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GENEVA (CMC): Guyana Tuesday called on the global legislators to condemn new moves by Venezuela to seek to gain control of the Essequibo region that that makes up about two-thirds of the CARICOM country and is home to 125,000 of its 800,000...

WASHINGTON (AP): For over a month, House Speaker Mike Johnson has sat on a funding package that would send desperately needed ammunition and weaponry to Ukraine, mulling how best to gain a grasp of what is expected to be a difficult lift in the...

KADUNA (AP) Parents of more than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued after more than two weeks in captivity said they saw them on Wednesday and that they couldn’t hold back tears of joy during the long-awaited reunion. The meeting, three...

JUBA (AP): South Sudan’s government on Tuesday said schools will reopen next week following a two-week closure due to extreme heat across the country. The health and education ministries said temperatures were expected to steadily drop with the...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital, setting fire to a school and looting pharmacies across the road from the country’s largest public hospital. The attacks that began Monday and...

NEW YORK (CM): Two New York City legislators have called on the United States to increase its intervention and support for Haiti, where criminal gangs are seeking to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry. New York City Council...

LONDON (AP): Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary pleaded not guilty Monday in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges. Choudary, 57, pleaded not guilty to membership in a banned organisation, the radical Muslim group al-Muhajiroun,...