CANBERRA, Australia – Refugees rejected by Australia will soon fly from the Pacific atoll of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia, the Australian government said Thursday. Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that a charter flight on Monday will fly the first refugees to be resettled in Phnom Penh under a bilateral …
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MADRID, Spain – The Spanish oil company Repsol has announced new gas finds in southeastern Algeria in a region made infamous by a 2013 attack on a gas complex by al-Qaida-linked militants. Repsol’s consortium, which included Enel, GDF-Suez and a 51 percent stake for Algerian state oil company Sonatrach, found …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank says it is very likely the U.S. territory’s government could be forced to shut down in the next three months due to a lack of funds. The bank issued the warning in a letter sent Tuesday to Gov. Alejandro Garcia …
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Three young women in Russia were sentenced to jail Saturday for making a video showing them twerking next to a memorial. Russia celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Allies’ victory in the World War II next month, an emotionally charged holiday the Kremlin has been using for propaganda purposes. The …
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Top executives from several big Brazilian construction and engineering firms have been released from prison but will remain under house arrest for their alleged role in a massive kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras. The chief executive officer of the UTC Engenharia firm and the …
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PARIS – French authorities say vandals have damaged a memorial plaque honoring a young French Jewish man tortured and killed in 2006. The incident targeting the monument to Ilan Halimi comes amid heightened religious tensions in France, after radical Islamic gunmen attacked a Paris kosher market and newspaper Charlie Hebdo …
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ISTANBUL – Turkey’s electoral board has rejected a complaint by the main pro-Kurdish party accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of violating rules that require him to be impartial. Wednesday’s decision comes a month before Turkey’s June 7 general election. State-run Anadolu Agency says the board’s decision was unanimous. The People’s …
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Arnold Schwarzenegger |MTV Awards |Mel Gibson Arnold’s ‘Smoking Gun’: Sex, Drugs and Booze This may be a first for a gubernatorial candidate. The Web site thesmokinggun.com has dug up a 1977 interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger that should have tongues across California wagging all day. The interview, conducted by Peter Manso …
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PARIS – Airbus’ troubled A400M military plane has hit turbulence once again. The cargo plane whose rollout went billions over budget and years over deadline is being grounded by numerous governments after a crash in Spain this weekend killed two pilots and two flight test engineers. Though the crash is …
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DAMASCUS, Syria – A Syrian official on Thursday called on the international community to protect the 2,000-year-old ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra, now threatened by advancing Islamic State militants. Maamoun Abdulkarim, Syria’s director-general of antiquities and museums, told The Associated Press by telephone that the U.S.-led coalition, which …
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