GOMA (AP): Sarah Bagheni had a headache, fever, and itchy and unusual skin lesions for days, but she had no inkling that her symptoms might have been caused by mpox and that she might be another case in a growing global health emergency. She also...
CALI (AP): Prince Harry and his wife Meghan wrapped up their visit to Colombia on Sunday by participating in a forum on the challenges facing women of African descent as they participate in politics. The couple also met with young people as part...
NEW DELHI (AP): Hundreds of doctors protested near India’s health ministry on Monday to demand stringent laws to protect healthcare workers from violence and to seek justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital. The...
TEL AVIV (AP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza, and he called on Hamas to do the same, without saying whether concerns...
An investigation has been launched into the fatal shooting of one of two men who allegedly attacked an off-duty policeman at home in Manchester on Sunday. It is reported that about 12:20 a.m., the policeman was at home in...
Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died. He was 88. NBC's 'Today' show, citing family...
Ernesto picked up strength as a hurricane early Monday as it headed farther out in the Atlantic toward easternmost Canada, but the storm is expected to stay offshore, causing powerful swells, dangerous surf and rip currents along the US East Coast...
CARICOM member states have made considerable strides towards achieving their renewable energy (RE) targets, reaching a commendable 12 per cent RE electricity penetration by 2022, nearly halfway to their ambitious goal. This milestone was...
CARACAS (AP) : Venezuelans across the world — some with flags and other patriotic paraphernalia — responded to a call from their country’s political opposition on Saturday and took to the streets to defend the faction’s claim to victory over...
BAMAKO (AP): When handling the garbage of a city of over three million people and equipped with little more than a face mask and gloves, it helps to have a sense of humour. Yacouba Diallo decided to name the two donkeys that pull his cart after...
BANGKOK (AP): Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of the divisive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, became Thailand’s prime minister after receiving a royal letter of endorsement on Sunday, two days after she was chosen by Parliament following a...
BERLIN (AP) — At least 23 people were injured when two gondolas of a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival near Leipzig in eastern Germany, news agency dpa reported Sunday. The fire started in one gondola and then spread to a second...
Former US Congressman George Santos is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case, according to a person familiar with the matter. Santos, a Republican from New York, is expected to enter the plea at a court hearing...
NABATIEH, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon early Saturday killed at least 10 Syrian nationals, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. The strike on Wadi al-Kfour in Nabatieh province is among the deadliest in Lebanon...
NEW DELHI (AP): Thousands of people marched through various Indian cities Friday to protest the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a government hospital, demanding justice and better security at medical campuses and hospitals. Demonstrators...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Inmates broke out of a prison in the coastal town of Saint-Marc in central Haiti on Friday, police said, as authorities in the country struggle to quell ongoing gang violence. Le Nouvelliste newspaper said officials at the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors recently issued subpoenas to Mayor Eric Adams, his campaign arm and City Hall in a probe into the Democrat's 2021 run, a new escalation in the ongoing investigation. City Hall confirmed Thursday night...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's health ministry said Friday it has identified a case of mpox, but sequencing is being done to determine whether it is a new variant, days after the World Health Organization declared the spread of mpox...
NEW YORK (AP): Donald Trump is asking the judge in his New York hush money criminal case to delay his sentencing until after the November presidential election. In a letter made public Thursday, lawyers for the former president and current...
SAO PAULO (AP): Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday rejected a proposal from Brazil’s president that Venezuela hold a new presidential election following the contested results of last month’s vote. Her comments came...
KYIV (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country’s troops had taken full control of Sudzha, which would be the largest Russian town to fall under Ukraine’s purview since the start of its cross-border incursion more...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The government is improving surveillance in the interior locations of the country in a bid to tighten the slack ends related to gold smuggling. Mines officers now use body cameras and drones to help spot illegal...
BOSTON (CMC): United States law enforcement officials say they have detained a 26-year-old Haitian national accused of aggravated rape of a child in a Rockland, Massachusetts migrant shelter. They said that the Haitian had been arrested on Tuesday...
SAO PAULO (AP): A Brazilian air force plane on Tuesday carried the remains of three of the 62 people killed in last week’s plane crash to a small, distraught city in the country’s south where they were to be handed over to their families for...
LONDON (AP): The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus might ultimately spill across international borders. The announcement by WHO...
