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Cholera spreading as fighting between generals shows no sign of abating

Published:Tuesday | September 24, 2024 | 12:08 AM

CAIRO (AP): Cholera is spreading in war-torn Sudan, killing at least 388 people and sickening about 13,000 others over the past two months, health authorities said, as more than 17 months of fighting between the military and a notorious...

Lebanon sees deadliest day of conflict since 2006 as Israeli strikes kill more than 350

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 3:32 PM

MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli strikes on Lebanon Monday killed more than 350 people, including more than 60 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military...

Diddy's music streams jump after arrest and indictment

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 2:24 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs' vast music catalogue has seen a jump in streams since his arrest last week and the unsealing of an indictment against him. Under his many musical monikers — including Diddy, Puff...

Southeast US under major storm warning as hurricane watch issued for parts of Cuba and Mexico

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 11:09 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane watches were issued for parts of Cuba and Mexico on Monday as a cluster of storms located south of the Cayman Islands is expected to strengthen into a major hurricane in upcoming days with it moving...

Man accused in apparent assassination attempt allegedly wrote note indicating he intended to kill Trump

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 8:28 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left behind a note saying that he intended to kill the former president and maintained in his car a handwritten list of dates...

Antidepressants have potential for treating brain tumours

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 12:08 AM

ZURICH (ANI): Glioblastoma is an extremely aggressive brain tumour that is currently incurable. Cancer doctors can increase their patients’ life expectancy with surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, or surgical procedures. Nonetheless, half of...

Anura Dissanayake wins presidential election

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 12:07 AM

COLOMBO (AP) Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that has been widely accused of pushing the South Asian nation...

Are Trump and Harris particularly Christian?

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 12:07 AM

Vice President Kamala Harris is a Baptist who was influenced by religious traditions in her mother’s home country of India. Former President Donald Trump grew up a mainline Presbyterian but began identifying as a nondenominational Christian near...

Rock in Rio’s sign language pumps up deaf audience

Published:Monday | September 23, 2024 | 12:07 AM

Tens of thousands of Brazilians gathered at Rio de Janeiro’s mega-festival Rock in Rio on Friday, with many staking out spots of artificial grass all day to hear the headliner, Katy Perry. As her music keyed up, the enormous screens around the...

Building collapse in Italy kills two young siblings and their mother

Published:Sunday | September 22, 2024 | 4:14 PM

ROME (AP) — A two-storey building collapsed in the southern Italian province of Naples early Sunday, killing two young siblings and their mother while burying the children's grandmother under the rubble, firefighters and local authorities...

Four killed and 17 wounded in mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama

Published:Sunday | September 22, 2024 | 1:01 PM

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A mass shooting killed four people and wounded 17 others in a popular nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama, with many of the victims caught in the crossfire, police said Sunday. Police Chief Scott Thurmond said at a...

Congo frees 600 inmates at main prison in a bid to ease overcrowding

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 5:42 PM

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo said they released 600 prisoners in the country's main prison on Saturday as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons. Justice Minister Constant Mutamba announced the move...

California governor signs law to protect children from social media addiction

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 12:25 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will make it illegal for social media platforms to knowingly provide addictive feeds to children without parental consent beginning in 2027 under a new law Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed Friday....

Israel says its strike on Beirut killed top Hezbollah military official

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 12:07 AM

BEIRUT (AP): Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighbourhood on Friday, the Israeli army said. It was the deadliest such attack on Lebanon’s capital in years,...

Authorities warn against layoffs ahead of the implementation of new minimum wage

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 12:07 AM

CASTRIES (CMC): The Department of Labour has embarked upon a sensitisation campaign amid reports that some employers were moving to dismiss workers ahead of the planned October 1 implementation of the National Minimum Livable Wage. “There are...

Ban on face masks, tinted car windows among new anti crime measures

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 12:07 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Mia Mottley has announced the establishment of a National Advisory Council on Citizen Security as her administration moves towards dealing with an upsurge in gun and gun-related violence. “The government of Barbados...

‘Water is flooding everywhere’

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 12:07 AM

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP): Houses swept away to the very last brick. Inmates frantically fleeing the city’s main prison as its walls got washed away by water rising from an overflowing dam. Corpses of crocodiles and snakes floating among human bodies on...

Foreigners to get easier access to work in the country

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 12:06 AM

PARAMARIBO (CMC): The government of Suriname is going to make it easier for foreigners to work in the country with a work and residence permit. This new protocol introduces a faster processing procedure for foreign employees. The Ministry of...

Man charged with sending threats to kill Supreme Court justices

Published:Saturday | September 21, 2024 | 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): An Alaska man accused of sending graphic threats to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members has been indicted on federal charges, authorities said Thursday. Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of...

Mexican cartel leader’s son convicted of violent role in drug trafficking plot

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 9:12 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a Mexican drug cartel leader was convicted Friday of charges that he used violence, including the deadly downing of a military helicopter, to help his father operate one of the country's largest and most...

High insulin prices spur US federal lawsuit against three companies

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 8:28 PM

The United States federal government is suing some big pharmacy benefit managers over a system of drug rebates that regulators say has made the price of insulin soar for diabetic patients. Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in...

Jury awards $116M to family of passenger killed in New York helicopter crash

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 6:31 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has awarded $116 million to the family of one of five people killed in an open-door helicopter that crashed and sank in a New York City river, leaving passengers trapped in their safety harnesses. The verdict...

Congress scrambles to ensure safety of presidential candidates in final weeks of campaign

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 10:30 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are scrambling to ensure that the US Secret Service has enough money and resources to keep the nation's presidential candidates safe amid repeated threats of violence. It's unclear, though, how much they...

President blames the US for bloodshed in Sinaloa as cartel violence surges

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 12:12 AM

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP): Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the United States on Thursday for the surge in cartel violence terrorising the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week. Two...

Colombia suspends peace talks with rebel group after a deadly attack on military

Published:Friday | September 20, 2024 | 12:11 AM

BOGOTA (AP): Colombia on Wednesday suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group for an attack that killed two soldiers and injured more than 20. “Today, the dialogue process is suspended,” said the...

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