International

(BBC)--The UN's human rights chief has said an inquiry has produced evidence that war crimes were authorised in Syria at the "highest level", including by President Bashar al-Assad. It is the first time the UN's human rights office has so…

(BBC)--A US winter storm blamed for up to a dozen deaths is threatening to bring travel misery to the East Coast on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday. The system, which dumped heavy rain and snow over the region on Tuesday, has already…

(BBC)--David Cameron has defended plans to toughen welfare rules for EU migrants, saying he was sending a "clear message" to people that the UK was not a "soft touch" for claiming benefits. He said he shared public concerns about the end…

(BBC)--Latvia's PM Valdis Dombrovskis has announced his resignation, and thereby the fall of his government, over the deadly collapse of a Riga supermarket. He made the announcement at a meeting with President Andris Berzins. "Considering…

(BBC)--The gunman who killed 26 people at a Connecticut school last year had "an obsession" with the 1999 Columbine massacre, an official report has found. Police said there was evidence Adam Lanza, 20, had planned the shooting, which took…

(BBC)--Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has launched his government's independence blueprint, calling it a "mission statement" for the future. The 649-page White Paper promised a "revolution" in social policy, with childcare at its…

(BBC)--Pope Francis has called for power in the Catholic Church to be devolved away from the Vatican, in the first major work he has written in the role. In the document, he says he is open to suggestions to changes in the power of the…

St John’s, Antigua -- Ambassador Colin Murdoch, who led a delegation representing Antigua and Barbuda to meet with US representatives in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2013, in another effort to resolve the longstanding dispute between…

(BBC)--A Boeing 747 Dreamlifter cargo plane will attempt to take off from a minor airport in Kansas after it landed there by mistake. The giant cargo jet was heading for McConnell air force base in Wichita but instead touched down at…

(BBC)--Three women have been "rescued" from a house in south London as police investigate claims they were held as slaves for about 30 years. Police arrested two suspects, a 67-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman. Last month officers…

(BBC)--US President Barack Obama has sent a letter to Afghanistan's leader Hamid Karzai vowing to respect his nation's sovereignty, as Afghan elders debate a crucial post-2014 security pact. Mr Obama vows US forces will not enter Afghan…

Port Of Spain, Trinidad (WINN) -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has again been harshly criticized by Port of Spain-based academic Professor Norman Girvan, over the Dominican Republic citizenship matter. Girvan expressed disappointment…

(BBC)--Eleven Egyptian military personnel have been killed and dozens more wounded in a car bomb attack near the North Sinai city of el-Arish. Al-Masri al-Youm newspaper said a convoy of buses carrying infantry soldiers was hit by a…

(BBC)--A US white supremacist who targeted black and Jewish people in a nationwide killing spree has been put to death in the US state of Missouri. Joseph Franklin was executed for shooting dead a man and wounding two others outside a…

(BBC)--Iran's Supreme Leader has warned his country will not step back "one iota" from its nuclear rights, as it resumes talks with world powers in Geneva. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he would not intervene directly in the negotiations,…