CHISINAU, Moldova – Dozens of people lined up outside three banks after the central bank governor said they would be closed in line with demands from the International Monetary Fund. Governor of the National Bank of Moldova Dorin Dragutanu said Thursday the state-owned Savings Bank, the Social Bank and Unibank, …
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BOGOTA, Colombia – The cremated remains of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez are making their return journey home to Colombia. They’ll be kept in the Caribbean city of Cartagena where he began his writing career. Authorities from the state of Bolivar said Tuesday they reached an agreement with Garcia …
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LISBON, Portugal – Portugal’s main opposition Socialist Party is promising to deliver more growth and less austerity if it regains power in October elections. The center-left Socialists have said they intend to abide by fiscal discipline rules governing countries sharing the euro currency. But party leader Antonio Costa says the …
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MEXICO CITY – Authorities in northern Mexico found 63 children between the ages of 8 and 17 working long hours in miserable conditions at a vegetable packing company, officials said Thursday. The state government in Coahuila, which borders Texas, said the minors told authorities they had only a half-day off …
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ROME – Italy’s coast guard says it coordinated the rescue of some 4,400 migrants in a single day, a record-setting number, as smugglers took advantage of ideal sea conditions off Libya to launch a fleet of overcrowded, unseaworthy boats. The coast guard on Sunday said 22 rescue operations were carried …
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GENEVA – The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders says two of its workers have been killed in separate attacks in villages in South Sudan. The group, also known by the French name Medecins Sans Frontieres, said Tuesday that Gawar Top Puoy, a logistician, and community health worker James Gatluak Gatpieny …
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SYDNEY – A Sydney man accused of recruiting foreign fighters to battle the Syrian regime has lost a court challenge to the Australian law that he is charged with breaking. Hamdi Alqudsi was charged under the Crime (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act after he allegedly helped seven men go to …
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BAMAKO, Mali – A government-allied militia in Mali says it won’t follow demands by an international peace monitoring group to leave a northern town that it took from separatists last week. Fihroun Maiga, spokesman for the militia, said Friday that if they leave and the army does not come in, …
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Emergency crews were working Sunday to clean up in the aftermath of a vicious windstorm that tore through southwestern British Columbia, toppling trees and branches onto power lines and cars and leaving an estimated 500,000 people without electricity. BC Hydro said it could take until Monday …
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BAMAKO, Mali – Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an army checkpoint in Timbuktu early Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers and injuring one, the government said. Another soldier is missing and a search has been launched for the extremists who carried out the attacks with automatic weapons, Mali’s government said in …
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