DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): The Israeli military withdrew from Gaza’s largest hospital early Monday after a two-week raid that engulfed the facility and surrounding districts in fighting. Footage showed widespread devastation, with the facility’s main...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): A High Court judge has sentenced a mentally ill man, who killed one person and injured two others on a “day of mayhem and violence” in the capital, to 12 years and eight months in prison. Justice Richard Floyd imposed the longest...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the United States surfing the Internet through its Chrome web browser. The records purge comes...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The mayor of Colombia's second largest city has issued a six month ban on prostitution in one of the city's most famous neighbourhoods, arguing that it is a necessary step to prevent the sexual exploitation of...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Marijuana campaigners in Germany lit celebratory joints on Monday as the country legalised possession of small amounts of cannabis for recreational use over objections from doctors and police. The German Cannabis...
United Airlines is asking its pilots to take time off in May because of delays in receiving new planes that the airline ordered from Boeing, which is struggling with production due to manufacturing problems. A United spokesperson said Monday that...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Strong winds in southern Poland on Monday toppled trees that killed three adults and two children, emergency responders said. A spokesperson for the region's firefighters, Hubert Cieply, said two women and a 6-year-...
NEW DELHI (AP) — A court in India on Monday placed a top opposition leader in two weeks of judicial detention after his 10 days in the custody of a federal agency expired, in a case that opposition parties say is part of a crackdown by Prime...
BASSETERRE (CMC): The Guadeloupe Volcanological and Seismological Observatory (OVSG) has addressed concerns about smoke observed at Soufrière volcano on the island. The observatory, in an online post on Friday, said many people would have...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced concern about the health and nutrition of Haitian children, following recent findings from analysis conducted by the Integrated Food Security Classification Framework (...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): President Chandrikapersad Santokhi is to make his first visit to China soon, the state-owned Suriname Communications Service (CDS) has announced. It made the announcement following the visit of representatives from China’s...
NASSAU (CMC): The Bahamas National Statistical Institute (BNSI) says the country has recorded a 2.6 per cent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) last year as the Caribbean Community country returns to pre-COVID-19 pandemic economic...
MANGWE (AP): Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep in rural Zimbabwe. “I don’t want to lose a single drop,” she...
BALTIMORE (AP): Generations of Maryland workers –longshoremen, seafarers, steelworkers and crabbers whose livelihoods depend on Baltimore’s port – watched in disbelief this week as an iconic symbol of their maritime culture crumbled into the...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Armed gunmen attacked a group of people in Ecuador 's coastal city of Guayaquil killing nine and injuring 10 others, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of violent incidents in the South American country. The...
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III shook hands and chatted with onlookers after attending an Easter service at Windsor Castle on Sunday in his most significant public outing since being diagnosed with cancer last month. The king, dressed in a...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will return to the table for ceasefire talks with Hamas. Friday’s announcement marks yet another attempt to reach a deal with the militant group that would pause Israel’s military offensive in Gaza in...
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP): A tropical cyclone that swept across Madagascar has killed 18 people and left four missing after making landfall on the north of the Indian Ocean island nation earlier this week, authorities said on Friday. The storm...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Former South African President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections, the Independent Electoral Commission has ruled. The commission said at a media briefing on Thursday that it had upheld an objection against...
BANGKOK (AP): A Thai court on Friday acquitted nearly 70 people of all charges related to mass protests that shut down Bangkok’s two airports in 2008 for about 10 days. The ruling by the Bangkok Criminal Court was the second this year finding that...
MMAMATLAKALA, South Africa (AP): Forensic investigators in South Africa were searching Friday for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire. An eight year-old child was the only...
JERUSALEM (AP): Hundreds of Christians participated in a customary Good Friday procession through the limestone walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, commemorating one of the faith’s most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has confirmed that a senior official of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) had been detained and questioned by United States law enforcement authorities at the John F, Kennedy International Airport...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is warning of an upsurge in dengue cases in the Americas including Barbados and the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. It says as of March 26, this year, over 3.5 million cases...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis skipped the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome's Colosseum, the Vatican said, adding to concerns about his frail health during a particularly busy liturgical period. Francis had been expected to preside...
