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Ricciardo takes pole position for Monaco GP ahead of Vettel
MONACO - Daniel Ricciardo took a dominant pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday, softening the blow for Red Bull after his teammate Max Verstappen failed to even start qualifying, having...
May 26, 2018
Freed after 2 years, man jailed in Venezuela returns to US
WASHINGTON - Joshua Holt, who travelled to Venezuela from Utah in 2016 to marry a Spanish-speaking Mormon woman but soon found himself jailed and later branded the CIA’s top spy in Latin America...
May 26, 2018
22 killed in Uganda when speeding bus strikes beer truck
KAMPALA, Uganda - A police spokesman says 22 people are dead after a speeding passenger bus struck a tractor and then a beer truck on its way to Uganda’s capital. Emilian Kayima says in a statem...
May 26, 2018
Pakistan police kill 6 linked to bomb attack
MULTAN, Pakistan - Police in Pakistan say they have killed six “terrorists” behind a bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore last year. Police spokesman Salim Khan says counterterrorism ...
May 26, 2018
Florida panhandle braces as storm Alberto gains new strength
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Subtropical Storm Alberto, gained strength as it approached the northern Gulf Coast, emptying out beaches in Florida ahea...
May 26, 2018
India military says 4 militants killed near Kashmir frontier
SRINAGAR, India - At least four suspected militants were killed in a gunbattle with government troops Saturday after crossing into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the ...
May 26, 2018
With US talks in limbo, Korean leaders hold surprise summit
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Saturday for the second time in a month, exchanging a huge bear hug and broad smiles in a surpris...
May 26, 2018
Powerful cyclone strikes Oman, Yemen; 6 dead, 30 missing
SALALAH, Oman - A cyclone more powerful than any previously recorded in southern Oman slammed into the Gulf country and neighbouring Yemen on Saturday, deluging a major city with nearly three years...
May 26, 2018
Spain: Police arrest 66-year-old suspected bank robber
MADRID - Spanish police say they have arrested a 66-year-old man suspected of robbing nine different banks in Spain in the past month. He was arrested in a hotel in Getafe near Madrid, where police sa...
May 26, 2018
Ebola vaccinations begin in rural Congo on Monday: Ministry
KINSHASA, Congo - Ebola vaccinations will begin Monday in the two rural areas of Congo where the latest deadly outbreak was declared this month, the health ministry said Saturday, as the number of con...
May 26, 2018