United States President Donald Trump's plans for bringing homeownership within reach of more Americans involve pushing for lower interest rates on home loans and credit cards, and banning large institutional investors from buying single-family...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – Suriname has confirmed an outbreak of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, with none of the individuals who tested positive having travelled overseas in recent times. The Ministry of Health said laboratory tests were...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government says it has become aware of serious allegations of sexual exploitation, abuse of authority, and misconduct at the Guyana Police Force Academy. The Ministry of Home Affairs said that upon receipt of...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana has confirmed that an investigation has been launched into the death of a 22-year-old pregnant woman, who is reported to have jumped to her death from a window of the female...
PENSACOLA (AP): A small part of Florida is the Snowy State for the second year in a row. Snow briefly covered the grass and rooftops in parts of the western Florida Panhandle on Sunday morning as just enough frigid air rushed in behind a cold...
KAMPALA (AP): President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that his landslide victory in Uganda’s election showed the dominance of his party, which has governed the east African country for four decades. Museveni said a day after he was declared the...
PENCO (AP): Wildfires raging across central and southern Chile on Sunday left at least 15 people dead, scorched thousands of acres of forest and destroyed scores of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heat wave....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Rows of businesses stood shuttered inside a sprawling complex of Somali businesses on a recent afternoon. Karmel Mall in south Minneapolis contains more than a hundred small businesses in suites offering everything from clothing...
TAIPEI (AP): A journalist in Taiwan was detained on allegations of bribing army officers to provide military information to people from mainland China, as the self-ruled island cracks down on potential infiltration from Beijing. Taiwan’s Qiaotou...
TABQA (AP) Government forces seized a strategic town Sunday in eastern Syria, part of an ongoing push against Kurdish-led forces east of the Euphrates River. This came after tensions between Damascus and the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...
BERLIN (AP) Europeans were reeling Sunday from US President Donald Trump’s announcement that eight countries will face 10 per cent tariffs for opposing American control of Greenland. The responses to Trump’s decision on Saturday ranged from saying...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A climate resilient hurricane shelter, able to withstand category five level disasters and flagged as a global best practice, has been opened and activated on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas, representing a tri-lateral...
NUUK (AP): Troops from several European countries continued to arrive in Greenland on Thursday in a show of support for Denmark as talks between representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the US highlighted “fundamental disagreement” over the future...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City Council employee was arrested in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, enraging city officials and drawing protesters Tuesday to the Manhattan detention centre where he was being held. US Immigration...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Monday that his administration is currently not in talks with the United States government, a day after President Donald Trump threatened the Caribbean island in the wake of the US attack on...
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. The strike was taking place at The Mount Sinai...
SIAYA (AP): Rebecca Anyango stood outside the house she has called home for 26 years, wondering how long it will remain hers. As a widow, she’s been threatened with eviction for years by her late husband’s family, who claim she has no inheritance...
ORLANDO (AP): The next US census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how it will be done and who will be counted. Allies of President Donald Trump are behind the federal lawsuits challenging various aspects of...
HAVANA (AP) As US seizures of Venezuela-linked oil tankers surge, concerns grow in Cuba about whether the island’s government and economy will survive. Experts warn that a sudden halt in Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba could lead to widespread...
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit on Monday announced that Dominica has entered into an agreement with the United States to facilitate the transfer of third-country refugees to the island, to address situations in which the...
LISBON (AP): A record number of 11 candidates in Portugal’s upcoming presidential election kicked off their campaigns on Sunday. The official two-week campaign period preceding the January 18 election will see the contenders competing to capture...
HARBIN (AP) Each January, an odd and beautiful thing happens in the frigid northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. Some would argue that the place, the capital of Heilongjiang province, has enough ice already. But sculptors converge on the town not...
BERLIN (AP) Many households and businesses in south-west Berlin face days without electricity after high-voltage power lines were damaged by a fire which city authorities said Sunday was a result of a politically motivated attack by “left-wing...
DUBAI (AP) Widening protests in Iran, sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy, are putting new pressure on its theocracy. Tehran is still reeling from a 12-day war launched by Israel in June that saw the United States bomb nuclear sites...
ALTADENA (AP) Missi Dowd-Figueroa brought life back to the fire-ravaged plot where her home once stood – one sunflower at a time. The registered nurse and mother of three lost her 1898 farm-style house in the Eaton Fire, one of two deadly...
