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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP):Two senior US Treasury officials say finance ministers from several Latin American nations, as well as the US and Europe, have agreed to work jointly to locate and seize assets arising from corruption by Venezuelan government...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP):No criminal charges will be filed in Prince's death, and evidence shows that the musician thought he was taking a common painkiller instead of a counterfeit pill containing the fentanyl that killed him, a Minnesota prosecutor said...
PHILADELPHIA (AP):Rashon Nelson initially brushed it off when the Starbucks manager told him he couldn't use the restroom because he wasn't a paying customer.He thought nothing of it when he and his childhood friend and business partner, Donte...
HAVANA (AP):Raul Castro said yesterday that he expected 57-year-old Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez to serve two five-year terms as president and eventually take Castro's place as head of the Communist Party, potentially dominating Cuban politics...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump yesterday confirmed that his CIA chief secretly met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea and said "a good relationship was formed" heading into the adversaries' anticipated summit.Mike Pompeo's highly unusual talks...
NICOSIA (AP):A senior cleric says Cyprus' Orthodox Christian Church has for the first time defrocked a priest for sexually abusing his step-daughter when she was a child.Kykkos Bishop Nikiforos said yesterday the Holy Synod's decision was unanimous....
TOKYO (AP):A senior Japanese finance ministry official resigned yesterday over sexual misconduct allegations in the latest embarrassment for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's embattled government, already hit by cronyism and other scandals.Vice Finance...
NEW YORK (AP):A nanny who stabbed two children to death at their home while their mother was taking a sibling to a swimming lesson and their father was out of town was convicted of murder yesterday despite her claims that she was too mentally ill to...
PALM BEACH, Florida (AP):Top Trump administration officials say that major concessions, including a possible exemption from steel and aluminium tariffs, could be on the table for Japan as President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meet in...
LONDON (AP):In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient - who is now doing well and even spent a recent weekend in Brittany.Dr Laurent Lantieri of the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP): U.S. prosecutors have apparently won the cooperation of a key witness in the case of a top rebel ideologue arrested last week on charges of trying to import 10 metric tons of cocaine into the U.S.An official from...
HOUSTON (AP) — Former US first lady Barbara Bush has died at the age of 92. On the weekend Bush was reported to be in failing health and after a series of hospitalisations decided not to seek further medical treatment, a family spokesman...
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP):New Jersey lawmakers advanced a measure to prohibit the purchase of firearms parts used to make untraceable weapons, or so-called ghost guns.The Democrat-led Senate law and public safety committee approved the measure...
LEGGETT, CalifORNIA (AP):Crews searching for a family whose vehicle plunged into a rain-swollen Northern California river more than a week ago have found the sport utility vehicle and the bodies of a man and a girl inside, authorities said yesterday...
GUARUJA, Brazil (AP) :About 100 members of a Brazilian homeless movement protesting the jailing of former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday briefly took over the beachfront apartment at the center of the corruption case against him.After...
DOUMA (AP):Syrian and Russian authorities prevented independent investigators from going to the scene of a suspected chemical attack, the head of the chemical watchdog group said yesterday, blocking international efforts to establish what happened...
