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In embattled Venezuela, beauty offers ladder out of poverty 06 Jul 2018 - 04:59 pm

CARACAS, Venezuela: At a small home with a leaking tin roof near Venezuela's capital, Johandrys Colls proudly shows off two metal crowns with...

British PM challenges Brexit hardliners at marathon talks 06 Jul 2018 - 04:59 pm

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May challenged hardliners in her warring cabinet to unite behind a Brexit plan and unblock negotiations with the...

Ousted Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif sentenced to 10 years in prison 06 Jul 2018 - 02:48 pm

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison for corrupt practices linked to his...

Imran Khan aims to make graft-prone Pakistan a welfare state 06 Jul 2018 - 12:21 pm

Imran Khan stepped onto a makeshift stage in a trash-ridden Karachi district at 1 am to address hundreds of supporters who’d been waiting...

New leader at EPA is former coal lobbyist, Senate staffer 05 Jul 2018 - 11:35 pm

WASHINGTON: The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lobbyist who helped lead an industry fight against regulations...

US using DNA tests to reunite children with migrant parents 05 Jul 2018 - 11:35 pm

Washington: US officials have resorted to DNA testing on up to 3,000 detained children who remain separated from their migrant parents, a top...

Statue of Liberty climber pleads not guilty after immigration protest 05 Jul 2018 - 11:13 pm

NEW YORK: A New York woman who scaled the stone pedestal of the Statue of Liberty to protest U.S. immigration policy pleaded not...

Former Fox News executive to join White House 05 Jul 2018 - 10:57 pm

SAN FRANCISCO: The White House announced Thursday that Bill Shine, the former co-president of Fox News, has been appointed as the new deputy...

Trump's scandal-hit environment chief resigns 05 Jul 2018 - 09:49 pm

WASHINGTON: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday amid ethics investigations of outsized security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease....

Boys' team identity, meditation may ease stress in Thai cave 05 Jul 2018 - 06:53 pm

MAE SAI, Thailand: At a gilded temple in Thailand's mountainous north, Ekapol Chanthawong honed a skill that will serve him well as he...

49 missing from tourist boat overturned in rough seas in southern Thailand’s Phuket 05 Jul 2018 - 06:43 pm

PHUKET, Thailand: A provincial governor says 49 people are missing from a boat carrying mostly Chinese tourists that overturned in rough seas off...

Russian warplanes pummel southwest Syria in support of government assault 05 Jul 2018 - 01:57 pm

BEIRUT: Dark clouds of smoke rose over Syrian rebel-held areas near the border with Jordan on Thursday as President Bashar al-Assad's Russian allies...

Trump to meet Queen Elizabeth despite chorus of discontent 05 Jul 2018 - 10:43 am

LONDON: When Donald Trump meets Queen Elizabeth next week, he will become the 12th U.S. President that the monarch has met during her...

Ethiopia fires senior prison officials for abuses as reform wave rolls on 05 Jul 2018 - 10:13 am

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia fired five senior prison officials, hours before the release of a Human Rights Watch report that detailed torture and other...

UK authorities seeking clues in new Novichok poisoning case 05 Jul 2018 - 10:08 am

LONDON: British officials were seeking clues Thursday in the rush to understand how two Britons were exposed to the military-grade nerve agent Novichok....

Rebel-held south Syria hit by heaviest strikes yet: monitor 05 Jul 2018 - 10:04 am

Beirut: The Syrian government and its Russian ally pounded rebel-held areas of the southern province of Daraa on Thursday with the heaviest air...

Mexico authorities mulling $10 mln fine for election victors 05 Jul 2018 - 07:43 am

Mexico City, July 4: Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's party could face a $10 million fine for violations of campaign finance rules,...