PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince. When they do, school director Roseline Ceragui Louis finds that there is only one way to try to calm them and keep...
SAMASTIPUR (AP): Millions of Indians across 96 constituencies began casting their ballots on Monday as the country’s gigantic, six-week-long election edges past its halfway mark. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third straight term with an...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers. Harris was participating in a conversation...
NEW YORK (AP) — Melinda French Gates will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she and her ex-husband Bill Gates founded and built into one of the world's largest philanthropic organisations over...
LONDON (AP) — A 75-year-old man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced Friday for the murder of a British police officer who was shot dead during an armed robbery in northern England nearly two decades ago. Piran...
PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers recovered more bodies Monday after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud, leaving 43 people dead and another 15 missing. The heavy...
HAMBURG (AP): The pirate flag is flying in the Bundesliga again. St Pauli returned to Germany’s top division after a 13-year absence on Sunday with a 3-1 win over relegated Osnabrück in the second division. Oladapo Afolayan scored twice and set...
RAFAH (AP): Israeli forces pushed deeper into Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Sunday and battled Hamas in parts of the devastated north that the military said it had cleared months ago but where militants have regrouped. Neighbouring Egypt issued...
Hooded police raided Tunisia’s bar association headquarters and arrested a lawyer as authorities escalated a broad government crackdown that has ensnared political dissidents, non-governmental organisations and black migrants. Sonia Dahmani, a...
GENEVA (AP); After the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization (WHO) and worldwide vowed to do better in the future. Years later, countries are still...
ROME (AP): Pope Francis pressed his campaign Friday to urge Italians to have children, calling for long-term policies to help families and warning that the country’s demographic crisis was threatening the future. “The number of births is the first...
CARACAS, Venezuela (CMC): Venezuela has criticised the decision by the Guyana government to allow two United States fighter jets to overfly the capital, Georgetown and surrounding areas, as part of defence cooperation. In a brief statement on...
KINGSTOWN, (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is defending his government’s decision to table the Public Order (Amendment) Bill, 2024, saying the consumption of alcohol at funerals “has become quite terrible”. “We treat funerals in a very...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teenage sex-trafficking victim convicted of fatally stabbing a man whom she accused of abusing her has absconded from her probation, authorities said in court records. The Iowa Department of...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of mothers of missing people, relatives and activists marched in protest through downtown Mexico City Friday to mark a sad commemoration of Mother's Day. The marchers, angry over what they say is the government...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — Powerful storms left thousands without electricity Friday in Florida and other Southeastern states, where damaging winds toppled trees onto homes and power lines following days of deadly severe weather that...
GENEVA (AP) — Years after the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, countries are still struggling to come up with an agreed-upon plan for how the world might respond to the...
JERUSALEM (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a US threat to withhold some arms would not prevent Israel from continuing its offensive in Gaza, indicating it might proceed with an invasion of the packed city of Rafah against...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN (AP) Militants detonated a bomb at a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure, police said Thursday. No one was harmed in the overnight attack....
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): US-based low-cost carrier, Spirit Airlines, which had suspended its services to and from Haiti last month, will be resuming flights between the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International airport and Cap-Haïtien as of Friday. In a...
MEXICO CITY (AP): The administration of Mexico’s president has accused the press and volunteer searchers who look for the bodies of missing people of “necrophilia,” comments that drew criticism this week. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Puerto Rico’s governor has declared a state of emergency following heavy rains, widespread flooding and landslides in the US territory. One person has been reported missing. Gov Pedro Pierluisi also activated the National...
DAKAR (AP): A Boeing 737-300 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, according to the transport minister, an airline safety group and footage from a passenger that showed the aircraft...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden said that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah – the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza – over concern for the well-being of the more than one...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Boeing 737-300 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Senegal's capital, injuring 10 people, according to the transport minister, an airline safety group and footage from a passenger that...
