NEW DELHI (AP) — Bangladesh evacuated nearly 800,000 people from vulnerable areas on Sunday as the country and neighbouring India awaited the arrival of a severe cyclone that has formed over the Bay of Bengal. The storm is expected to cross...
NEW YORK (AP) — A man set a cup of liquid on fire and tossed it at a fellow subway rider in New York City, setting the victim's shirt ablaze and injuring him, police said Sunday. The random attack happened on a No. 1 train in lower...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean judge on Saturday ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official detained for allegedly planning and causing a mammoth forest fire in the Valparaiso region that caused 137 deaths and made 16,...
LONDON (AP) — Twelve people were injured when a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin on Sunday hit turbulence, airport authorities said. Eight of the injured were hospitalised. Dublin Airport said in a statement that...
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...
CMC: The Biden administration late Friday extended “deepest condolences” to the families of the two US citizens killed by gangs in Haiti. “On behalf of the President, our Ambassador in Haiti is in touch with the families who we know are...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The government is moving ahead with its plans to monetise its natural gas resources found within the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, as part of its efforts to generate cheaper energy and create other products. This is...
LONDON (AP) British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has portrayed himself as thorough and evidence-led. That’s why his gamble to call a United Kingdom (UK) general election for July 4 has come as such a surprise. Those personal traits were supposed to...
NEW DELHI (AP) — A massive fire broke out Saturday at an amusement park in Gujarat state in western India, killing at least 22 people, including several children, police said. The fire erupted at the park in the city of Rajkot in Gujarat...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was charged Friday in a long-running witness tampering investigation. Uribe was formally charged with witness tampering and bribery for his efforts to discredit a...
GENEVA (AP) — A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed — for now — to come up with a plan for how the world...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): A man who killed his second common-law wife, seven months after he had been released from prison for killing the first, has been sentenced to 26 years in jail with the judge ordering that he be put on probation for...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is under way, officials in the South Pacific...
ROME (AP): Pope Francis paved the way for the canonisation of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukaemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3,...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave....
LONDON (AP) — A British neonatal nurse who was convicted of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has lost her bid to appeal. Lucy Letby, 34, had asked for permission to challenge the verdict after she was...
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who says Sean 'Diddy' Combs subjected her to violence and abuse over several years in the 1990s has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing the rapper of sexual assault, battery and gender-motivated violence....
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — American Airlines has distanced itself from a court filing in which the carrier said a 9-year-old girl should have noticed there was a camera taped to the seat of an airplane bathroom. A former flight...
WASHINGTON (AP): Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina. There’s an 85 per cent chance that the Atlantic hurricane...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks in more than four years, to discuss how to revive their cooperation, South Korea’s presidential office said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP): The UN World Food Program said Wednesday that it has handed out in Gaza in recent days a “limited number” of high-energy biscuits that arrived from a US-built pier, the first aid from the new humanitarian sea route to get into the...
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing Russia to confiscate assets of US companies and individuals to compensate for any Russian assets confiscated in the United States. The decree was published on the Russian government’s legal...
ISLAMABAD (AP): Doctors treated hundreds of victims of heatstroke at hospitals across Pakistan on Thursday after an intense heatwave sent temperatures above normal levels due to climate change, officials said. Temperatures soared as high as 49...
BANGKOK (AP): Passengers on the Singapore Airlines flight that descended sharply after hitting severe turbulence described the “sheer terror” of the aircraft shuddering, loose items flying, and people wrenched so badly that 20 remained on Wednesday...
SAN JUAN (AP): A rare tornado in northern Haiti has injured more than 50 people and destroyed more than 200 homes, the UN said on Wednesday. The tornado hit the community of Bassin-Bleu on Tuesday, leaving more than 300 families homeless, according...
