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DORTMUND, Germany (AP) -- The Latest on the explosions near the bus carrying German soccer team Borussia Dortmund (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" - a comment at odds with Hitler's use of gas chambers to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Oscar Munoz, CEO of United Airlines' parent company, sent employees a letter Tuesday that was more contrite than his statement a day earlier about a passenger being dragged from a plane at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Oscar Munoz, CEO of United Airlines' parent company, has released three written statements in response to the backlash against the company since a customer was dragged from an oversold flight Sunday evening at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The statement by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the reign of President Bashar Assad's family "is coming to an end" suggests the U.S. is taking a much more aggressive approach about the Syrian leader....
CHICAGO (AP) -- The man dragged from a full United Express flight by airport police in Chicago is a Kentucky physician who was convicted more than a decade ago of felony charges involving his prescribing of drugs....
United is getting pummeled on late-night TV. Online, jokers are proposing new corporate slogans such as "We'll drag you all over the world" and "We have red eye and black eye flights available." On Wall Street, the airline briefly lost nearly $1 billion in market value before its stock regained much of the loss....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on U.S. response to recent chemical weapons attack in Syria (all times local):...
Pakistan’s teenage Nobel Prize winner and children and girl’s rights activist, Malala Yousafzai on Monday was named the youngest ever United Nations Messenger of Peace, with a special focus on girls' education. “[You are a] symbol of perhaps the most important thing in the world, education for all,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on April 10 at a ceremony at the UN Headquarters in New York. "It is an enormous pleasure to have you as our Messenger of Peace," he said, praising her "courageous defense of the rights of all people, including women and girls, to education and equality" and her "unwavering commitment to peace."Yousafzai, who was shot in 2012 by the Taliban for attending classes, is the youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace and the first one to be designated by Secretary-General Guterres since he assumed office in January this year. Accepting the accolade, the 19-year old un...
The United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) has sought the release of Rohingya children detained in a Myanmar army crackdown last year on the Muslim minority. Children as young as 10 were among hundreds of Rohingya detained on charges of their association with insurgents, Reuters revealed last month, citing a previously unreleased police document.Thirteen juveniles were among more than 400 arrested since Oct. 9, when insurgents attacked three police border posts in northern Rakhine State near the frontier with Bangladesh, according to the March 7 document. The attacks by a previously unknown insurgent group ignited the biggest crisis of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's government, prompting more than 75,000 Rohingya to flee the ensuing army crackdown to Bangladesh.Bertrand Bainvel, the UNICEF representative to Myanmar said on April 10, “The issue was discussed in high-level meetings and UNICEF felt encouraged that the issue was known to auth...
