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Published:Saturday | August 10, 2024 | 12:06 AM

NEW JERSEY, (CMC): Three nationals from the Dominican Republic have been extradited to the United States and have appeared in court on charges relating to their participation in a sprawling “grandparent scam” that defrauded elderly Americans out...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2024 | 10:05 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolás Maduro said he has ordered a 10-day block on access to X in Venezuela, accusing the owner Elon Musk of using the social network to promote hatred after the country's disputed presidential...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2024 | 12:10 AM

AP: With both major party tickets now decided, the campaign is set to play out as a 90-day sprint, and the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt are prime fronts. Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are showing their support for...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2024 | 12:10 AM

AP: The Israeli military has ordered another mass evacuation in large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza, saying its forces will soon operate there in response to Palestinian rocket fire. Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis suffered...

Published:Friday | August 9, 2024 | 12:10 AM

LONDON (AP): British authorities said Thursday they were preparing for the possibility of further unrest, even as they applauded the efforts of anti-racism campaigners and police who largely stifled a threatened wave of far-right demonstrations...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2024 | 9:53 AM

LUCAMA, NC (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby spawned damaging tornadoes that killed one person, flooded a town and temporarily shut down part of Interstate 95 early Thursday as it blew into North Carolina after making a second landfall...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2024 | 12:10 AM

PANAMA CITY (AP): Border police in Panama said Wednesday that they have arrested 15 people who allegedly ran a smuggling ring to move Chinese migrants through the Darien Gap. The dangerous, jungle-clad gap connects Colombia and Panama and...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2024 | 12:10 AM

LANSING, Michigan (AP): Vice-President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov Tim Walz are spending their first full day as running mates on Wednesday rallying Democrats across the Midwest, a politically divided region that is crucial to their effort to...

Published:Thursday | August 8, 2024 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (AP): Just a month into the job, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer sounds more like the prosecutor he used to be than the leader of a powerful nation, as he tries to quell riots that have swept the country in the past week. The unfolding...

Published:Wednesday | August 7, 2024 | 12:39 PM

Microsoft is joining cybersecurity software firm CrowdStrike in fighting back against Delta Air Lines, which blames the companies for causing several thousand cancelled flights following a technology outage last month. A lawyer for...

Published:Wednesday | August 7, 2024 | 9:49 AM

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese woman has been detained for allegedly slandering others on social media in a crackdown on what Chinese authorities see as harmful negativity during the Olympics from super-zealous fans and online fan clubs. Beijing...

Published:Tuesday | August 6, 2024 | 8:42 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with her decision, after a breakneck selection process that began barely two weeks ago...

Published:Tuesday | August 6, 2024 | 12:11 AM

CARACAS (AP): Venezuela’s opposition leaders are calling on the country’s armed forces to abandon their support of President Nicolás Maduro and stop repressing demonstrators who have come out in force to dispute the leader’s claim he prevailed in...

Published:Tuesday | August 6, 2024 | 12:11 AM

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that a “standing army” of specialist police would be set up to deal with rioting, and that the justice system would be ramped up to handle hundreds of arrests after violent disorder...

Published:Tuesday | August 6, 2024 | 12:10 AM

DHAKA (AP): Sheikh Hasina, the longest-serving prime minister in Bangladesh’s history, resigned and fled the country on Monday, bringing a tumultuous end to her 15-year rule as an extraordinary wave of protest succeeded in toppling her government....

Published:Monday | August 5, 2024 | 12:31 PM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Souvenirs depicting the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar could be banned in Colombia if legislators approve a bill introduced this week in the nation's congress. The proposal is criticised by vendors who sell...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2024 | 9:00 AM

TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Hurricane Debby reached the Big Bend coast of Florida early Monday, bringing with it the potential for catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surge as it slowly passes over the northern part of the state....

Published:Monday | August 5, 2024 | 12:08 AM

BEIRUT (AP): Four years ago, Helen Ata got a call from someone she didn’t know, telling her that a massive explosion at the Beirut port had caused her building to collapse. Her brothers were trapped under the rubble. One of them, Issam, survived,...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2024 | 12:08 AM

PARIS (AP): Faith leaders gathered with Olympic officials on Sunday morning in front of Notre Dame Cathedral to celebrate how “faith and sport can complement each other”, in the words of International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach. The...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2024 | 12:08 AM

DHAKA (AP): Dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured on Sunday as renewed anti-government protests swept across Bangladesh, with protesters calling for the prime minister to resign and the prime minister accusing them of “sabotage” and...

Published:Monday | August 5, 2024 | 12:08 AM

LAHAINA (AP): They have combed the ashes for mementos, worried about where they would sleep, questioned their faith, and tried to find a way to grieve amid the great, unsettling devastation. Residents have faced a year of challenges, practical and...

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2024 | 6:51 PM

BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the shooting deaths of his three young sons at their Ohio home last year. A Clermont County judge sentenced Chad Doerman, 33, on Friday...

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2024 | 11:06 AM

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby strengthened rapidly Sunday and was expected to become a hurricane as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida, bringing with it the threat of devastating floods to the southeast Atlantic...

Published:Friday | August 2, 2024 | 9:33 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty...

Published:Friday | August 2, 2024 | 8:20 PM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis man has been ordered to spend 145 years in prison in the fatal shootings of three adults and a 7-year-old girl following an argument with his former girlfriend over her federal COVID-19 relief money. Malik...

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