Paris (AP) The swimming portion of a practice run for the Olympic triathlon was cancelled Sunday because of concerns about water quality in the Seine River, but Paris officials said they’re confident that triathletes will be able to swim in the...
Tokyo (AP) Japanese and US defence chiefs and top diplomats agreed to further bolster their military cooperation by upgrading the command and control of US forces in the East Asian country and strengthening American-licensed missile production...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP): The two-year-old toddler lay on a foil blanket, her face covered with salve for her burns and her little body riddled with scars from shrapnel. She squirmed, her breath heaving, as doctors examined her and the tube...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Maria Corina Machado has hiked overpasses, walked highways, ridden motorcycles, sought shelter in supporters’ homes and seen her closest collaborators detained and persecuted. She has held the calloused hands of crying men...
WASHINGTON (AP): A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who eluded authorities for decades was duped into flying into the US, where he was arrested alongside a son of Joaquín “El Chapo’ Guzmán, according to a US law enforcement official familiar...
PARIS (AP): Arsonists attacked France’s high-speed rail network early Friday, setting fires that paralysed train travel to Paris for some 800,000 people across Europe, including athletes heading to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games....
LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said Friday that the UK will not intervene in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) request for an arrest warrant against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement is a...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): South African police arrested 95 Libyan nationals in a raid on a suspected secret military training camp on Friday and authorities said they were investigating whether there were more illegal bases in other parts of the country....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): The future of Venezuela is on the line. Voters will decide Sunday whether to re-elect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been beset by crisis, or allow the Opposition a chance to deliver on a promise to...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers declared three days of mourning Friday as diggers continued their search for bodies of mudslide victims in a remote part of the East African country. Heavy rain triggered deadly slides...
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation's two most popular...
PARIS (AP) — France's high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and "criminal" acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralysing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the...
AP: Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat...
AP: After three of Earth’s hottest days ever measured, the United Nations called for a flurry of efforts to try to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures, calling it “an extreme heat epidemic.” “If there is one thing that...
TORTOLA (CMC): The Department of Immigration says 20 Haitians were picked up in North Sound area of Virgin Gorda earlier this week, intensifying concerns over human smuggling in this British overseas territory. The group of 12 males and seven...
SAN JUAN (CMC): The governor of Puerto Rico, Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, on Wednesday signed a law that prohibits discrimination against people wearing Afros, curls, locs, twists, braids and other hairstyles across the US territory. The move...
TOKYO (AP): Japan’s total population declined for the 15th straight year in 2023, dropping by more than a half-million people as the population ages and births remain low. Births in Japan hit a record low of 730,000 last year. The 1.58 million...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood's video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial...
AP: Meta says it has taken down about 63,000 Facebook accounts in Nigeria that were engaging in financial sextortion scams — along with groups and pages that were trying to organise, recruit and train new scammers. Sexual extortion, or sextortion,...
AP: Monday was the hottest day ever globally, beating a record set the day before, as countries around the world from Japan to Bolivia to the United States continue to feel the heat, according to the European climate change service. Provisional...
WASHINGTON (AP): Hundreds of protesters rallied on Wednesday within sight of the Capitol building, denouncing Israel’s war in Gaza and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hours before he was set to address members of Congress. Protesters...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday. There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered a solemn call to voters to defend the country's democracy as he laid out in an Oval Office address his decision to drop his bid for reelection and throw his...
PARIS (AP) — French authorities have foiled several plots to disrupt the 2024 Olympics, including arresting a Russian man in one of them, officials said Wednesday, just days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Games in Paris. France has...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Ten migrants drowned trying to cross a rushing river in Panama's Darien Gap that borders Colombia, Panamanian authorities said Wednesday. The National Border Service said in a statement that the victims were swept away...
