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SINGAPORE The girlfriend of a U.S. software engineer whose parents insist he was murdered in Singapore said at a coroner’s inquest yesterday that he had ... Full story

British fugitive Andrew Moran is arrested

ORGANIZED CRIME: British fugitive caught sunbathing in Spain

Spanish police snuck up on a British fugitive as he sunbathed, arresting him in a dramatic raid that even saw the suspect leap onto the ... Full story

Cheung Kong cancels hotel room sales as regulator starts probe

Cheung Kong cancels hotel room sales as regulator starts probe

Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd., the developer controlled by Asia’s richest man, is canceling the sale of HK$1.4 billion (USD180 million) of hotel rooms in Hong ... Full story

Coronaviruses are a family of pathogens that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS

FRANCE: Coronavirus case points to limited human-to-human spread

The novel coronavirus that has killed more than half the 38 people it’s known to have infected appears capable of limited human-to-human spread, the World ... Full story

People gathered at the scene at one of the Saturday explosion sites that killed tens of people, in Reyhanli, near Turkey’s border with Syria

TURKEY Erdogan: Gov’t would “not refrain” from responding to Syria 


Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that Turkey will “not refrain” from responding to twin car bombings it has blamed on Syria, but that ... Full story

Bystanders comfort a shooting victim while awaiting EMS at the intersection of Frenchmen and N. Villere Streets after authorities say gunfire injured at least a dozen people, including a child, at a Mother’s Day second-line parade in New Orleans

MOTHER’S DAY PARADE GUNFIRE: Police vow to solve shooting of 19 in New Orleans 


Video released early yesterday by New Orleans police shows a possible suspect in the Mother’s Day gunfire that wounded 19 people during a neighborhood parade.The ... Full story

Protesters shout slogans around a bonfire during a protest claiming the current parliamentary elections are not legitimate in Sofia

BULGARIA Center-right wins most of the votes

Bulgaria’s center-right party has fallen far short of winning a majority needed to form a government, according to nearly final election results released yesterday, and ... Full story

This Day in History: 1991 Mandela’s wife jailed for kidnaps

This Day in History: 1991 Mandela’s wife jailed for kidnaps

Winnie Mandela, the wife of anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela, has been given a six-year prison sentence for her part in the kidnap of four youths. ... Full story

Offbeat: US smokejumpers skydive into illegal pot garden

A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season.The ... Full story

The Buzz: ‘Gatsby’ gives ‘Iron Man 3’ a run for its money

Gatsby looks almost as great as a superhero at the weekend box office. Leonard DiCaprio’s “The Great Gatsby” partied like it was the Roaring Twenties ... Full story

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