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Indonesia intensifies search for victims after floods and landslides kill 49 people

MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) - Rescuers searched Thursday in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies, and when possible survivors, after flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island left 49 people dead and 67 missing. Monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to ...
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Sydney taekwondo instructor who murdered family of three consumed by fantasies of Olympic glory

SYDNEY (AP) - A Sydney taekwondo instructor who murdered a family of three had been consumed by fantasies of Olympic glory and meetings with billionaires, a court heard Thursday. Prosecutors argued Kwang Kyung Yoo, 51, should never be released from prison after pleading guilty to ...
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Guinea-Bissau opposition candidate accuses president of staging a coup and claims election victory

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) - The main opposition candidate in Guinea-Bissau late Wednesday claimed victory in a closely contested presidental vote this week and accused the West African nation's leader of staging a coup to avoid defeat. Wednesday's military takeover and the reported arrest of ...
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Iran adds new gasoline price tier starting in December

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran will introduce a new gasoline price tier on Dec. 6, raising the cost of fuel purchased beyond monthly quotas to 50,000 rials (about 4 cents on the Iranian exchange market) per liter, officials said, in a shift that adds ...
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UK net migration drops by about two-thirds after tougher policies

LONDON (Reuters) -Long-term net migration to Britain fell to 204,000 in the year to June, around two-thirds lower than a year earlier, official data showed on Thursday, extending a downward trend driven by tougher government policies. Immigration - both legal and illegal - has dominated ...
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Walking tours shed light on Madrid’s hidden Black history

By Nina Lopez MADRID (Reuters) -In Madrid, specialised tour guides are leading visitors past the customary landmarks to focus on an African heritage that barely appears in Spanish textbooks and collective memory, joining a trend seen in other European cities where slavery and the colonial ...
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Soyuz spacecraft blasts off for International Space Station with Russian and American crew

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board, a live stream of the launch showed. The Soyuz 2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur ...
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Pope Leo, flying on Thanksgiving, given two pumpkin pies on papal plane

By Joshua McElwee ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ANKARA (Reuters) -Like many Americans on the annual holiday of Thanksgiving, Pope Leo was travelling on Thursday, flying from Rome to Turkey for his first overseas trip as leader of the Catholic Church. While the first U.S. pope ...
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Interpol elects France’s Lucas Philippe as new president

(Corrects name throughout to Philippe not Phillipe) RABAT (Reuters) -Global police agency Interpol elected French police official Lucas Philippe as its president on Thursday. Philippe was elected for a four-year term during Interpol's general assembly in Marrakech. The assembly brought together 886 participants from 179 ...
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Poland arrests Russian suspected of hacking Polish companies

WARSAW (Reuters) -A Russian citizen suspected of hacking IT systems of Polish companies was arrested in Krakow, Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said on Thursday. "Police officers in Krakow have detained a Russian citizen suspected of serious crimes related to unauthorized interference in the IT ...
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From hunters to guardians: Angolan villagers help to save endangered sea turtles

HOJIUA, Angola (Reuters) -Once a sea turtle hunter, Joaquim Avelino Fragoso now patrols Angola's Longa estuary to protect the very creatures he once killed. "I like to watch the turtles when they come out to lay their eggs on land, and then go back ...
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Ousted leader Hasina sentenced in Bangladesh land corruption case

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced Thursday to 21 years in prison in three corruption cases related to allocations of land in a government project. She was sentenced to death earlier this month for crimes against humanity involving the ...
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