HAVANA (AP): A fleet of Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, left Havana’s port on Monday after a five-day visit to Cuba following planned military drills in the Atlantic Ocean. The exercise has been seen by some as a show of...
TEL AVIV (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet that has overseen the fighting in Gaza, a government spokesperson said Monday, a move that comes days after a key member of the body bolted from the...
SEOUL (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea for a two-day visit starting on Tuesday, both countries announced, amid international concerns about their military cooperation. Putin is expected to meet North Korean leader Kim...
BLANTYRE (AP): Malawi Vice-President Saulos Chilima was laid to rest in his village south of the capital on Monday following a funeral where President Lazarus Chakwera called for an independent probe into his death in a plane crash. Chilima and...
MEXICO CITY (AP): A recently elected mayor was shot and killed on Monday in southern Mexico, in the state of Guerrero, local authorities said. Salvador Villalva Flores was on a bus when was he was fatally shot in the head in the town of San Pedro...
SAN SALVADOR (AP): Five people were killed early Monday in separate events that authorities in El Salvador attributed to heavy rains that have persisted since the weekend. In Tacuba, near the country’s border with Guatemala, three people died after...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy Tuesday that would lift the threat of deportation for tens of thousands of people married to US citizens, an aggressive election-year action on immigration...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Governor Wes Moore ordered more than 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions on Monday, saying the “most sweeping state-level pardon in any state” will help reverse harms from the past...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A landslide surged over a highway in central Ecuador on Sunday, killing at least six people and leaving 30 others missing, authorities said as heavy rains pummelled the country and caused rivers to overflow....
LONDON (AP): With less than three weeks until Britain’s election day, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is running out of time to change an ominous tune for his Conservative Party. The UK leader — who in recent days travelled to a G7 summit and a Swiss...
MINA (AP): Masses of pilgrims on Sunday embarked on a symbolic stoning of the Devil in Saudi Arabia under the soaring summer heat. The ritual marks the final days of the Hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage, and the start of the Eid al-Adha...
SANAA (AP): Yemen's Houthi rebels and its internationally recognised government are locked in a fight for control of the country's banks that experts warn is threatening to further wreck an economy already crippled by nearly a decade of war. The...
BERLIN (AP) — German police said Sunday they shot and wounded a man who was threatening them with a pick hammer and a Molotov cocktail in the northern city of Hamburg, hours before it hosted a match in the European Championship football...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The president of Honduras has announced the creation of a new 20,000-capacity "megaprison," part of the government's larger crackdown on gang violence and efforts to overhaul its long-troubled prison...
LONDON (AP) — Britain put on a display of birthday pageantry Saturday for King Charles III, a military parade that marked the Princess of Wales ' first appearance at a public event since her cancer diagnosis early this year. The annual...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP): South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was expected to be reelected for a second term Friday after his African National Congress (ANC) party signed a last-minute coalition agreement with its long-time political rival...
PARIS (AP): Leaders of France’s left-wing parties, allied in a new coalition known as the New Popular Front, outlined their plan on Friday to prevent the surging far right from taking power at upcoming snap national parliamentary elections. While...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday declared war on gold smugglers and threatened that the government of Guyana will be tightening the sanctions to include forfeiture of assets, among other harsh penalties for large-...
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a ceasefire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Ukraine...
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — A family of six, including three children, were killed Friday by gunmen in the southern Mexico border state of Chiapas in a town marred by militia violence. Julio Pérez, the mayor of the Chiapas town of...
LONDON (AP) — The Princess of Wales says she is "making good progress" in her cancer treatment and will attend Saturday's royal Trooping the Colour ceremony, Kate's first public appearance since her diagnosis. The 42-year-...
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A Louisiana woman was found dead in her home Thursday, and her two young daughters were abducted and found hours later in Mississippi — one dead and the other alive, police said. A Louisiana resident who had...
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to "immediately" order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO....
BAYAMÓN (AP): A power company in Puerto Rico announced Thursday that it has restored electricity to most areas affected by a massive outage that hit the US territory the previous day. The outage left over 340,000 customers in the capital, San Juan...
WASHINGTON (AP): A US Navy submarine has arrived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military exercises in the Caribbean. US Southern Command said the USS Helena, a nuclear-powered fast...
