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German foreign minister flies to Libya to push peace effort
BERLIN - Germany's foreign minister was flying to Libya on Thursday to meet one of the country's rival leaders, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, in a bid to push forward troubled efforts to secure a cease-fire. G...
Jan 16, 2020
3 African nations reach preliminary deal in Nile dam dispute
WASHINGTON - Officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan say they have reached a preliminary agreement aimed at clearing the way for the filling and operation of a $5 billion dam project on the Nile Rive...
Jan 16, 2020
Ghosn's Japan lawyer quits after client's flight to Lebanon
TOKYO - One of the Japanese lawyers for former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn has stepped down from that job after his client fled the country. Junichiro Hironaka had been representing Ghosn in his defe...
Jan 16, 2020
US says its pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai sponsored by UAE
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United States said its participation at this year's World's Fair in Dubai is being made possible by "the generosity of the Emirati government." The U.S. State Departm...
Jan 16, 2020
Inuit women in Canada's north encountering 'racialized policing,' report says
OTTAWA - A new report on how police respond to violence against women in Canada's four northern Inuit regions says researchers have uncovered "systemic racialized policing" there. Inter...
Jan 16, 2020
Philippine volcano's quakes, cracks send more people fleeing
LEMERY, Philippines - A Philippine volcano belched smaller plumes of ash but shuddered continuously with earthquakes and opened cracks in roads Thursday as police blockaded at-risk towns due to fears ...
Jan 16, 2020
Experts say Med Sea altered by Suez Canal's invasive species
TEL AVIV, Israel - As Egypt marks the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Suez Canal, marine biologists are bemoaning one of the famed waterway's lesser known legacies - the invasion of hundreds o...
Jan 16, 2020
3 African countries trying out 1st malaria vaccine in babies
TOMALI, Malawi - A pinch in the leg, a squeal and a trickle of tears. One baby after another in Malawi is getting the first and only vaccine against malaria, one of history's deadliest and most stubbo...
Jan 16, 2020
Australia firefighters save world's only rare dinosaur trees
CANBERRA, Australia - Specialist firefighters have saved the world's last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefigh...
Jan 16, 2020
US officials cite deterrence to defend lethal drone strike
WASHINGTON - For all of the Trump administration's insistence that the threat of an "imminent" attack led to the American drone strike on Iran's top general, U.S. officials behind the scenes say the s...
Jan 16, 2020
