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Published:Saturday | June 1, 2024 | 4:36 PM

GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama's Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to...

Published:Saturday | June 1, 2024 | 12:08 AM

ACCRA (AP): Meet Ace-Liam Ankrah, a Ghana toddler who has set the record as the world’s youngest male artist. His mother, Chantelle Kukua Eghan, says it all started by accident when her son, who at the time was 6 months old, discovered her acrylic...

Published:Saturday | June 1, 2024 | 12:07 AM

LONDON (AP): The UK’s first black female member of parliament will be allowed to stand for the Labour Party in the upcoming general election, leader Keir Starmer said Friday following a fractious few days over her political future. Starmer told...

Published:Saturday | June 1, 2024 | 12:07 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP): South Africa was heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time and a series of complex negotiations to achieve that, as partial election results Friday put the ruling African National...

Published:Saturday | June 1, 2024 | 12:07 AM

PATNA (AP): A blistering heat wave has killed at least 14 people, including 10 election officials, in eastern India with temperatures soaring up to 49.9 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of the country this week, officials said...

Published:Saturday | June 1, 2024 | 12:06 AM

SUMY REGION (AP): Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners of war on Friday, each sending back 75 POWs in the first such swap in the past three months, officials said. The Ukrainian POWs, including four civilians, were returned on several buses that...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 9:22 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of passengers who died in two jetliner crashes pushed federal officials Friday to prosecute Boeing on criminal charges related to the accidents no later than this fall but said they got no commitment from the...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 7:08 PM

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador said authorities have broken up a plot to plant bombs around the country to coincide with President Nayib Bukele's inauguration on Saturday. The country's National Police said the plot...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 12:51 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump attacked the judge and the star witness in his criminal hush money trial and again tried to undermine New York's criminal justice system on Friday while seeking to turn his conviction on 34 felony charges into...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 9:57 AM

PARIS (AP) — The French interior minister said Friday that security authorities have foiled a plan to attack football events during the Paris Olympics. Gerald Darmanin said in a statement that the members of the General Directorate of...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 8:59 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — As high-stakes elections approach in the US and European Union, publicly available artificial intelligence tools can be easily weaponised to churn out convincing election lies in the voices of leading political figures, a...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 12:07 AM

CASTRIES (CMC): Cardinal Kelvin Felix, the first person from the English-speaking Caribbean to have been elevated to that position, died on Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was 91 years old. Pope Francis, who made Felix a Cardinal on February...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 12:07 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): An executive member of the political party, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Kidackie Amsterdam, was Thursday charged under the Cyber Crime Act with using a computer system to encourage or incite persons to commit a criminal...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 12:07 AM

CHICAGO (AP): A Chicago woman who pleaded guilty to helping her mother kill a pregnant teenager in 2019 before the baby was cut from her womb with a butcher knife was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison. Desiree Figueroa, 29, had pleaded...

Published:Friday | May 31, 2024 | 12:07 AM

DAKAR (AP): Billons of dollars in gold is smuggled out of Africa each year and most of it ends up in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where it is refined and sold to customers around the world, according to a report published Thursday. Over US$30...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 9:07 PM

BIKANER, India (AP) — People in northern India have been struggling with an unrelenting, weekslong heat wave that has forced schools to close in some places and raised the risk of heatstrokes for labourers working outdoors. India's...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 8:36 PM

GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi educator was sentenced Thursday to nearly 200 years in prison for multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a child, federal prosecutors said. Chief US District Judge Debra M. Brown sentenced...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 5:52 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman who pleaded guilty to helping her mother kill a pregnant teenager in 2019 before the baby was cut from her womb with a butcher knife was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison. Desiree Figueroa, 29,...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 4:08 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 12:14 PM

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Uganda's parliamentary speaker, her husband and several other officials over corruption and serious abuses of human rights. Parliament Speaker Anita Among was...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 8:33 AM

A French court ruled the auction of a trophy awarded to the late Diego Maradona after the 1986 World Cup can go ahead as planned despite opposition from his heirs, their lawyer told The Associated Press on Thursday. Maradona's heirs tried to...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 12:08 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): Haiti’s newly chosen Prime Minister Garry Conille vowed to seek unity on Wednesday in his first statement since a transitional council selected him to head the government in the troubled Caribbean country under siege by criminal...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 12:08 AM

GRINDAVIK (AP): A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Wednesday, spewing red streams of lava in the latest display of nature’s power, triggering the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa. The eruption began in the early...

Published:Thursday | May 30, 2024 | 12:08 AM

DERA ISMAIL KHAN (AP): A group of armed men used kerosene to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said on Wednesday, in the latest in a series of such attacks. No...

Published:Wednesday | May 29, 2024 | 9:01 PM

ISLAMABAD (AP) — About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan were forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, a nongovernmental organisation said. Nearly three out of 10 Afghan children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger...

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