WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough votes from delegates to become her party's nominee for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said Friday. The announcement was made before...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least nine people were killed by Nigerian security forces as protesters clashed with police during mass demonstrations over the country's economic crisis, a rights group said Friday, while authorities said a...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A half dozen masked assailants ransacked the headquarters of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in the latest escalation of violence against opponents of Nicolás Maduro following the country...
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The man accused of beheading his father in their suburban Philadelphia home early this year and posting a video of the severed head online is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Stephen...
NEW YORK (AP) — The former chief of the Honduran National Police was sentenced Thursday to 19 years in prison after he pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to protect shipments of cocaine destined for the United States. Juan Carlos Bonilla...
The United States Department of Transportation is proposing a new rule that would ban airlines from charging parents more to sit with their young children. Under the proposal, released Thursday, US and foreign carriers would be required...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders ended their summit here on Tuesday night, unable to sign off on the arrangements to facilitate the free and full movement of CARICOM nationals. The leaders had originally hoped to have put...
NEW DELHI (AP): Hundreds of rescue workers searched through mud and debris Wednesday from multiple landslides that have killed at least 151 people in southern India, police said. The multiple landslides occurred after torrential rains triggered...
CIUDAD VICTORIA (AP): Even Mexico’s largest corporations are now being hit by demands from drug cartels, and gangs are increasingly trying to control the sale, distribution and pricing of certain goods. Well-known, high-ranking business leaders...
BEIRUT (AP): Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital on Wednesday, Iran and the militant group said, blaming Israel for a shock assassination that risks escalating the conflict even as the US and other...
CARACAS (AP): Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday called on his close ally, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, to release detailed vote counts of the weekend election in which electoral authorities declared him the winner. Petro’s...
LONDON (AP) — British police said Thursday they have charged a 17-year-old with murder over a stabbing attack that left three little girls dead and several more in critical condition. The charges came as the traumatised town of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the mastermind of al-Qaida's September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The development points to a...
PARIS (AP) — Covered with pins and adornments, Vivianne Robinson is hard to miss in the streets of Paris. The Olympics superfan has attended seven Summer Games over the span of 40 years. But this trip to Paris came at a hefty price — $...
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of marijuana shops boldly opened without a licence in New York City after the state legalised recreational use of the drug, but after more than a year of lax enforcement, new state rules are finally allowing...
PARIS (AP) — The 2024 Olympics famously launched with a rain-soaked opening ceremony that drenched athletes and spectators alike, now, they're enduring the opposite experience Tuesday: a heat wave. Most of France is under a heat wave...
MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed heavy retaliation against Hezbollah amid furious diplomatic efforts to prevent a spiral into regional war, following a weekend rocket strike that killed 12...
WASHINGTON (AP): Former President Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent said on Monday in disclosing how the gunman,...
PARIS (AP): The French government was investigating after multiple telecommunications lines were hit by acts of vandalism Monday, affecting fibre lines and fixed and mobile phone lines as cities around France host events for the 2024 Paris...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was formally declared the winner of his country’s disputed presidential election on Monday, a day after the political opposition and the entrenched incumbent both claimed victory in the...
LONDON (AP): A teenage boy with a knife attacked a children’s dance and yoga class in northwest England on Monday, killing two children and wounding 11 other people in a “ferocious” rampage that sent bloodied children running into a street to...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president took the unusual step Monday of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other following last week's detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent said on Monday in disclosing...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition and President Nicolas Maduro's government were locked in a high-stakes standoff after each side claimed victory in a presidential vote that millions in the long-suffering nation saw as...
Beijing (AP) Fifteen people were killed after a mudslide hit a homestay house in a tourist area in southeastern China on Sunday as heavy rains from what remained of a tropical storm drenched the region, state media said. Elsewhere in China, a...
