LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday set July 4 as the date for a national election that will determine who governs the UK, as his divided and demoralised Conservative Party looks likely to lose power after 14 years. “Now is...
TEL AVIV (AP): Norway, Ireland and Spain said on Wednesday they would recognise a Palestinian state, a historic but largely symbolic move that further deepens Israel’s isolation more than seven months into its grinding war against Hamas in Gaza....
CAIRO (AP): The United Nations said Tuesday it suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity. It also said no aid trucks entered in the past two days via a floating pier set up by the US for...
CALIFORNIA, (CMC): A 41-year-old Chinese national with St Kitts-Nevis citizenship has been arrested for the role he played in a scheme to launder proceeds from cryptocurrency investment scams. According to the indictment unsealed in the Central...
MAIDUGURI (AP): Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, who were held captive for months or years by Boko Haram extremists in northeastern Nigeria have been rescued from a forest enclave and handed over to authorities, the army said. The...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities in Pakistan on Tuesday urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures and yet another round of glacial-driven floods. Pakistan'...
BANGKOK (AP) — One person has died aboard a London-Singapore flight that encountered severe turbulence, Singapore Airlines said Tuesday, in which the plane apparently plummeted for a number of minutes before it was diverted to Bangkok, where...
LONDON (AP): British authorities and the country’s public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an...
JERUSALEM (AP): The death of Iran’s president is unlikely to lead to any immediate changes in Iran’s ruling system or to its overarching policies, which are decided by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti’s main international airport reopened on Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it to all traffic in early March. The reopening of the Toussaint-...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was disqualified Monday from running for a Parliament seat in next week's national election because of a previous criminal conviction. The decision by the...
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak populist Prime Minister Robert Fico's condition is improving following an assassination attempt last week that shocked the European Union nation deeply polarised over his policies. “After...
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order to the United States on espionage charges, a London court ruled Monday — a decision likely to further drag out an already long legal saga. High Court judges...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media...
Jacume (AP) Near the towering border wall flanked by a US Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the scrub yelp “chi-ca-go”, a sound the birds use to signal they are separated from a mate or group. Then silence. A quail...
Accra (AP) Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana’s capital as a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone. “I don’t think I could work without a phone in my line of business,” she said, as requests...
VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos' rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F Kennedy...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials apparently crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday, sparking a massive...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Parts of northwest India sweltered under scorching temperatures on Saturday, with the capital New Delhi under a severe weather alert as extreme temperatures strike parts of the country. India's weather department expects...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Leader of the main Opposition, New National Party (NNP), Dr Keith Mitchell, under pressure to step down and allow for the election of a new leader, says his support for the new party leader will be guided by God. “I will listen...
NEW YORK (CMC): The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has condemned a new United States rule that solidifies the ‘Recent Arrivals’ (RA) Docket process aimed at reducing the time it takes to decide the fate of newly arrived Caribbean and other...
AP: Dozens of Israeli protesters attacked a truck in the occupied West Bank, beating its driver and setting it on fire in an apparent attempt to prevent aid from reaching Gaza, the Israeli military said Friday. The Israeli military says soldiers...
NEW DELHI, India (AP): Vijay Lakshmi, 85, stood beaming at the entrance of her house as she welcomed a team dispatched by the Election Commission of India. They were here to collect her vote. The team visiting Vijay Lakshmi’s neighbourhood...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Security video aired by CNN appears to show Sean "Diddy" Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016, the latest in a months-long series of public allegations and revelations of physical...
