BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A criminal court in Argentina has postponed to October 1 the start of a trial in a criminal negligence case brought against eight people allegedly involved in the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona. The...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jury deliberations began Wednesday in Donald Trump's hush money trial, placing the outcome of the history-making case in the hands of a dozen New Yorkers who have vowed to be fair and impartial in the face of their...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Garry Conille, Haiti's new prime minister, said Wednesday that he was "very honoured" to be chosen for the post, in his first statement since a transitional council selected him to lead the troubled...
NEW YORK (AP): Closing arguments in Donald Trump ‘s historic hush money trial began Tuesday morning in a Manhattan courtroom, giving prosecutors and defence attorneys one final opportunity to convince the jury of their respective cases before...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): A 34-year-old security guard, who circulated nude photos of a woman after she rejected his demand for sex, has been fined and given a suspended prison sentence. Senior Magistrate Tammika Da Silva-McKenzie sentenced Lendon Abraham...
CAPE TOWN (AP): South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces the prospect of his ruling party’s worst election result ever. Yet he’s still likely to be re-elected as leader of Africa’s most advanced country after Wednesday’s national vote. While...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP): Pakistan’s former premier Nawaz Sharif was re-elected president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N party on Tuesday. He last held the position in 2017, when he was forced out of office amid corruption allegations. The PML...
BRUSSELS (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received a second US$1 billion promise of military aid in as many days Tuesday during a whirlwind tour of three European Union countries, while President Vladimir Putin warned that hitting...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Hundreds of people packed into a sweltering church in Haiti’s capital on Tuesday to mourn Judes Montis, a mission director killed by gang members, who also fatally shot an American couple that worked with him. Wails filled the...
LONDON (AP) — The number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015, with a sharp rise in Iran and across the Middle East, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday. The human...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea's mass-casualty disaster because of water streams and bodies trapped beneath the tons of debris...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has rolled out a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign to help safeguard its population against the mosquito-borne disease that has long posed a threat. By the end of April, Ugandan authorities had...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has urged countries of Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean to strengthen preventive measures against dengue fever. In an epidemiological alert last Friday, PAHO pointed to the...
MELBOURNE (AP): A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Friday’s landslide and has formally asked for international help. The government figure...
TEL AVIV (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Monday that a “tragic mistake” had been made after an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah ,setting fire to a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians and,...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The weakening tropical storm Remal flooded dozens of coastal villages and left nearly 30 million people without power Monday in southern Bangladesh and eastern India. At least 10 people died in Bangladesh. About 3.7...
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man convicted of murder based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness is suing the city and the police department. A judge convicted Darien Harris in 2014 in connection with a fatal shooting at a South...
GENEVA (AP) — Member countries kicked off the World Health Organization's annual assembly on Monday with hopes of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like COVID-19, after an ambitious “pandemic treaty” ran aground...
CASTRIES (CMC): The government has distanced itself from issues that led to a lawsuit filed against a number of individuals and entities in the region, including CEO of the Saint Lucia Citizenship by Investment Unit Mc Claude Emmanuel and a...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds has joined with other ministers of small island developing states (SIDS) and ministers and presidents of territorial collectivities to sign a joint declaration to...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Guyana is now the leading kidney transplant country within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), according to Adviser to the Minister of Health and Guyana’s Ambassador to Switzerland, Dr Leslie Ramsammy. Ramsammy noted the...
GEORGETOWN (CMC) Guyana celebrated its 58th Anniversary of Independence yesterday with President Irfaan Ali reflecting on the country’s progress in the last almost six decades and promising Guyanese of more improvements. Addressing a flag raising...
Springfield (AP): The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is once again under the spotlight after a manager failed to consult a collections committee before purchasing a 21-star flag, whose description as a rare banner marking Illinois...
Deir Al-Balah (AP): Aid trucks entered Gaza from southern Israel on Sunday through a new agreement to bypass the Rafah crossing with Egypt after Israeli forces seized the Palestinian side of it earlier this month. But it was unclear if humanitarian...
Melbourne, Australia (AP): The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670 as emergency responders and traumatised relatives gave up hope...
