KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is defending the decision of the ruling Unity Labour Party’s (ULP) not to remove two billboards in the capital, promoting himself and his party, which have been set on fire twice since...
DUBAI (AP): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) tried to wring itself out Thursday after the heaviest recorded rainfall ever to hit the desert nation, with its main airport allowing more flights even as floodwater still covered portions of major...
HARARE (AP): Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday. Zimbabwe marked 44 years of independence from white minority rule,...
NAIROBI (AP: Kenya’s military chief General Francis Ogolla died in a helicopter crash west of the country, President William Ruto announced Thursday and declared three days of national mourning. The helicopter was carrying 11 people, including...
LONDON (AP): Prince Harry, the son of King Charles III and fifth in line to the British throne, has formally confirmed he is now a U.S. resident. Four years after Harry and his American wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, decamped to a villa in...
MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration sent about 50 Haitians back to their country on Thursday, authorities said, marking the first deportation flight in several months to the Caribbean nation struggling with surging gang violence. The...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States vetoed a widely backed UN resolution on Thursday that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for the state of Palestine. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favour...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates struggled Thursday to recover from the heaviest recorded rainfall ever to hit the desert nation, as its main airport worked to restore normal operations even as floodwater still...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Haiti has named the members of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), paving the way for the French-speaking Caribbean Community country to continue efforts at holding fresh elections in a bid to end the...
TORONTO (AP): Police say nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago. Peel Regional Police said on Wednesday that 6,600 gold bars...
MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela, admonishing President Nicolás Maduro's attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the US eased restrictions in a bid to...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador on Tuesday in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican Embassy in Quito...
LONDON (AP): During her 49 days as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, Liz Truss sparked mayhem on the financial markets and turmoil within her Conservative Party. Now she is speaking up, and her message is: It wasn’t me. In interviews and a...
LONDON (AP): A Muslim student who wanted to pray during lunchtime lost a court fight on Tuesday against a strict London school that had banned prayer on campus. A High Court judge said the female student had accepted when she enrolled in the school...
ST LOUIS (AP): A St Louis judge on Monday awarded nearly $23.5 million to a former police officer who was beaten by colleagues while working undercover during a protest. Luther Hall was badly injured in the 2017 attack during one of several...
NEW YORK (AP) — Four people were shot, one fatally, on a street corner in the Bronx Tuesday evening by shooters riding on scooters, police said. About 10 shots were fired after two scooters pulled up to the intersection after 6 p.m...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador on Tuesday began to ration electricity in the country's main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants that produce about...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The mayor of Colombia's capital on Monday announced new measures to reduce water consumption in the city of eight million people, where a drought associated with the El Niño weather pattern has already...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Floods have killed 58 people in Tanzania during the last two weeks, the government said, as heavy rains continue in the East African country. The coastal region was hit hardest, with 126,831 people affected, according to...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The North-West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) is being sued for medical negligence by the parents of seven babies who died earlier this month as a result of bacterial outbreaks at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH...
CHICAGO (AP): Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked a freeway leading to three Chicago O’Hare International Airport terminals on Monday morning, temporarily stopping vehicular traffic into one of the nation’s busiest airports and causing headaches...
World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron told the BBC on Monday that the UK does not support a...
ISLAMABAD (AP): Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 36 people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said on Monday, as authorities in the country’s southwest declared a state of emergency. Most of the deaths...
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (AP) — Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife were charged Monday with abusing and assaulting their teenage daughter on multiple occasions, including hitting her in the head with a broom and knocking her unconscious....
