SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico is preparing to welcome the world’s two largest cruise ships for the first time next year. The executive director of the island’s Tourism Company says Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas will bring an estimated 60,000 passengers to …
Read More »
CAIRO – Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities says American archeologists have discovered a 3000-year-old tomb with beautifully painted walls belonging to a nobleman who guarded the temple of the ancient deity Amun. Tuesday’s statement says the tomb, found near the southern city of Luxor, dates back to the New Kingdom of …
Read More »
MEXICO CITY – A Mexican court has ordered alleged drug lord Servando Gomez to stand trial on drug and organized-crime charges. The national Judiciary Council said late Wednesday the court had found enough evidence to warrant a trial of the alleged leader of the Knights Templar cartel on charges of …
Read More »
JOHANNESBURG – Humans have looked to a variety of animals to help detect explosives. Research in South Africa showing that elephants can identify explosives by smell follows a long tradition of such experiments. Dogs are commonly used to sniff out explosives, contraband and other illegal items. A group called APOPO …
Read More »
MADRID – Police say they have arrested the chief executive officer of a bank in the tiny country of Andorra on suspicion of money laundering following U.S. allegations that funds were laundered for groups from China, Russia and Venezuela. An Andorran police official says Joan Pau Miquel Prats of Banca …
Read More »
BAUCHI, Nigeria – Witnesses say Boko Haram extremists have attacked a Nigerian town and killed 11 people who had just returned home after the military reclaimed the town. Resident Mohammed Umara said troops from Cameroon immediately crossed the border and repelled Wednesday’s assault on Gamboru-Ngala within an hour. Umara and …
Read More »
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Greek border police say they have rescued about 70 migrants stranded on a berm on the Greek-Turkish border after they crossed the river dividing the two countries and found the fields on the Greek side flooded following days of heavy rainfall. The migrants, including women and children, …
Read More »
BERLIN – Soren Kam, a former SS officer wanted for war crimes in his native Denmark, has died in Germany. He was 93. The Simon Wiesenthal Center counted Kam among its top targets for the killing of an anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Copenhagen in 1943. The center’s top Nazi hunter, …
Read More »
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – State media in Ivory Coast says two soldiers have been killed in a raid on military posts in the southwest of the country. The Ivorian Press Agency said the attack began early Saturday morning in the town of Grabo, near the border with Liberia. The soldiers …
Read More »
NEAK LOEUNG, Cambodia – Hun Sen, Cambodia’s tough and wily prime minister, marked 30 years in power Wednesday, one of just a handful of political strongmen worldwide who have managed to cling to their posts for three decades. Since first taking up the job of prime minister at age 33, …
Read More »