NEW YORK (AP): Journalists at a news site that covers the Haitian community in the United States say they’ve been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering a fake story about immigrants eating the pets of people in an Ohio town....
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): The rebranded regional carrier, LIAT 2020 (Leeward Islands Air Transport) will be launching flights to 11 new destinations very shortly. According to the carrier’s CEO Hafsaf Abdulsalam, the expansion aims to provide...
BEIRUT (AP): The leader of Hezbollah vowed Thursday to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week’s deadly sabotage of its members’ communication devices, and said Israelis displaced from homes near the Lebanon border because of the fighting...
KARACHI (AP): Police in southern Pakistan shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men, officials said Thursday, the second such apparent extrajudicial killing in a week, drawing condemnation from human rights groups....
SAN JUAN (AP): Haiti’s government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council long sought by the international community to prepare the troubled Caribbean country for its first general elections since 2016. Smith Augustin, a member of the...
LONDON (AP) — Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source....
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — More than 100 wildfires stretched thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal on Wednesday, with seven deaths since the worst spate of fires in recent years spread out of control...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 12:08 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): The FBI has disrupted a group of Chinese hackers who were working at the direction of the Chinese government to infiltrate critical infrastructure in the US and other countries, and to spy on and steal data from universities,...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 12:07 AM
CARACAS (AP): Venezuela’s government Tuesday announced the arrest of a fourth US citizen in connection with an alleged plot to kill President Nicolás Maduro in which authorities claim the CIA, Spain’s intelligence agency, organised crime groups,...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 12:07 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP): At least 30 people have been killed in the past two weeks in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the powerful Sinaloa cartel continue to clash, authorities said Tuesday. Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 12:07 AM
HARARE (AP): Zimbabwe and Namibia have announced plans to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries. Zimbabwe said on Monday it would...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 9:27 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs is staying locked up after a judge Wednesday rejected the hip-hop mogul's proposal that he await his sex trafficking trial in the luxury of his Florida mansion instead of a...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 2:24 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a dramatic shift after more than two years of high rates that helped tame inflation but also made borrowing painfully...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 9:54 AM
BALTIMORE (AP) — The US Justice Department on Wednesday sued the owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the Baltimore bridge collapse, seeking to recover more than $100 million that the government spent to clear the underwater debris...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 9:17 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans can now renew their passports online, bypassing a cumbersome mail-in paper application process that often caused delays. The State Department announced Wednesday that its online passport renewal system is now fully...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP): Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats – the vast majority that officials said came from overseas – after former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Senator...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM
AVIGNON (AP): A 71-year-old French man admitted in court Tuesday that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious in their bed. His wife of 50 years, who has divorced...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe and Namibia have announced plans to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries. Zimbabwe said...
LONDON (AP) — A 12-year-old boy who threw stones at police during rioting outside a mosque has become the youngest person to be sentenced so far over far-right riots that erupted in England this summer. The boy, who can't be...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs presided over a sordid empire of sexual crimes, coercing and abusing women for years while using blackmail and shocking acts of violence to keep his victims in line, according to an indictment...
AVIGNON, France (AP) — A 71-year-old French man admitted in court Tuesday that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious in their bed. His wife of 50 years,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. Combs had been arrested late Monday in Manhattan, roughly six months after federal...
Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people's lives. Beginning Tuesday in the US, UK, Canada and Australia,...
DAKAR (AP): The withdrawal of US troops from Niger is complete, an American official said Monday. A small number of military personnel assigned to guard the US Embassy remain, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters. Earlier this year,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): The number of people killed after a tanker truck carrying gasolene exploded in southern Haiti over the weekend has risen to 26, officials said. At least 40 others were injured, and six of them have been transferred to the...
