New US restrictions may harm bilateral ties

HAVANA - US President Donald Trump's decision to roll back parts of former president Barack Obama's historic opening of Cuba could push the countries back to hostility, an expert in international affairs said.

Poachers causing songbird 'disaster'

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Volunteers and police in Cyprus are struggling to tackle illegal songbird trapping operations that kill millions of birds a year and net huge profits for poaching gangs.

Shots fired in Australia's war on waste

SYDNEY - Australia's first recycled supermarket is giving food destined for landfills a second chance, as the government embarks on a major push to cut down on waste costing the economy A$20 billion ($15 billion) a year.

Canoe returns after traditional trip round world

HONOLULU, Hawaii - No modern navigation instrumentation guided a Polynesian voyaging canoe as it followed the horizon during a three-year journey around the globe.

Why women top the catwalk cash charts

MILAN - It is a rare exception to the rule: the gender salary gap in the fashion industry means female models are paid more than their male counterparts for the same job.

Bombing at Colombia mall kills 3

BOGOTA - Three young women were killed and nine others injured after a strong explosion rocked a shopping mall in Colombia's capital on Saturday, local media reported. Among the dead was a 23-year-old Frenchwoman who was working in Bogota.

ROK gets 1st female foreign minister

SEOUL - A United Nations veteran was appointed on Sunday as the Republic of Korea's first female foreign minister, tasked with easing tensions over the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear ambitions.

58 confirmed or presumed dead from London tower block fire

LONDON - London police on Saturday raised to 58 the number of deaths either confirmed or presumed following the horrific inferno that turned the city's Grenfell Tower public housing block into a charred hulk.

62 die in Portugal forest inferno

AVELAR, Portugal - Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 62 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what Prime Minister Antonio Costa called "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years".

PM Abe's support slumps amid school scandal

TOKYO - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slumped more than 10 points to 44.9 percent in a public opinion poll published on Sunday, amid opposition party suspicions he used his influence unfairly to help a friend set up a business.

Bodies found in search for sailors

YOKOSUKA, Japan - The search for seven United States Navy sailors missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan was called off on Sunday after several bodies were found in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters.

IN BRIEF (Page 12)