WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether to block a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against leading United States gun manufacturers over allegations their commercial practises have helped caused much...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexican army troops opened fire on a truck carrying migrants from a half dozen countries, and six migrants from Egypt, Peru and El Salvador died in an event that President Claudia Sheinbaum described Thursday as “deplorable”. Ten...
TAIPEI (AP): A fire at a hospital in southern Taiwan killed at least eight people on Thursday morning as the island was being battered by a typhoon. The fire occurred in Piingtung county, which has been hit hard by Typhoon Krathon, which made...
MOGADISHU (AP): Rescuers searched Thursday for dozens of migrants from Africa still missing after smugglers apparently forced them out of two boats in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti earlier this week, the Djiboutian coast guard said. At...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,(CMC): Grenada’s fourth governor general, Sir Daniel Williams, died Wednesday following a period of illness. He was 88 years old. A lawyer by profession, Sir Daniel entered politics following the collapse of the left-wing...
BLACK MOUNTAIN, North Carolina (AP): Hurricane Helene’s death toll reached 200 on Thursday and could rise higher still, as searchers made their way towards the hardest to reach places in the mountains of western North Carolina where the storm...
TOKYO (AP) — An unexploded United States bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights, Japanese officials said. No one...
MIAMI (AP) — Waves from Hurricane Kirk could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions this weekend along the United States East Coast as well as in Bermuda, the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, forecasters said. Kirk...
ABUJA (AP): More than 100 people, mostly women and children, were missing after an overloaded boat bringing them back from an Islamic festival at night capsized in northwestern Nigeria, the authorities said on Wednesday. The locally made boat,...
BRUSSELS (AP): The United Kingdom and the European Union agreed on Wednesday to strengthen their relationship after the damage caused by Brexit and to hold a series of meetings, including at the highest level, on issues like economic growth, energy...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A San Diego doctor became the third person to plead guilty in the case of Matthew Perry 's fatal drug overdose, as prosecutors collect cooperators in an attempt to convict two bigger targets they say...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some manufacturers and retailers are urging President Joe Biden to invoke a 1947 law as a way to suspend a strike by 45,000 dockworkers that has shut down 36 US ports from Maine to Texas. At issue is Section 206 of the...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police on Wednesday said they were investigating whether the school bus fire that killed 23 young students and teachers in suburban Bangkok was caused by negligence after filing initial charges against the driver. The...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president, riding the enthusiasm over her predecessor’s social programmes but also facing challenges that include stubbornly high levels of violence. After a smiling...
NEW DELHI, India (CMC): Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the opening of Jamaica’s High Commission in New Delhi, symbolises his country’s commitment to strengthening its presence in India. “Today is a proud moment for Jamaica as we officially...
New Delhi [India] (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that the road in front of the Jamaica High Commission in New Delhi has been named ‘Jamaica Marg’, highlighting strong India-Jamaica ties. Addressing a joint press...
NEW YORK (CMC): Caribbean immigrant advocates on Tuesday denounced United States President Joe Biden’s update of his executive action limiting access to asylum for Caribbean and other migrants at the US southern border. Many of the migrants and...
NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday went after each other's running mates in a vice presidential debate that opened with a discussion of burgeoning domestic and international troubles, a hurricane that ravaged much of the...
HOUSTON (AP) — An attorney said Tuesday he is representing 120 accusers who have come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Sean 'Diddy' Combs, the hip-hop mogul who is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges....
A network of illegal drug sellers based in the United States, the Dominican Republic and India packaged potentially deadly synthetic opioids into pills disguised as common prescription drugs and sold millions of them through fake online...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran said it fired dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday, a sharp escalation of the monthslong conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas. There were no immediate reports of casualties as...
BANGKOK (AP) — A bus carrying young students and their teachers on a school trip caught fire in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, leaving more than 20 feared dead, officials and rescuers said. The bus with 45 passengers — six teachers and 39...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A strike by dockworkers at 36 ports from Maine to Texas, the first in decades, could snarl supply chains and lead to shortages and higher prices if it stretches on for more than a few weeks. Workers began walking...
AP: Hurricane Helene is shifting the presidential candidates’ plans this week. Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is cutting short a campaign visit to Las Vegas to return to Washington for briefings. Republican candidate Donald Trump is heading to...
BEIRUT (AP): Hezbollah’s acting leader vowed Monday to keep battling Israel and said the Lebanese militant group was prepared for a long fight even after much of its top command was wiped out, including its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Israeli strikes...
