Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is seeking court permission to convert his personal bankruptcy reorganisation to a liquidation, which would lead to a sell-off of a large portion of his assets to help pay some of the US$1.5 billion he owes relatives...
NEW DELHI (AP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday was formally elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition, which won the most number of seats in the country’s national election after his political party...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): South African opposition parties were meeting Friday and will continue crunch talks into next week to consider the ruling African National Congress’ (ANC’) offer to become part of a government of national unity. ANC failed to...
LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologised Friday for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to return to the election campaign trail – a decision slammed as disgraceful by his political rivals. Sunak, who is fighting to keep...
CHARLOTTE, United States Virgin Islands (CMC): The leader and two members of a violent criminal gang in the United states Virgin Islands (USVI) have been sentenced to life in prison for their roles in a racketeer influenced and corrupt...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC): Guyana says while there is a consensus among regional partners that Russian warships schedule to navigate towards the Caribbean this month pose no security threat to the region, it nonetheless is assuring citizens that it...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Police say they have arrested a taxi driver in connection with the death of the Jamaica-born singer, Navar George Barton, who was shot and killed on Thursday in Sophia, Greater Georgetown. Police said Friday that Barton,...
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he sees no current threat to Russia's sovereignty that would warrant the use of nuclear weapons but again warned that Moscow could send arms to countries or...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At least nine Yemeni employees of United Nations agencies have been detained by Yemen's Houthi rebels under unclear circumstances, authorities said Friday, as the rebels face increasing financial...
RENO, Nevada (AP) — The first heat wave of the year is expected to maintain its grip on the US Southwest for at least another day, after records tumbled across the region with temperatures soaring past 43 degrees Celsius from...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexican federal immigration authorities said Thursday they have cleared one of Mexico City’s largest downtown tent encampments of migrants. The National Immigration Institute says the migrants had been forced to pay bribes of...
HAVANA (AP): Four Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said Thursday, citing “historically friendly relations” between both nations and as tensions escalate over Western military...
WILMINGTON, Del (AP): The latest on Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial (all times local): President Joe Biden says he won’t pardon his son Hunter if he’s convicted in his federal gun trial. Biden was speaking to ABC News from Normandy France, where...
CAIRO (AP): At least 100 people were killed, and dozens were injured after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a village in Gezira province in Sudan on Wednesday, officials said. Women, children, and elderly were among the victims...
YOLA (AP): Rescuers searched Thursday for dozens of workers who were trapped when a gold mine collapsed in north-central Nigeria, authorities and residents said. The pit collapsed on Monday in Niger state’s remote Shiroro district after heavy rains...
ISBERYALA (AP): Hammocks began appearing this week in the doorways of 300 new houses built in what was previously a yucca field along Panama’s Caribbean coast for families from the country’s first low-lying island evacuated due to rising sea levels...
VER-SUR-MER (AP): King Charles III came to northern France on Thursday to honour the 22,442 British troops who died in the Battle of Normandy. He also came to honour a generation. A generation that sacrificed and fought and died and waited through...
CASTRIES (CMC): The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has unveiled four billboards celebrating the free movement of people across the member states of the sub-regional grouping. The St Lucia-based OECS Commission said that the...
NASSAU (CMC): The Managing Director of the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Authority, Aarone Sargent, says the government is seeking to build at least five hurricane shelters that could withstand category five storms over the next two years....
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and children, according to local health officials. The Israeli...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain became on Thursday the first European country to ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. South Africa filed its case with the International...
LONDON (AP): The first minister of Wales, Vaughan Gething, lost a no-confidence vote in the Welsh parliament on Wednesday, less than three months after he made history as the first black leader of a government in the UK. The opposition...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): United Nations humanitarians on Wednesday warned that no less than 18 crisis locations already suffering from dire food insecurity could see a “firestorm of hunger” unless aid reaches them urgently. Although many “hunger...
ST PETERSBURG (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Germany on Wednesday that the use of its weapons by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia would mark a “dangerous step” and ruin relations between Berlin and Moscow. Germany joined the...
ISLAMABAD (AP): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Wednesday condemned the public flogging of more than 60 people, including more than a dozen women, by the Taliban in northern Sari Pul province. At least 63 people were...
