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Matthew, a violent Category 4 storm packing 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds, is due to pound the western tip of Haiti in the early hours of Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Already, late on Monday, the outer bands of the cyclone reached the area, flooding dozens of houses in the town of Les Anglais w...	Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman. The Category 4 storm, with 140 mph ((220 km/h) maximum sustained winds), is heading towards western Haiti, eastern Cuba, and the southeastern and central Bahamas.
By Ricardo Garcia Vilanova (AFP/File) Rome (AFP) - More than 5,600 migrants were rescued from distress boats off Libya Monday in one of the largest tallies for a single day since the current migration crisis erupted, Italy's coast guard said. Italy's coastguard said at least nine migrants had died and a pregnant woman...	The Italian coast guard rescues more than 5,600 migrants, in one of the biggest operations in a single day.
Japanese microbiologist Yoshinori Ohsumi on Monday won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on cell autophagy, a process that helps the body remove unwanted proteins but can also lead to conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.</s>Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine ...	Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism called autophagy in the body's defenses where cells degrade and recycle their components.
“This is not a decision that was taken lightly,” John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said in a statement issued Monday. However, U.S. President Barack Obama has been loath to get the United States more deeply involved in a third war in the Islamic world and U.S. officials have said he is unlikely to do so with ...	The Obama administration through the U.S. State Department announces the suspension of bilateral talks with Russia about the cessation of hostilities in Syria, as Russia and the Syrian government continue to pursue a military course despite the ceasefire accord.
Workers load uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) civilian fuel made from American military plutonium on a boat heading to the US, at the port in Cherbourg, northern France, on March 22, 2005 (AFP Photo/Mychele Daniau) Moscow (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered a halt to an agreement with the Uni...	Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends the 2000 treaty with the United States on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium (Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement) (in Russian).
The United States Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear a bid by President Barack Obama’s administration to revive his plan to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4-4 in June. The eight-member court, which had stymied Mr Obama’s proposed overha...	The U.S. Supreme Court declines to rehear President Barack Obama's 2014 plan (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4–4 in June. The justices' June 23 decision (United States v. Texas) is final.
At one stage, the FARC was positioned close to the capital and the state was on the verge of collapse. “To the Colombian people who dream of peace, count on us, peace will triumph.” Santos recently said a “no” vote would mean a return to war, and opinion polls had predicted he would win comfortably. Colombians narrowl...	FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño (Timoleón) says his troops will honor its commitments to the Colombian government, including the permanent cease-fire, despite voters rejection of the peace accord in Sunday's referendum. President Juan Manuel Santos calls the country's political parties to an emergency meeting.
QUETTA: At least four women belonging to the ethnic Hazara Shia community were killed and one injured when unidentified assailants opened fire on a bus on Kirani road near Pud Gali Chowk area of the provincial capital on Tuesday evening. "The bus was stopped and the women were shot because of their ethnicity," said pro...	An apparent sectarian attack by two motorcyclists who open fire on a bus traveling to Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan, kills four women from Pakistan's Shia Hazara and injures two other people.
The greenback reached a 13-day high against a basket of major currencies, helped by gains against the yen and by an upbeat survey of the US manufacturing sector that drove investors to increase their bets on a rise in US interest rates by the end of the year. In Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May told her Conservative...	Following the June 23 Brexit vote, the exchange rate for the British pound reaches a 31-year low against the United States dollar.
"Poland considers the negotiations regarding the offset agreement with Airbus Helicopters related to the contract for the purchase of Caracal multi-role helicopters for the Polish army as finished," the ministry said. Poland's previous centrist government, beaten by the eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party in electi...	Poland's Development Ministry cancels the April 2015 tender contract for the purchase of 50 Caracal helicopters from Airbus Helicopters, worth US$ 3.5 billion.
</s>Men push a motorbike through a street flooded by a river that overflowed from heavy rains caused by Hurricane Matthew in Leogane, Haiti, Wednesday. Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the storm began battering ...	Weather forecasters track Hurricane Matthew as it makes landfall in Haiti and issue hurricane warnings for Cuba and the Bahamas.
(CNN) A few months after the massive 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I stood on the terrace of my hotel and looked out onto the Champs de Mars plaza, a central square in Port-au-Prince that had become an encampment for people who'd lost their homes. It was May and the skies looked ominous as a storm hurtled toward the Haitia...	A bridge in Haiti connecting Port-au-Prince with southern Haiti collapses. The storm has killed at least nine people in the Caribbean.
„Matthew“ hat auf Kuba schwere Schäden verursacht: Bäume stürzten um, Straßen wurden überschwemmt. Foto: Alejandro Ernesto dpatopbilder - epa05571417 Cubans recover from the damage and havoc caused by hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, 05 October 2016. Hurricane Matthew left serious damage at the eastern end of the is...	Hurricane Matthew makes landfall near the eastern tip of Cuba.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and ordered an evacuation of more than a million people in coastal areas starting Wednesday afternoon in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew. Haley pleaded with people to get 100 miles away from the coast, but did not say if t...	South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley urges 1.1 million coastal residents to evacuate before Matthew hits this weekend.
Washington (CNN) Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson, in an interview published Wednesday, discussed the massive loss of human life in Syria and equated killings from the government of Bashar al-Assad and those caused by the United States. Johnson, pressed in his interview with The New York Times , on whether he vi...	Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson warns that one of its Wi-Fi enabled insulin pumps for diabetics (OneTouch Ping pump) is at risk of being hacked, causing an overdose.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures with a firing stance as he announces issuing side arms to army troopers during his visit to its headquarters in suburban Taguig city east of Manila, Philippines Tuesday Oct. 4, 2016 MANILA, Philippines — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told his U.S. ally Barack Obama ...	Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells U.S. President Barack Obama to "go to hell" after the United States refuses to sell some weapons to his country, while also acknowledging the cooperation of Russia and China.
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities on Tuesday suspended some 12,800 police officers from duty over their suspected links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen as Turkey pressed ahead with its vast crackdown on a network it says is behind the country's July 15 failed military coup. Aysenur Bahcekapili, a lawmake...	Turkish authorities suspend nearly 12,800 police officers from duty over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
INSTANBUL: Turkish police on Tuesday raided the Istanbul headquarters of prominent pro-Kurdish television channel IMC TV, cutting all its transmissions in line with a previous shutdown order. In dramatic scenes, police raided the headquarters of IMC TV and stopped broadcasts despite protests by staff who thronged the ...	Turkish security forces raid the headquarters of IMC TV in Istanbul, cutting its transmissions while it was live on air, for allegedly broadcasting "terror propaganda".
BERLIN — German prosecutors say they have dropped an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, citing insufficient evidence that he committed any crime. In April, the German government granted a Turkish request to allow the possible prosecution of Jan Boehmermann f...	German prosecutors drop a case against comedian Jan Böhmermann, who had been indicted for a satirical poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
REUTERS/Mike Blake In a Sept. 29 letter viewed by Reuters on Tuesday, Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, demanded that Wells Fargo Chief Executive John Stumpf provide a “full accounting” of customers affected. Discussions between congressional staffers and Wells Fargo “have indicated that the fraudulent activi...	The scandal over improper practices of unauthorized accounts at Wells Fargo extends to thousands of small-business owners.
Advisers for the candidates suggest there could be fireworks during the 90-minute affair, although vice presidential debates rarely change the direction of a presidential race. Hillary Clinton's Democratic Party running-mate Tim Kaine will go head-to-head against Republican candidate Mike Pence at Longwood University i...	Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, and the Governor of Indiana Mike Pence hold the first and only vice-presidential debate of the 2016 presidential election at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
Nigel Farage has ruled himself out of the UKIP leadership contest Nigel Farage has told Sky News he is technically still UKIP leader after Diane James quit the job after just 18 days in charge. "It has become clear that I do not have sufficient authority, nor the full support of all my MEP colleagues and party officer...	Diane James resigns as the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party after just 18 days in charge.
Both the Colombian government and FARC rebels declare they remain committed to revive negotiations after voters rejected peace agreement BOGOTA: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos opened a new national dialogue Monday to seek peace with FARC rebels as both sides scrambled to revive a peace deal to end the half-cen...	Colombian government and FARC representatives meet in Havana, and President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with presidential predecessors Álvaro Uribe, the accord opposition leader, and Andrés Pastrana Arango, to continue negotiations to end the 52-year war that has killed around a quarter of a million people.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studies on exotic matter that could result in improved materials for electronics or quantum computers. The academy said the laureates’ work in the 1970s and ’80s ...	British scientists, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and John M. Kosterlitz, are awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".
Sharapova was initially banned for two years by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced the sanction by nine months, saying she bore "no significant fault or negligence." The International Tennis Federation told CNN in a statement Wednesday: "We have reviewed, and...	In an appeals review, the International Tennis Federation states that tennis players will not be able to plead ignorance if they test positive for banned substances. The Court of Arbitration for Sport reduces Maria Sharapova's two-year ban to 15 months. She tested positive for meldonium.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s Jose Cuervo, the world’s biggest tequila producer, has delayed its planned initial public offering and will wait until after the U.S. presidential election before going ahead, three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. A bottle of Jose Cuervo Tequila rests on a shelf in Me...	Mexican tequila producer Jose Cuervo will delay its IPO until after the U.S. presidential election due to concern over potential market volatility.
SEOUL, South Korea — A typhoon that battered South Korea this week killed seven people and left three others missing, the country's safety agency said Thursday. Typhoon Chaba caused strong winds and heavy rain in southeastern South Korea and the southern resort island of Jeju on Tuesday and Wednesday. The storm later d...	Chaba leaves at least four people dead, and three others missing in South Korea.
An Israel Air Force F-16I fighter jet during a training exercise in Israel, in 2013. An Israeli Air Force pilot was killed Wednesday as he ejected from his F-16I fighter jet after returning from an airstrike mission in the Gaza Strip. The Israel Air Force struck three Hamas sites in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday...	An Israeli Air Force F-16 crashes while attempting to land at Ramon Airbase in southern Israel, killing the pilot. A navigator who was also in the aircraft successfully ejects and escapes the incident unharmed.
MIAMI, Florida (JTA) — Jewish institutions here were bracing for the worst as officials issued dire warnings about Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm that approached the state’s Atlantic coast Thursday evening and was to move up the coast over the next 24 hours. The National Hurricane Center called Matthew, which w...	Hurricane Matthew kills at least 26 people on the island of Hispaniola; 22 in Haiti and four more in the Dominican Republic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicts the storm, currently a Category 3 with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h), will strengthen as it moves across the Bahamas tonight and tomorr...
(CNN) The United Nations Security Council Thursday formally approved the nomination of former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres to be the next secretary-general. The recommendation now goes to the 193-member UN General Assembly for final ratification. Guterres, who was head of the UN's refugee agency for 10 ye...	The United Nations Security Council affirms the first step in the election of Portuguese António Guterres as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. If ratified by the General Assembly, he will take office on January 1, 2017.
“What once seemed unthinkable is now unstoppable,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement. The Agreement will now enter into force in time for the Climate Conference (COP 22) in Morocco in November, where countries will convene the first Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement. “There’s a lot of hard wo...	The Paris Agreement on climate change which governs greenhouse gas emissions will take effect in November.
The Russian government said Wednesday that as a countermeasure to the U.S. sanctions imposed on it over events in Ukraine, it was putting aside a nuclear and energy-related research pact with the United States. The government also said on its website that an agreement between the state nuclear energy firm Rosatom and t...	Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends the 2013 nuclear agreement with the United States concerning uranium research.
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military said Tuesday it had beefed up its forces in Syria with state-of-the-art air defense missiles, an announcement that follows Washington’s move to suspend contacts with Russia over Syria. The deployment immediately raised questions in the Pentagon, which wondered about its purpose. Russi...	France seeks United States and Russian support for a Security Council resolution to impose a new truce that will allow aid into Aleppo, which has experienced two weeks of heavy Syrian and Russian bombing of rebel-held areas.
WASHINGTON — The FBI secretly arrested a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor in August and, according to law-enforcement officials, is investigating whether he stole and disclosed highly classified computer code developed by the agency to hack into the networks of foreign governments. Harold Thomas Martin ...	The United States Department of Justice charges a top secret security clearance National Security Agency contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, with theft of government property and unauthorised removal of "highly classified" materials.
The 70 people arrested were among more than 700 detained when police raided makeshift call centers - a bungalow, an office building and a shopping center in the Mumbai suburb of Thane - late on Tuesday. Assistant police commissioner Bharat Shelke told Reuters the alleged scammers posed as U.S. Internal Revenue Service ...	Police in the western Indian city of Thane arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding U.S. citizens from a fake call center.
WILLEMSTAD – The Supreme Electoral Council (SEC) held its first briefing today at 12 o’clock. According to Pacheco Römer, chairman of the SEC, up until that moment, 21,571 people voted which represents about 20% of the total voters on the island. “This is a good sign because normally this is 12 to 15%,” said Römer duri...	Voters in Curaçao go to the polls to elect the 21 members of the Estates of Curaçao. The election had been delayed from September 30 due to Hurricane Matthew.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing the world’s smallest machines, work that could revolutionize computer technology and lead to a new type of battery. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard “Ben” Feringa share t...	Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scotsman Sir Fraser Stoddart, and Dutchman Ben Feringa win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research into nanotechnology.
Image copyright BLUE ORIGIN Image caption The capsule pushes itself up and away from the booster Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has furthered his ambition to launch people into space by practising a critical safety manoeuvre on his New Shepard vehicle. The rocket and capsule system launched normally from its Van Horn, Texas,...	Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin tests its New Shepard reusable launch system in Van Horn, Texas.
Six people were killed in an attack in northeast Kenya on Thursday by suspected Islamist militants from the Somali group al Shabaab, the regional governor and Kenyan media reported, the latest strike in an area by the militants. He said the “attack occurred near the border and was targeting non locals but our officers ...	An al-Shabaab attack on a village near the Kenyan town of Mandera results in six deaths.
Image copyright LCC Image caption Opposition judicial officials and a rebel commander were reportedly among the dead At least 29 people, most of them rebel fighters, have been killed in a bombing near Syria's border with Turkey, activists say. The Islamic State group considers Atmeh a priority location because Islamic...	A bombing in rebel controlled Atme, Idlib Governorate, near the Syria–Turkey border, kills at least 29 people, mostly rebel fighters, and injures dozens more. ISIL claims responsibility.
Kurdish militant groups have more frequently targeted police and the Turkish armed forces, who are currently carrying out operations against the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the south-east as a three-decade insurgency continues.</s>At least 5 hurt in bomb attack near Istanbul police station ISTANBUL — ...	A motorcycle bomb in the Yenibosna neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, injures 10 civilians.
Niger troops patrol near Diffa on June 16, 2016 following attacks by Boko Haram fighters in the region. By Issouf Sanogo (AFP/File) Niamey (AFP) - Twenty-two soldiers were killed in an attack probably carried out by jihadists, on a camp in Niger sheltering Malian refugees, a security official told AFP on Friday. "Some...	Unknown assailants attack a refugee camp near the village of Tassalit, in Niger's Tahoua Region, killing at least 22 soldiers.
Hurricane Matthew is the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade and is currently sweeping its way up the eastern seaboard of the United States. The storm has already wreaked havoc in Haiti, leaving hundreds dead, buildings flattened and thousands of victims cut off from relief efforts. It has now moved on to Ameri...	Hurricane Matthew moves towards the United States with hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated from the states of Florida and South Carolina.
This article is part of our premium content. You have exceeded your 10 free articles for this month. A subscription is required to access Times of Malta content from overseas. Register to get 10 free articles per month. Subscribe to gain access to our premium content and services. Your subscription will also enable ...	The death toll is at least 140 people with 136 in Haiti.
ISLAMABAD -- Despite objections from religious hard-liners, lawmakers Thursday took the first significant move to curb mounting numbers of "honor" killings in Pakistan, stiffening the penalties and closing a loophole that allowed such killers to go free. But public outrage over the practice has also been growing as pro...	Pakistan's government removes a loophole allowing those behind so-called honor killings to go free with the new legislation instead requiring a mandatory life sentence.
Steven Woolfe, who on Wednesday announced his intention to lead the right-wing UKIP party, collapsed after the incident Thursday at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, and remained in hospital overnight into Friday. Steven Woolfe, who on Wednesday announced his intention to lead the right-wing, anti-immigrat...	An altercation with a fellow UKIP MEP inside the European Parliament leaves UK Independence Party, Member of the European Parliament, and current UKIP party leadership favorite Steven Woolfe hospitalized.
LES CAYES, Haiti — Haiti's death toll climbed Thursday as rescue crews began reaching remote corners cut off when Hurricane Matthew slammed into the country's southwest peninsula, the first Category 4 storm to hit Haiti in more than a half century. We feel like he's somebody who can really lead the efforts in Les Cayes...	Hurricane Matthew hits the southeastern United States as the death toll in Haiti rises to at least 877.
BANGKOK: Malaysian activist, Dr Fauziah Mohd Hassan was happy and cheerful when she arrived at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport here following her release by the Israeli regime. Her arrival in Bangkok from Tel Aviv was greeted by her husband, Professor Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali who had arrived from Kuala Lumpur, an...	Authorities confirm that a wing part found in Mauritius in May is part of the aircraft from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has said he is deeply honoured to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end a five-decade civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people.</s>BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end Latin...	The Nobel Prize committee awards Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220 thousand Colombians and displaced close to six million people.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday lifted U.S. economic sanctions on the former pariah state of Myanmar, the culmination of years of rapprochement that Obama has worked to facilitate. Obama had announced plans to lift the sanctions last month, when Myanmar’s new civilian leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Au...	The Obama administration lifts U.S. sanctions on Myanmar by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to U.S. national security.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government for the first time on Friday formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election. The official statement said the US intelligence community “is confident that the Russian government directed th...	The Obama administration formally accuses the Russian government of cyber attacks against the U.S. Democratic Party in influencing presidential election.
(Reuters) - Mylan NV (MYL.O) on Friday said it will pay $465 million to settle questions of whether it underpaid U.S. government healthcare programs by misclassifying its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment, which has come under intense scrutiny after a series of drastic price increases. EpiPen auto-injection epinephri...	Mylan pays US$465 million to settle its underpayment to U.S. government healthcare programs by misclassifying its epinephrine autoinjector emergency allergy treatment.
Morocco's Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) won 125 seats in Friday's parliamentary election with rivals Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) winning 102 seats, and conservative Istiqlal party securing 46 seats, according to the interior minister citing final results. The vote for the 395-seat parliament w...	Voters in Morocco go to the polls for a general election with the ruling Justice and Development Party winning the most seats.
In addition to using the timeworn caveat "if anyone was offended," Trump modified his apology with the excuse that he had merely indulged in "locker room banter." "Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course," said Trump in a written statement, adding, "not even close." But after The Washington Post reveal...	Donald Trump issues a statement calling the conversation "locker room banter" and writes, "I apologize if anyone was offended."
WASHINGTON: Excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches, including those to Wall Street, were leaked Friday, a revelation that may perpetuate criticism that she is an out-of-touch Washington insider and could create trouble for her in the final weeks of her campaign for president. “Obviously, I’m kind of far removed be...	WikiLeaks releases over 2000 emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman and former Counselor to the President John Podesta.
SANAA (Reuters) - Saudi-led warplanes struck a funeral at a community hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the country’s Houthi-run administration said on Saturday, but the coalition denied any role in the attack. Jamie McGoldrick, a UN official in charge of humanitarian efforts in the country, said more than 525 were inj...	Saudi-led coalition jets launch airstrikes on civilians at the funeral of the father of the Houthi government's Interior Minister in Sana'a, killing at least 140 people, and injuring over 500 more. One of the dead is the mayor of Sana'a, Abdul-Qader Hilal.
world Updated: Oct 08, 2016 22:32 IST Bangladeshi security officials on Saturday killed 11 suspected militants of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in three separate raids as the country reinforced its counter-terrorism efforts. The suspects were members of the banned group Jumatul Mujahedeen Banglades...	Raids by security forces on Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh in Gazipur leave 11 militants dead.
CHARLESTON, S.C./SAVANNAH, Ga.—Hurricane Matthew slammed into South Carolina on Saturday, packing a diminished yet still powerful punch after killing almost 900 people in Haiti and causing major flooding and widespread power outages as it skirted Florida and Georgia. (CNN) After battering Florida's east coast, a weaken...	Hurricane Matthew, responsible for killing 13 people and knocking out power to 2.2 million households and businesses in the Southeastern United States, is now a Category 1 hurricane (75 mph;120 km/h winds) approaching the North Carolina coast.
WARSAW, Poland — Poland and Estonia expressed concerns Saturday that Russia has moved nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic missiles into Kaliningrad, a Russian region on the Baltic Sea, with one official saying Russia appears eager to dominate that body of water. Russia says the missiles are being deployed as part of reg...	Russian President Vladimir Putin deploys the nuclear-capable Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile system to the Russian Kaliningrad exclave between Poland and Lithuania.
UNITED NATIONS -- Rival resolutions on Syria backed by the West and Russia were defeated Saturday in the U.N. Security Council, offering no relief to the besieged city of Aleppo and leaving the key powers even more divided over a course of action in the war-ravaged country. Instead of Russia being the lone veto on a re...	Russia vetoes a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for a ceasefire in Aleppo. China, which had backed Russia's four previous Syria-related vetoes, abstains.
German police have raided an apartment building in the eastern city of Chemnitz Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 after receiving information someone may be planning a bombing attack. BERLIN -- German police searched nationwide Sunday for a 22-year-old Syrian man believed to have been preparing a bombing attack, who slipped throu...	After authorities in Chemnitz, Germany, uncover a suspected terrorist bombing plot, police seek the suspect.
Palm Springs, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued the following statement regarding the deaths of Palm Springs Police Department Officers Jose Gilbert Vega and Lesley Zerebny: “Officers Vega and Zerebny were killed today doing what they do every day – protecting their community. The shooting occurre...	A gunman shoots three police officers in Palm Springs, California, leaving two dead and one injured.
TBILISI (Reuters) - The ruling party in Georgia decisively won parliamentary elections, firming its grip on power in the former Soviet nation, near-complete results showed on Sunday. Georgia's former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (L) and Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili wave at a rally of Georgian Dream party a...	Voters in Georgia go to the polls for a legislative election.
Turkey has been rocked by a wave of bomb attacks since last summer that have killed hundreds of people and been blamed on either the PKK or the Islamic State group Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb on Sunday outside a military station in southeast Turkey, killing eight soldiers and wounding five others, Turkey’s ...	A suspected PKK car bomb kills at least 17 people, and injures 27 others in Turkey's southeast Hakkâri Province.
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian motorist launched a shooting spree near the Israeli police headquarters in Jerusalem Sunday, wounding eight people, two of them seriously, before being shot dead, Israeli police and emergency services said. The attacker sped towards a busy stop of the city's light rail system and opened fire, ...	A shooting takes place in Jerusalem that kills two people, including a police officer, injuring six others. The attack was carried out by a Palestinian gunman who opened fire from a vehicle on people waiting at a train station and then the nearby police headquarters in Jerusalem. Israeli police kill the gunman.
A Saudi warship fires a shell during Gulf Shield 1exercise by members of Royal Saudi Navy, east of Saudi Arabia, on Sunday (Reuters photo) RIYADH — Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen fell short of a US warship patrolling the Red Sea off the coast of the war-torn country, the US navy said on Monday. ...	The United States Navy's destroyer USS Mason comes under missile attack in the Red Sea, off the coast of Yemen. The two missiles, fired from Yemeni territory controlled by Iranian-backed Houthis, impacted the water well before reaching the ship, according to Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis named 17 new cardinals Sunday — three of them American moderates, including Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich and Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin — in a clear signal to the conservative U.S. church hierarchy that he values pastors focused more on mercy than morals. Tobin’s nomination...	Pope Francis announces the upcoming creation of 17 new Cardinals; 13 of them will be under the age of 80 and thus able to vote in a future papal conclave to select the new Pope.
WILLISTON, Vt. — A man driving the wrong way on an interstate highway in Vermont spawned several crashes that left five people dead, an unknown number injured and at least two vehicles in flames, including a stolen police cruiser, state police said Sunday. Local news outlets are reporting those killed were teenagers r...	A man driving the wrong way on Interstate 89 in Williston, Vermont, kills five people, all local high school juniors.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption A torched bus in the Sebeta region of Ethiopia Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency following months of anti-government protests by members of the country's two largest ethnic groups. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn declared a six-month state of emergency on Su...	Ethiopia's government declares a six-month state of emergency amid continuing protests, especially in the restive Oromia Region.
• Celebrities tweet support for Hillary Clinton as she takes on Donald Trump in second US presidential debate Trump would 'throw Clinton in jail' if he was in charge Trump said Clinton should be in jail over her use of a private email server while she was US secretary of state. Trump said he was embarrassed by the vi...	Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hold the second presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential election at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in a "town meeting" format.
It's seven years since Lithuania became a trailblazer for European Union austerity amid an unprecedented slump. Despite uninterrupted economic growth since, disquiet over pay and opportunities in the tiny Baltic nation has left Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius' job in the balance. While narrowly leading polls befor...	Voters in Lithuania vote to elect representatives for the 141-seat parliament.
Bai Enpei given suspended death sentence for amassing millions in bribes and will have no chance of parole under changes to the criminal code</s>BEIJING (AP) — A former Chinese provincial Communist Party boss has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve as part of the country’s ongoing crackdown on corruption a...	A court sentences former Communist Party Secretary of Yunnan province, Bai Enpei, to death for corruption and amassing wealth of unclear origin.
REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom News about the king’s health is closely monitored in Thailand, where King Bhumibol is widely revered, and the wording of palace statements on his health is intensely scrutinized. The king has been treated for various ailments over the past year at Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital - his home for muc...	Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, the world's longest reigning monarch, is in unstable condition after a hemodialysis treatment.
The Taliban militants group conducted a suicide car bombing in the vicinity of Lashkargah city as they attempted to enter the provincial capital of southern Helmand province. The militants attacked security checkpoints inside the city of Lashkargah on Monday, said the Interior Ministry spokesman, Sediq Sediqq. Sediqq s...	A suicide bombing kills at least 14 people, mostly police officers, in Lashkargah, Helmand Province, as Taliban insurgents advance upon the Afghan city.
Gunman kills 14 at shrine in Afghan capital Kabul, police say Updated At least 14 people have been killed after a gunman in a police uniform opened fire on worshippers gathered at a shrine in the Afghan capital of Kabul for a Shiite holy day, officials said. Thirteen civilians and one police officer died and 36 peopl...	A gunman kills 14 people at a Shi'ite shrine in Kabul on a holy day.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international recognition and an honorary Oscar, has died. Wajda’s career spanned 60 years, winning prizes at the Cannes and Berlin film festiva...	Polish film director and recipient of an Academy Honorary Award Andrzej Wajda dies at the age of 90.
STOCKHOLM: British-born Oliver Hart and Finland-born Bengt Holmstrom won the 2016 Nobel Economics Prize for their contributions to contract theory, helping the understanding of issues like the performance-based pay for top executives. After the announcement, he tweeted: The prize givers said the award reflected the...	British-born American Oliver Hart and Finnish Bengt Holmström win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on the science of contracts.
The Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) said in an emailed statement Tuesday, it is investigating the possibility the Note 7 smartphones may have a new defect. Samsung is asking owners of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to do something crazy: “power down and stop using the device.” In an age when smartphone...	Samsung recalls and suspends production of its reformulated-version of Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to the same persistent problem with battery fires and explosions.
Now weakened, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007 unleashed torrential rains and powerful winds as it churned slowly north after pummeling the southeastern coast of the United States, killing at least 11 people in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina since Thursday and leaving more than two million businesses an...	The death toll in the United States from Hurricane Matthew rises to 27 with at least five people still missing in North Carolina. Governor Pat McCrory warns that the state's swollen rivers are still rising with flooding continuing to pose threats to life and property this week. The storm, downgraded to a post-tropical ...
Six people died of Cholera in a hospital in the southern town of Randel, which is inland near a river, and another seven died in the western coastal town of Anse-d´Ainault, the officials said, likely as flood waters mixed with sewage. In one hospital in Jeremie, which is in Grand-Anse, there are at least 40 suspected c...	Matthew's death toll in Haiti rises to at least one thousand, with victims being buried in mass graves. An unknown number of people remain missing and authorities report that cholera is spreading in the hardest hit-areas in the country's southwest.
KABUL (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed on Tuesday when a gunman in a police uniform opened fire on worshippers gathered at a shrine in the Afghan capital of Kabul for a Shi’ite holy day, officials said. Thirteen civilians and one police officer died and 36 people were wounded in the attack, said ministry of t...	A gunman, reportedly wearing an Afghan police uniform, kills at least 14 people and wounds dozens more in the Shiite Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul on the beginning of Ashura. Police kill the attacker.
Armed men believed to be from the long-oppressed Rohingya Muslim minority launched a coordinated assault on three border police posts in the early hours Sunday, killing nine police, injuring five and making off with dozens of weapons and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition. Military personnel and police reinforcement...	In a third day of fighting, an attack in Rakhine State kills four Myanmar soldiers.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A ballistic missile launched from Yemen apparently targeted a Saudi air base near the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi and rebel media reported Monday, the deepest strike yet into the kingdom by Shiite rebels and their allies. The deliberations about how to retaliate to the missile launches ...	The Obama administration through the U.S. Defense Department says it will take appropriate action against those responsible for October 9 unsuccessful cruise missile attack, apparently fired from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen, upon the USS Mason.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Shelling was also reported in the capital, Damascus, with mortar shells fired by opposition...	The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel official report that Russian jets have resumed heavy bombing, and, in total, have now killed at least 50 civilians in villages surrounding rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Samsung said it is halting sales of the star-crossed Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after a spate of fires involving new devices that were supposed to be safe replacements for recalled models. Before the report of Samsung’s production suspension emerged, AT&T, one of the largest phone retailers in the U....	Samsung announces an end of production of the Galaxy Note 7 after continued problems with its battery.
However, the pound’s weakness boosted the UK’s FTSE 100 share index – which features companies that make a significant proportion of their profits in dollars – as it closed at 7,097.5, near its record closing high of 7,104 last year. She added: “There are many barriers to a pound recovery, including low interest rates ...	Following the Brexit vote and the subsequent drop in the exchange rate of the British pound to U.S. dollar, the FTSE 100 Index reaches an all-time intra-day high of 7,129.
Cybersecurity giant Symantec Corp. (SYMC) announced Tuesday that a second hacking group has launched a mission to rob banks using fraudulent messages on the financial messaging platform SWIFT, reports Reuters. The group, dubbed “Odinaff,” has used the same approach that yielded $81 million from an attack earlier this y...	Computer security firm Symantec warns a second hacking group, going by the name Odinaff, is trying to rob banks using fraudulent SWIFT messages, the same approach that yielded U.S.$81 million in February's attack on Bangladesh's central bank. So far, the group has infected 10 to 20 organizations with this malware.
She was found deep in the debris of four six-storey residential buildings more than 12 hours after they crumbled in Wenzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang, killing at least 22 people, state broadcaster CCTV said. The six-storey buildings collapsed in Wenzhou’s Lucheng industrial district and rescuers were verifyin...	A residential building collapses in the eastern China city of Wenzhou, leaving at least 22 people dead.
(CNN) Haitians in the areas worst hit by Hurricane Matthew are desperately awaiting assistance six days after the storm, as concerns grow about potential cholera outbreaks. Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in ...	The United Nations launches an emergency appeal for almost U.S.$120 million in life-saving help for 750,000 survivors in Haiti at risk of starvation and/or cholera.
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — A flight instructor and a student pilot had an altercation inside the cockpit of a small plane, and the instructor was unable to regain control from the trainee before the plane crashed near the headquarters of a military jet engine manufacturer, killing the student, a U.S. official familiar with...	Jordanian student pilot Feras Freitekh kills himself and attempts to kill his flight instructor, when their small Piper PA-34 Seneca airplane crashes in East Hartford Connecticut. Investigators conclude the crash was an intentional act motivated by suicide based on the surviving instructor who said there was an argumen...
SDSU students continue to study abroad in South America despite Zika threat The mosquito-borne Zika virus is an emerging health threat that is spreading globally. With no vaccine or treatment for the virus, San Diego State students who are studying abroad are encouraged to take precautions before traveling. Despite t...	The World Health Organization warns that the Zika virus will continue to spread across Asia with cases already reported in Singapore and Thailand.
Apple, Samsung take battle to US Supreme Court The epic legal battle pitting Apple against its bitter rival Samsung over the design of the iPhone reaches a new level Tuesday when it heads to the US Supreme Court. The high court is set to hear arguments over financial damages the South Korean smartphone giant owes Appl...	The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a patent dispute between Apple Inc. and Samsung concerning both company's smart phone designs (Samsung Electronics v. Apple (15-777)).
Feds Will Press Criminal Contempt Charges Against Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio Enlarge this image toggle caption Ross D. Franklin/AP Ross D. Franklin/AP Federal prosecutors will charge Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio with criminal contempt of court for violating a judge's order to stop immigration patrols that led to a co...	The Obama administration through the U.S. Department of Justice announces that they will file criminal contempt of court charges against Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for violating a judge's order to stop immigration patrols that led to a court finding of racial profiling. The charges carry a maximum pena...
Autopsy: Unarmed man shot by Tulsa police was high on PCP An unarmed black man shot dead by a white police officer after his car broke down on a city street last month was high on the hallucinogenic drug PCP in when he died, according to toxicology tests released by a medical examiner Tuesday. The office said the figu...	The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City reports that an unarmed black man, Terence Crutcher, shot dead on September 16, by a white police officer, Betty Jo Shelby, had acute PCP intoxication. Authorities charged her with first-degree manslaughter.
A Raisin In the Sun: Still Good A massive brick wall descends from the sky and surrounds Lena Younger's modest Chicago home on three sides. One little window is knocked out of the brick, and an American flag hangs off the sill like a tired dream. Set designer Michael Ganio's constant metaphor is loud, constant, imposi...	Astronomers announce that 2014 UZ224 is the third most distant Solar System object known from our Sun, currently over 90 times the Earth's distance from the Sun (90.8 AU or 8.44 billion miles), after Eris (96.2 AU) and V774104 (~103 AU).
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey can't be excluded from a possible operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul, Turkey's president said Tuesday, telling Iraq's leader to "know his place." "You are not my interlocutor, you are not at my level, you are not my equivalent, you are not of the same quality as me," Erdogan sai...	Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi rejects Turkey's claim that Turkish forces must be included in an operation to retake the militant-held city of Mosul.
(Hedayatullah Amid/European Pressphoto Agency) A second deadly attack on Shiite worshipers in two days killed at least 17 people and wounded 36 others when a remote-controlled bomb exploded outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan, as crowds in the capital and elsewhere gathered defiantly to commemorate one of Islam’s...	A bomb explosion among crowds of Shiite Muslims gathered to mark Ashura, one of their holiest commemorations, kills at least 12 people and wounds 28 others. Also, authorities revise the death toll to 17 from yesterday's attack on a Kabul Shiite shrine.
The superstar has confirmed to People magazine that she is indeed expecting her first baby at age 50. The star showed off her baby bump in a photo Wednesday, smiling in a white dress and cradling her belly. She told people, "We thank God for our blessing." She told People, “We thank God for our blessing.” In April, Ja...	American popstar Janet Jackson announces that she is pregnant with her first child at the age of 50.
SAN FRANCISCO — Wells Fargo’s embattled CEO John Stumpf has resigned, effective immediately, as the nation’s second-largest bank is roiled by a scandal over its sales practices. The San Francisco bank said Wednesday that Stumpf is retiring effective immediately and also relinquishing his title as chairman. Tolstedt ann...	John Stumpf resigns as CEO and chairman of Wells Fargo amid a scandal over its sales practices.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundi’s parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, a move no other country has taken despite complaints from Africa that the court disproportionately targets the continent. The decision escalates a bitter dispute with the international community...	The Parliament of Burundi votes overwhelmingly to withdraw Burundi from the Dutch-based International Criminal Court.

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