JAKARTA (Reuters) – Two Islamic parties have proposed legislation that would ban all consumption of alcoholic drinks and bring jail terms of up to two years for offenders in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, the Jakarta Post said today.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – German novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died today at the age of 87, his publishers said.
(Trinidad Express) The Caribbean needs to take the next step and use technology not just for entertainment and education but to create novel applications, services and processes to be able to compete globally.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis sparked a diplomatic row yesterday by calling the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians 100 years ago “the first genocide of the 20th century,” prompting Turkey to accuse him of inciting hatred.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Barack Obama’s historic talks with Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday were the culmination of a long quest by the U.S.
(Reuters) – Grammy-award winning rapper Nelly was arrested on felony drug charges on Saturday after a Tennessee state trooper stopped the vehicle he was traveling in and found illegal drugs, authorities said.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton promised to be a champion for everyday Americans today as she kicked off a long-awaited second run for the White House as the commanding Democratic front runner.
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama met Cuban President Raul Castro yesterday in the highest-level talks between the two countries in nearly 60 years, and the two men agreed to push ahead on improving relations after decades of hostility.
ADEN (Reuters) – Local militiamen in the Yemeni city of Aden said they captured two Iranian military officers advising Houthi rebels during fighting on Friday evening.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton will announce her second run for the presidency today, starting her campaign as the Democrats’ best hope of fending off a crowded field of lesser-known Republican rivals and retaining the White House.
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh hanged Islamist opposition leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman yesterday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, a move met with an angry reaction from his supporters who called for a protest strike.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro have talked by telephone about restoring diplomatic ties and are due to meet at a summit this weekend as they seek to set aside decades of hostility between two Cold War enemies.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton will announce her second run for the presidency on Sunday, starting her campaign as the Democrats’ best hope of fending off a crowded field of lesser-known Republican rivals and retaining the White House.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani court freed on bail today a man accused of plotting a 2008 assault on India’s financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people, his lawyer said.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton will announce her second run for the presidency on Sunday, starting her campaign as the Democrats’ best hope of fending off a crowded field of lesser-known Republican rivals and retaining the White House.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Always the bride, never the bridesmaid. A New York City woman accused of being married to eight men at the same time pleaded not guilty in state court in the Bronx on Friday to two counts of felony fraud that prosecutors say stemmed from a scheme to gain U.S.
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA, (Reuters) – The U.S. and Cuban foreign ministers met in Panama yesterday, a U.S.
KINGSTON, April 9 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama waded into a hot topic in Jamaica on Thursday when he was asked for his views on pot, an item close to the hearts – and minds – of many people in this Caribbean nation famous for its local “ganja” crop.
ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – Direct flights between Orlando and Havana will begin on July 8 operated by a company hoping visitors to the top U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – It is one of science’s enduring mysteries: what caused the worst mass extinction in Earth’s history.
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