LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian government officials said Friday they arrested four more people in connection with Wednesday's failed coup attempt against President Luis Arce, bringing the total detained to 21. Government Minister Eduardo...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): The government of Antigua and Barbuda has decided to introduce legislation to expunge criminal records for individuals convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana. This move will effectively erase these convictions, allowing...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The government of Grenada has implemented changes to the Firearm Act that will now see firearm-related offences being placed on par with murder and treason. According to Attorney General and Minister for Legal Affairs Claudette...
CAIRO (AP): International experts portrayed a grim picture for war-torn Sudan in a report Thursday warning that 755,000 people are facing famine in the coming months, amid relentless clashes between rival generals. The fighting has created a...
LONDON (AP): Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout on Thursday in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions, disrupting hospital services just days before the UK general election. The five-...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 200 people have been charged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care fraud schemes with false claims topping $2.7 billion, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Attorney General Merrick Garland...
CINCINNATI (AP) — A teenager accused of making a hit list and planning a mass killing at a high school near Cincinnati pleaded guilty Thursday to reduced charges of inducing panic. Prosecutors dropped a charge against the 14-year-old,...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's government on Thursday announced the arrest of 17 more people over their alleged involvement in the attempted coup that shook the economically troubled country the day before. The South American nation of...
McALESTER, Oklahoma (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a seven-year-old girl in 1984. Richard Rojem, 66, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary...
PORT-AU-PRINC (AP): Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence choking the Caribbean country. A couple hundred police officers from Kenya met...
COPENHAGEN, (AP): Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, one of the most potent gases contributing...
NAIROB (AP): Kenyan President William Ruto said Wednesday he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes, a day after protesters stormed parliament and several people were shot dead. It was the biggest assault on Kenya’s government in...
A couple arrested after some of their adopted children were found locked in a shed at their West Virginia home are set for trial later this year on charges that a judge said involved their use as “slaves.” Donald Ray Lantz and Jeanne...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Armoured vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday in what appeared to be a failed coup attempt, as President Luis Arce said the country stood firm against attacks on democracy and...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Armoured vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup, insisted he stands firm and urged people to mobilise. In a video of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by Dr....
NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in New York Wednesday to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of...
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — At least one person died and 12 others were injured Wednesday when a cable car collapsed in Medellín, Colombia's second-largest city, officials said. The manager of the cable car system, Tomás...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Police say that “no foul play is suspected” in the deaths of three people, whose bodies were found inside a locked minibus on Sunday in a section of the trail that passes through Mabura, an area of approximately 2000...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (AP): The first UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. A couple hundred police officers...
BANGKOK (AP): A plane with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange departed Bangkok after refuelling Tuesday and he is on the way to Saipan to enter a plea deal with the US government that will free him and resolve the legal case over the publication of a...
NAIROBI (AP): Part of Kenya’s parliament building was burnt on Tuesday as thousands of protesters against a new finance bill entered and legislators fled, in the most direct assault on the government in decades. Journalists saw at least three...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) says Joly Germine, described as the “king” of a violent Haitian gang, has been sentenced to 420 months in prison for his role in a gunrunning conspiracy that smuggled firearms to...
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing US military secrets in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who fatally shot five people and critically injured a 13-year-old girl at apartments near Las Vegas has killed himself, authorities said Tuesday. The North Las Vegas Police Department said the suspected shooter, 47-...
