MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands pro-Beijing Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Monday withdrew from the contest to remain head of the strategically important South Pacific island nation’s government following general elections two...
NEW YORK (AP): Colleges around the US implored pro-Palestinian student protesters to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency on Monday, including an ultimatum from Columbia University for students to sign a form and leave the...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union announced on Monday that it is tightening visa requirements for people from Ethiopia, accusing the government there of a failure to cooperate in taking back citizens found to be living illegally in the 27-...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Elon Musk over a settlement with securities regulators that requires him to get approval in advance of some tweets that relate to Tesla, the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A dam collapsed in western Kenya early Monday, killing at least 40 people after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road, police said. The Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Guyana has launched a campaign to distribute long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) in the Amerindian village of Aishalton, Deep South Rupununi, Region Nine, as part of a national strategy to eliminate malaria in the...
UNITED STATES (CMC): Haitian Rapper Wyclef Jean is hopeful that the installation of a transitional Presidential Council would help to “pivot the nation away from past destructive practices”. In a post on his social media account X (formerly Twitter...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Grenada’s Opposition Leader Dr Keith Mitchell has accused the government of purposefully debating and passing the gun amnesty resolution while he was unavoidably absent. Speaking to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) on the...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC:) Trinidad and Tobago will host a high-level conference on Tuesday, aimed at supporting decision and policy makers, civil society and innovators to define what a Small Island Digital State (SIDS 2.0) requires, and identify the...
VENICE (AP): Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. But, even for a place...
BAGHDAD (AP): Human rights groups and diplomats criticised a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people. United States (US) State Department...
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. But, the next evening, the college...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital yesterday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation’s multicolored flag. But any...
HAVANA (AP) Alejandro Fonseca stood in line for several hours outside a bank in Havana hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM, but when it was almost his turn, the cash ran out. He angrily hopped on his electric tricycle and traveled several...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs pushed back against a woman's lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault, filing a motion on Friday to dismiss some claims that were not under law when the alleged incident...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities on Saturday were investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer, who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad. Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, known as "Um Fahad...
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's lawyer said Saturday that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalised for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction....
LONDON (AP): TikTok is in the crosshairs of authorities in the US, where new legislation threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests. It would be the biggest blow yet to the popular video-sharing app, which has faced...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): It has been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the Caribbean nation’s new leaders is rapidly growing. Haitians want security, food, jobs — and they want...
NEW YORK (AP) — An emergency slide fell off a Delta Air Lines jetliner shortly after takeoff Friday from New York, and pilots who felt a vibration in the plane circled back to land safely at JFK Airport. Delta said that after takeoff the...
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is back. The 75-year-old monarch will resume some public duties next week following a three-month break to focus on his treatment and recuperation after he was diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer,...
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said Thursday. Authorities said the case...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania's capital on Friday ruled that a trial can start in the case of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The...
PORT AU PRINCE, (CMC): A new provisional government was sworn in on Thursday in this French-speaking CARICOM member state, nearly two months after a criminal insurrection plunged the capital into chaos. The nine-person “transitional council” was...
DAKAR (AP): Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. The mass killings took...
