SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic said Tuesday it has deported or repatriated nearly 11,000 Haitians in the past week, fulfilling a pledge to do so weekly as neighbouring Haiti scrambles to handle the influx...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal Monday from the singer R. Kelly, who is now serving 20 years in prison after being convicted of child sex convictions in Chicago. The Grammy Award-winning R&B singer...
More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform to be addictive to kids. The lawsuits stem from...
LAN SAK, Thailand (AP) — Mourners wept and monks prayed at a cremation ceremony Tuesday in a small town in central Thailand for 23 young students and teachers who died in last week's bus fire on a school field trip. A large...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP): Commemorations and protests unfolded across the world on Monday to mark the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, an assault that sparked a war that has devastated the Hamas-ruled Gaza strip, fuelled...
BELLEAIR BEACH, Florida (AP): Milton strengthened rapidly on Monday into a Category 5 hurricane on a path towards Florida, threatening the densely populated Tampa area with a potential direct hit and menacing the same stretch of coastline that was...
PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti (AP): Under the cover of night, dozens of gang members crept towards the small town of Pont-Sondé in central Haiti armed with knives and assault rifles as families slept. The gang had travelled from nearby Savien in vehicles they...
LONDON (AP): A British doctor on Monday admitted trying to kill his mother’s long-term partner, who stood between him and an inheritance, by injecting the man with poison disguised as a COVID-19 vaccine. Prosecutors say Thomas Kwan pretended to be...
BELLEAIR BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane Monday in the Gulf of Mexico on a path toward Florida, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay, leading to evacuation orders and long gas lines, and...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Monday on a path toward Florida population centres including Tampa and Orlando, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for...
LOS ANGELES (AP): For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism. But that...
GORELOVKA (AP): A 10-year-old boy proudly stands beside his father and listens to the monotone chanting of elderly women clad in embroidered headscarves and long colourful skirts. It is Ilya’s first time attending a night prayer meeting in...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Rescue teams from Bosnia's neighbours and European Union countries on Sunday were joining efforts to clear the rubble and find people still missing from floods and landslides that devastated parts of...
MIAMI (AP) — People across Florida were given notice Sunday that Milton, for now just a tropical storm off the coast of Mexico, could intensify rapidly into a major hurricane before slamming midweek into the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast. Tropical...
PENSACOLA, North Carolina (AP): The search for victims of Hurricane Helene dragged into its second week on Friday, as exhausted rescue crews and volunteers continued to work long days – navigating past washed out roads, downed power lines and...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP): With his major opponents imprisoned or left off the ballot, Tunisian President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning reelection on Sunday, five years after riding anti-establishment backlash to a first term. The North...
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio court has referred to county prosecutors a criminal case brought by a citizens' group against the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates over their comments about Haitian immigrants but...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will not extend a two-year programme that allows migrants from certain nations into the United States if they came by plane with sponsorship. The program began in 2022 with Venezuelans and was an...
BEIRUT (AP): Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight, hitting suburbs of Beirut and cutting off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of people fleeing Israeli bombardment. The blasts in Beirut...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether to block a US$10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against leading US gun manufacturers over allegations their commercial practices have helped caused much bloodshed there. The gun...
NAIROBI (AP): Supporters and opponents of Kenya’s deputy president clashed Friday at public forums over an impeachment motion against him, which was introduced in parliament by the ruling alliance this week. Rigathi Gachagua is accused of...
KAMITUGA (AP): It’s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she’s still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma driving away clients who’ve heard she had the virus. “It’s risky work,”...
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday denied a request by a Black high school student in Texas for a court order that the student's lawyers say would have allowed him to return to his high school without fear of having his previous...
ASHEVILLE, NC (AP) — Nearly a week after Hurricane Helene brought devastation to western North Carolina, a shiny stainless steel tanker truck in downtown Asheville attracted residents carrying five-gallon containers, milk jugs and buckets to...
BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand on Friday said they have filed criminal charges against a bus operator in connection with a bus fire that killed 23 young students and teachers on a school trip earlier this week, as investigations...
