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Published:Thursday | March 21, 2024 | 12:08 AM

LONDON (AP): Vaughan Gething was elected first minister of Wales on Wednesday, becoming the first black leader of a government in the UK. Gething was elected government leader by members of the Welsh parliament in Cardiff, four days after winning...

Published:Wednesday | March 20, 2024 | 4:13 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York state lawyers urged an appellate court Wednesday not to buy former President Donald Trump's claims that it's impossible to post a bond fully covering a US$454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals. The...

Published:Wednesday | March 20, 2024 | 2:13 PM

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. Kristel...

Published:Wednesday | March 20, 2024 | 12:08 AM

CAPE TOWN, (AP): South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by a former president to court, underscoring a fractious buildup to what could be the country’s...

Published:Wednesday | March 20, 2024 | 12:08 AM

SAO PAULO (AP): Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused on Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store....

Published:Wednesday | March 20, 2024 | 12:08 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley Tuesday urged families to crack down on relatives engaged in criminal activities as Trinidad and Tobago law enforcement authorities seek to stem the rise in murders here. Speaking at the sod-...

Published:Wednesday | March 20, 2024 | 12:08 AM

BOGOTA, (AP): Colombia’s largest criminal group said Tuesday it has accepted President Gustavo Petro’s offer to start peace negotiations, but the next steps in any talks were not immediately clear. The Gaitanista Self Defense Forces of Colombia –...

Published:Wednesday | March 20, 2024 | 12:08 AM

GEORGETOWN (AP): Caribbean leaders said Tuesday that all groups and political parties, except one, have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti, which remains engulfed in...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 5:24 PM

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 1:52 PM

DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — Human rights activists are calling on the Dominican Republic's government for a temporary reprieve in deportations as neighbouring Haiti's crisis spirals and people attempt to flee over the...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 10:56 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly's lawyer told an appeals court Monday that all kinds of legitimate organisations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organisations under a law used to convict the R&B...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 8:42 AM

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice, and...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:11 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation as each side is looking to make “clear to the...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:10 AM

ERREKUNDA (AP): Lawmakers in Gambia on Monday rejected, for now, an attempt to repeal a ban on female genital cutting, which would make the West African nation the first country anywhere to make that reversal. Activists in the largely Muslim...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:09 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has questioned whether residents of an east Port of Spain area will “go back to life and business as normal” following the killing of five people, including a senior police officer,...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (CMC): Republican lawmakers on Friday said the Biden administration “owes Congress a lot more details in a more timely manner before it gets more funding” for Haiti, even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday warned that the...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:09 AM

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP): The UN food agency said on Monday that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70 per cent of the remaining population is experiencing catastrophic hunger, and that a further escalation of the war could push around half...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (AP): The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A bill aimed at overcoming a UK Supreme Court block on the deportation flights returns to the House of...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:08 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): A state police officer and her two bodyguards were killed in a highway attack in Mexico’s violent western state of Michoacan, security officials said on Monday. Michoacan’s state security agency said on X, formerly Twitter, that...

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:08 AM

ABUJA, (AP): Armed gangs attacked two villages in Nigeria’s northwest over the weekend and seized at least 100 people from their homes, residents and a state official told The Associated Press on Monday in the latest mass abduction in the region....

Published:Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 12:08 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Gangs attacked two upscale neighbourhoods in Haiti’s capital early Monday in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas. Gunmen looted homes in the communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise...

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 3:40 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing programme after lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles severely hampered the legal market and allowed black-market sellers to flourish, Governor Kathy Hochul...

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 9:31 AM

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan is closing all schools starting Monday in preparation for an extreme heat wave that is expected to last two weeks. The health and education ministries advised parents to keep all children indoors...

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 12:10 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC) The United Nations children’s agency said one of its containers carrying essential supplies for the survival of newborn babies and their mothers was looted by gangs at Haiti’s main port in the capital on Saturday. UNICEF...

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 12:10 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC) Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh says the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will soon acquire two new aircraft from India with a US$23.27 million loan from India’s Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank). The agreement was signed on...

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