SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced Tuesday that his country would send two dozen soldiers and police officers to Haiti this week to boost a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight violent gangs . The 20 soldiers and four police officers are scheduled to arrive Thursday and will
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A dam collapsed Tuesday in northeastern Nigeria unleashing severe flooding that prompted evacuations and swept deadly reptiles from a zoo into communities in the area, local officials and a zoo manager said. The collapse of the Alau dam in the state of Borno caused some of the state’s worst flooding since
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The captain of a migrant boat that capsized off Senegal over the weekend was arrested, local authorities said Tuesday, as the death toll rose to 26. Cheikh Sall, the owner and captain of the boat, turned himself in Monday, Amadou Diop, the district’s prefect, told The Associated Press. The death toll
LONDON (AP) — British lawmaker Mel Stride became the second candidate to be kicked out of the Conservative Party leadership contest , leaving four contenders still running to lead the party after its catastrophic election defeat . Stride garnered just 16 votes in a ballot of Conservative lawmakers on Tuesday, finishing last of five contenders.
LONDON (AP) — Public displays of affection on a royal video? My, how times have changed! When the Princess of Wales announced that she had completed chemotherapy treatment in a soft-focus, Insta-ready video, she ventured into realms not previously inhabited by Britain’s royal family, traditionally known for the stiff-upper-lip, “never complain, never explain” ethos of
GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss appeals court has found noted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan guilty of rape and sexual coercion nearly 16 years ago and sentenced him to a year in prison, overruling an acquittal by a lower court . In a written ruling made public on Tuesday, the court in Geneva handed Ramadan, 62
Change has broken, remade and reshaped the remote Canadian town of Churchill on the shore of Hudson Bay. The weather is warming and signature animals are dwindling. To survive, Churchill turned to tourism, luring people eager to see polar bears. (AP Video: Joshua A. Bickel) Change has broken, remade and reshaped the remote Canadian town
Pope Francis’ visit to Singapore on Wednesday, where three-quarters of the population is ethnically Chinese and Mandarin is an official language, will give him yet another opportunity to reach out to Beijing as the Vatican seeks improved ties for the sake of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics. Pope Francis’ visit to Singapore on Wednesday, where
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The German government plans to extend temporary border controls to all nine of its frontiers next week in what it describes as an effort to crack down on irregular migration and crime following recent extremist attacks in the country. Last month, a deadly knife attack in Soligen killed three people. The
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police on Tuesday freed the president of the opposition party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan , a day after he was detained outside parliament on a charge of allegedly inciting violence, his party said. Islamabad police in a statement confirmed the release of Gohar Khan, who is not related to
