to prevent school shootings that backs off President Donald Trump's support for increasing the minimum...

Cuba holds one-party vote as post-Castro era looms 11 Mar 2018 - 08:29 am

HAVANA: Cubans go to the polls on Sunday in a one-party vote that marks the penultimate step in a political process that will...

Canada provincial party elects new leader months before polls 11 Mar 2018 - 07:56 am

TORONTO: The main opposition party of Canada's most populous province, Ontario, elected a new leader on Saturday just three months before provincial elections,...

3 workers killed at California veterans center, gunman dead 10 Mar 2018 - 09:19 am

YOUNTVILLE, Calif., Three workers for a program that treats veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder were found dead Friday along with the suspect who...

Love thy neighbor: US sanctuary churches protect Trump-era migrants 10 Mar 2018 - 08:18 am

Greensboro, United States: Business owner Oscar Canales has spent the past three months confined to a church basement in the US city of...

Sick Venezuelans flee to Colombia in mounting refugee crisis 08 Mar 2018 - 06:52 pm

CUCUTA, Colombia: In a cramped hospital near Colombia's border with Venezuela, migrants fill stretchers bearing the wounds of the deteriorating nation they left...

Brazilian shelters overwhelmed by influx of desperate Venezuelans 08 Mar 2018 - 06:43 pm

Boa Vista, Brazil: As soon as the traffic lights turn red, a swarm of young Venezuelans with sponges and plastic bottles of detergent...

Snow storm pounds U.S. Northeast, closing schools, snarling commutes 08 Mar 2018 - 01:33 pm

NEW YORK: The second winter storm in a week will continue to dump wet, heavy snow on New England on Thursday, forcing schools...

Alabama student dies in accidental school shooting - officials 08 Mar 2018 - 09:28 am

A female student was killed and one person was wounded in a shooting at an Alabama high school on Wednesday that authorities are...

Eleven nations - but not U.S. - to sign Trans-Pacific trade deal 08 Mar 2018 - 09:11 am

SANTIAGO: Eleven countries are expected to sign a landmark Asia-Pacific trade agreement in Santiago on Thursday, as an antidote to the increasingly protectionist...

Kushner to visit Mexico after Trump tirades, testy phone call 07 Mar 2018 - 09:21 am

MEXICO CITY: Senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, will visit Mexico on Wednesday and meet President Enrique Pena Nieto, amid...

Wreckage of famed US World War II carrier discovered 06 Mar 2018 - 04:15 pm

BANGKOK: A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by...

Maersk says loses containers off U.S. East Coast 06 Mar 2018 - 12:41 pm

Shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk said Tuesday between 70 and 73 containers had collapsed on a vessel off the U.S. East Coast, causing some...

Trump links tariff relief for Canada, Mexico to NAFTA talks 05 Mar 2018 - 04:40 pm

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday said North American neighbors Canada and Mexico will get no relief from his new tariffs on steel...

Man fatally shoots himself in front of White House 04 Mar 2018 - 09:22 am

Washington, A man fatally shot himself on the crowded pedestrian avenue directly in front of the White House on Saturday, officials said. "Adult...

Tourist's parents file lawsuit in Grand Canyon copter crash 03 Mar 2018 - 10:47 am

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., The parents of a British tourist who died after the Grand Canyon sightseeing helicopter he was in crashed have filed the...

Republicans ignore Trump's policy whims _ but not on trade 03 Mar 2018 - 10:44 am

WASHINGTON: Republicans in Congress have learned to ignore President Donald Trump's policy whims, knowing whatever he says one day on guns, immigration or...