MANAMA, Bahrain – Bahraini authorities have banned the country's main opposition newspaper in a widening effort to muzzle anti-government media.
The newspaper Al-Wasat did not publish Sunday after a message on state TV saying Bahrain's Information Ministry has ordered the paper to shut down...
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Greg Gould and Aurelio Tine say they just wanted to share their wedding plans.
So they went one of the largest papers in New Hampshire, where gay marriage is legal and generally accepted, to work up a wedding...
Newspaper links felon to Fla. nightclubs
PALM BEACH, Fla., -- A man with a criminal past has ties to several Florida bars, including a strip club linked to a sex slavery investigation, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reports.
The newspaper reported Sunday its own investigation revealed state...
More refugees sailing for Australia
MELBOURNE, Australian officials are calling up reserve forces warning naval personnel to expect a surge of asylum-seeking refugees and, authorities said.
The government has received intelligence reports indicating as many as 12 boats, carrying perhaps 800...
39 die in Mexican violence
MAZATLAN, Mexico, (UPI) -- Twenty-nine inmates were killed in a prison melee and at least 10 police officers died in shootouts Monday in Mexico, authorities said.
A spokesman for the Sinaloa state attorney general said 29 prisoners were either shot to death or...
Spirit cancels Sunday departures
MIAMI, (UPI) -- Spirit Airlines, faced with the second day of a pilots' strike, canceled all departures Sunday, the U.S. airline said.
The Miami-area-headquartered airline said in a release it had offered pilots 30 percent pay increases totaling $70 million...