ACTOR JUSSIE SMOLLETT DUE FOR ARRAIGNMENT IN CHICAGO ON HOAX CHARGES

CHICAGO - Former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was due in court on Monday for arraignment on renewed felony charges that he made false...

KUWAIT, BAHRAIN, IRAQ REPORT CORONAVIRUS CASES LINKED TO IRAN

DUBAI - Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq on Monday recorded their first new coronavirus cases, all people who had been in Iran, which raised...

LESOTHO PM IN COURT ON SUSPICION OF MURDERING WIFE, REQUESTS IMMUNITY

MASERU - Lesotho's high court will decide if Prime Minister Thomas Thabane can claim immunity from a charge that he murdered his wife...

MERKEL'S CRISIS-HIT CDU SETS APRIL 25 CONGRESS TO PICK NEW LEADER -SOURCES

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats will convene a special congress on April 25 to pick a new leader, participants...

BRITAIN WILL COMPLY WITH NORTHERN IRELAND PROTOCOL - PM'S SPOKESMAN

LONDON - Britain will comply with the obligations set out in the so-called Northern Ireland protocol with the European Union but does...

MYANMAR STUDENTS FACE CHARGES OVER INTERNET SHUTDOWN PROTEST: STUDENT UNION

YANGON - A Myanmar student union said on Monday police were seeking to press charges against nine of its members for organizing a protest...

FIFTH PERSON DIES IN CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN NORTHERN ITALY - OFFICIAL

ROME - A fifth person infected with the coronavirus has died in Italy, the chief of the Civil Protection agency said on Monday, with...

ISRAELI STRIKE IN DAMASCUS KILLED 2 ISLAMIC JIHAD MEMBERS -GROUP

GAZA - Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel on Monday after an Israeli air strike in Damascus killed two members...

SOUTH KOREA SEEKS ‘SPEEDY RESUMPTION' OF U.S.-NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TALKS

GENEVA - South Korea's foreign minister called on Monday for a quick resumption of stalled U.S.-North Korean nuclear talks, adding...

UK PM JOHNSON HAS FULL CONFIDENCE IN HIS INTERIOR MINISTER - SPOKESMAN

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has full confidence in his interior minister, Priti Patel, and she has a "strong" working...

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K. SONU GAIND: THERE'S A PRICE TO PAY FOR PROVIDING MAID TO THOSE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

A new study that found that those who use Canada's medical assistance in dying program tend to be wealthier recently made national...

WEINSTEIN JURY TO KEEP DELIBERATING AFTER DEADLOCK ON MOST SERIOUS CHARGES

NEW YORK - Jurors in the sexual assault trial of former movie producer Harvey Weinstein are expected to begin their fifth day of deliberations...

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BUTTIGIEG COURTS SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK VOTERS WITH HIS VETERAN STATUS

CHARLESTON - Pete Buttigieg, the only veteran in the top tier of candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, is turning...

FAMILY OF TOP EGYPTIAN MILITANT SAYS IT HAS NOT BEEN NOTIFIED OF HIS EXECUTION - LAWYER

CAIRO - The family of the convicted top Egyptian militant Hisham al-Ashmawy has not been formally notified about his execution on Monday,...

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES, RAYTHEON OFFER EU CONCESSIONS OVER $120 BLN MERGER DEAL

BRUSSELS - United Technologies Corp and Raytheon Co have offered concessions to address EU antitrust concerns about their plan to create...

‘NAMASTE TRUMP': INDIA'S NATIONALIST LEADER HOLDS HUGE RALLY FOR PRESIDENT'S VISIT

AHMEDABAD - Donald Trump was cheered by more than 100,000 Indians at the opening of the world's biggest cricket stadium on Monday,...

ELLIOT HERZIG: JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IS ONLINE THESE DAYS. WHY NOT COURTS?

Seven years ago, then-Supreme Court chief justice Beverly McLachlin wrote that we are “increasingly failing in our responsibility to...

IRAQ REPORTS FIRST CORONAVIRUS CASE IN IRANIAN STUDENT

Iraq's first coronavirus case, an Iranian theology student, has been detected in the holy city of Najaf, the health ministry said on...