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Tiny Djibouti aiming to be global military, shipping centre
DJIBOUTI - Two fighter jets took off and roared over the Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport, a sprawling complex in this tiny African nation that is quickly becoming a strategic military and shipp...
Apr 9, 2018
Report: Airlines getting better in key areas except delays
U.S. airlines are getting better at many things except getting you to your destination on time. They are losing fewer bags. Complaints are down. And on the anniversary of a man getting dragged off a p...
Apr 9, 2018
Child advocates ask FTC to investigate YouTube
Read carefully through the fine print of YouTube’s terms of service and you might notice that you’ve affirmed you are old enough to watch it. “If you are under 13 years of age, then ...
Apr 9, 2018
Dyed hair, similar builds behind mix-up of Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims
HUMBOLDT, Sask. - One family got the worst news, the other the best. After believing Humboldt Broncos hockey player Parker Tobin had survived the team’s bus crash late last week in Saskatchewan,...
Apr 9, 2018
Trump once fought measure requiring sprinklers in buildings
NEW YORK - The 50th-floor apartment in Trump Tower where a man was killed in a raging fire did not have sprinklers - a requirement Donald Trump once fought as a powerful real estate developer. Todd Br...
Apr 9, 2018
UN, Singapore concerned about rising trade tensions
BEIJING - The U.N. secretary-general and the Singaporean foreign minister voiced concerns about global trade tensions and rising protectionism during back-to-back meetings in Beijing on Sunday. Follow...
Apr 9, 2018
Still popular, Brazil's Lula starts serving jail sentence
CURITIBA, Brazil - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva woke up in jail Sunday as the first current or former president in Brazil’s modern history to be incarcerated, adding a me...
Apr 9, 2018
Pakistan summons US envoy over deadly crash
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan summoned the American ambassador on Sunday to lodge a formal protest after a road crash involving a U.S. Embassy vehicle killed a Pakistani motorcyclist. Ambassador David Hale was...
Apr 9, 2018
Hungary's pro-migrant groups seen as targets after election
BUDAPEST, Hungary - A day after it won an overwhelming election victory on an anti-migration platform, the right-wing populist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it would limit the ab...
Apr 9, 2018
Najib heads into tough race with vow to make Malaysia great
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak unveiled a lavish election manifesto with cash benefits targeting rural ethnic Malays, his key voting bloc, as he faces an unprecedented c...
Apr 9, 2018