KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has started documenting and screening thousands of detained Myanmar nationals as part of a repatriation program agreed with Myanmar , Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution said Thursday. Saifuddin said Myanmar had committed to accept up to 5,000 of its...
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France (AP) — French authorities ordered 4,000 more people evacuated from tourist sites along its Atlantic coast on Tuesday, widening what may be France’s largest peacetime evacuation as returning heat threatened firefighters’ fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of...
Inside a packed subway in Rome, a tense confrontation spiraled into a physical clash, one that would soon go viral and turn a Filipino worker into an unlikely figure in the city’s fight against pickpockets. Mervin Dayagro, 45, a factory worker from Dasmariñas, Cavite, did not set out to become...
A man fatally shot his wife and their six children, then himself, before they all were found in their burning Michigan home last week, investigators said Monday. Kristopher and Amanda Karolkiewicz and their six children, aged 5 to 15, died Friday in their home in Grand Haven Township, on the...
DETROIT (AP) — A major new bridge linking Canada and the U.S. at Detroit opened Monday to trucks, cars and other vehicles, the climax of a yearslong project that lately had been bruised a bit by international politics. Descendants of Gordie Howe, the hockey legend whose name is on the bridge,...
MIAMI (AP) — Major Hurricane Genevieve was roaring in the Pacific Ocean far from land Monday morning at the same time that Hurricane Fausto was bringing large surf to Hawaii. Genevieve was briefly a Category 5 hurricane early Monday, the first in the East Pacific region in two years, the National...
ARCACHON, France (AP) — Massive forest fires forced the evacuation of some 200,000 people in southwestern France and central Spain on Friday, with residents fleeing towns near Madrid and Bordeaux as the flames raged out of control. Firefighters and authorities in both European countries were...
A video showing a group of Filipinos allegedly being harassed inside a train in Italy has gone viral, drawing outrage online and renewed calls to protect overseas Filipinos from discrimination. The footage, which has circulated widely on social media, shows a tense exchange between the Filipinos...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump welcomed Iraq 's new prime minister to the White House on Tuesday after strongly backing the political neophyte in his bid for office. Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman with no political background, emerged as a consensus candidate in Iraq after months of...
MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S.-Russian space crew blasted off successfully Tuesday on a mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Russian crewmates Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz...
BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar has increased to 30, officials said Tuesday. More than 70 people remain hospitalized, with 24 of them in critical condition, according to Bangkok city officials. The blaze at the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar, the city’s deadliest...
BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — A federal immigration officer fatally shot a motorist in Maine on Monday, the second time in a week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have used deadly force and at least the ninth time since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown....
