WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of guns stolen from cars in the US has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found. The rate of stolen...
PORTO ALEGRE (AP): Authorities in southern Brazil rushed Wednesday to rescue survivors of massive flooding that has killed at least 100 people, but some residents refused to leave belongings behind while others returned to evacuated homes despite...
CASTRIES (CMC): Prime Minister Phillip J. Pierre says he will seek regional support against moves by banks operating in the Caribbean to establish cashless transactions. “I have been very cautious in what I say about banks. Very cautious … because...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) ended its 32nd Congress on Sunday with the party deciding on removing the Marxism-Leninism and socialism tag that underlined its political philosophy for years. In addition, the party...
TORONTO (AP): More than 60 people were arrested and hundreds of charges were filed in a series of investigations into child sexual abuse in Ontario, Canadian police said Wednesday. Provincial Police Det Staff Sgt Tim Brown said the investigations...
GEORGE (AP): Rescue teams used underground cameras and sniffer dogs on Wednesday to search for nearly 40 construction workers still missing in rubble two days after the collapse of an apartment building under construction in coastal South Africa....
LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was accused on Wednesday of leading a “chaotic” government as another one of his Conservative lawmakers defected to the main opposition Labour Party ahead of a looming general election. In a stunning...
NAIROBI (AP): Kenya’s public hospital doctors union on Wednesday signed a return to work agreement with the government, ending a national strike that began in mid-March and had left patients in limbo. Davji Atellah, the union secretary general,...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): Suriname has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to indicate a willingness to send troops to Haiti as part of a United Nations-sanctioned Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission to be led by Kenya. “We...
BOULEVARD, California (AP) — Julia Paredes believed her move to the United States might be now or never. Mexico was days from requiring visas for Peruvian visitors. If she didn't act quickly, she would have to make a far more perilous,...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York-area doctor was convicted Wednesday in the yearslong sexual abuse of multiple patients, including four children. Darius A. Paduch of North Bergen, New Jersey, was convicted by a jury in Manhattan federal court of...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's public hospital doctors union on Wednesday signed a return to work agreement with the government, ending a national strike that began in mid-March and had left patients in limbo. Davji Atellah, the...
TORONTO (AP) — More than 60 people were arrested and hundreds of charges were filed in a series of investigations into child sexual abuse in Ontario, Canadian police said Wednesday. Provincial Police Detective Staff Sergeant Tim Brown said...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico was hit by hours of rolling blackouts late Tuesday due to high temperatures and temporary drops in electrical power generation. The government's National Center for Energy Control said the blackouts lasted a...
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — French Olympic swimmer Florent Manaudou became the first Olympic torch carrier in France after the Olympic flame arrived in Marseille's Old Port Wednesday on a majestic three-mast ship from Greece for the...
LONDON (AP) — The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator. In an update on the European Medicines Agency's website Wednesday, the...
LOME (AP): Togo’s president has signed a new constitution eliminating presidential elections, his office said late Monday, a move that opponents say will allow him to extend his family’s six-decade rule. Civil society groups in the West African...
CAIRO (AP): Israeli troops seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-scale invasion of the southern city and ceasefire talks with Hamas remain...
NAIROBI (AP): Kenya’s government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of US$75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains. In the capital, Nairobi, a bulldozer...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested black children in the Bronx do not know what the word “computer” means. Hochul, a Democrat, made the extemporaneous...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains. In the...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City-area man who is charged with killing his hospitalised wife told police he couldn't take care of her or afford her medical bills, court records say. Ronnie Wiggs made his first appearance Monday on a...
TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the US over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it's sold to another company, arguing that it relies on vaguely painting it as a threat to national security to get...
President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term at a glittering Kremlin inauguration Tuesday, embarking on another six years as leader of Russia after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and concentrating all...
NewAP: Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper...
