MADRID (AP): Spain will this week deport more than 60 Bolivians who arrived last week by cruise ship in the northeastern port of Barcelona, but were not allowed to disembark because their visas were false. The Spanish government’s office in...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP): Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced Thursday to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam in the country’s largest financial fraud case ever, state media Vietnam Net said. The 67-year-old chair of the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Strong economic activity in the United States and emerging markets is projected to help drive global growth by about 3% this year, the International Monetary Fund's chief said Thursday, below the annual...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced Thursday to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam in the country's largest financial fraud case ever, state media Vietnam Net said. The 67-...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president said Thursday his country wants the United Nations to suspend Ecuador from the world body as part of a complaint to the top UN court over Ecuador's police raid last week on the Mexican...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — OJ Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. The family...
LONDON (AP) — Instagram said it's deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages. The social media platform said in a blog post Thursday...
BERLIN (AP): A court in Germany on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to 13 years in prison for attempted murder for injecting mercury into his one-year-old daughter’s foot. The man’s girlfriend was sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents. For years...
ALBANY, NY (AP): Two conservative political operatives who orchestrated a robocall campaign to dissuade black people from voting in the 2020 election have agreed to pay up to $1.25 million under a settlement with New York state, Attorney General...
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Already sentenced to many years in federal prison, six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two black men were sentenced Wednesday...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's government extended exemptions to tourist visa requirements for citizens of the United States, Australia and Canada until April 2025, extending a program aimed at boosting tourism that had been scheduled to...
US President Joe Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approach to the war against Hamas is mistaken. Biden's remarks in a television interview that aired late Tuesday deepen an already growing rift between the two staunch...
CAIRO (AP): Egyptian officials said Tuesday that mediators have presented a new ceasefire proposal to Hamas and Israel that would include a six-week pause in fighting and a swap of 40 Hamas-held hostages for at least 700 Palestinians imprisoned by...
NAIROBI (AP): A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi has laid off 100 doctors who are taking part in a nationwide strike that has been ongoing for almost a month, its management said Tuesday. The Kenyatta University Referral Hospital said...
PONTIAC, Michigan (AP): A judge sentenced the parents of a Michigan school shooter to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented a “runaway train” – the killing of four students in 2021. Jennifer and...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a six-year-old boy brought a gun to class and shot his first-grade teacher. A...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A public hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi has laid off 100 doctors who are taking part in a nationwide strike that has been ongoing for almost a month, its management said Tuesday. The Kenyatta...
PONTIAC, Michigan (AP) — The parents of a Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killing of four students in 2021. Jennifer and James...
QUITO(AP): The global condemnation of Ecuador’s government for its decision to break into the Mexican Embassy snowballed Sunday with more presidents and other leaders expressing disapproval, shock and dismay. The criticism came as Mexico’s...
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines has denied permission for two airlines operating chartered flights from Nigeria, Dubai, and Morocco to land in the country. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, who is also Minister of...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, (CMC): Bishop Clive Harvey has announced the “immediate and indefinite” suspension of a Roman Catholic priest after he failed to stop making contentious remarks regarding the ongoing war in the Gaza between Israel and the...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP): A Malaysian shoe company has apologised and stopped selling some of its footwear after some Muslims said the logo resembled the Arabic writing for the word God. Vern’s Holdings said the logo stamped on the soles of some high-...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice, following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours. Two police officers were injured and an undetermined number of...
PANAMA CITY (AP): The trial of 27 people charged in connection with the worldwide ‘Panama Papers’ money laundering started on Monday in a Panamanian criminal court. Those on trial include the owners of the Mossack Fonseca law firm that was at the...
