N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP): An opposition leader in Chad was among several people killed as he led an attack on the national security agency in the country’s capital this week, the state prosecutor said Thursday. The attack underscored the tenuous...
TORONTO (AP): Canada’s government is reimposing the visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada, the immigration minister announced Thursday. Quebec’s premier has been urging the Canadian government to slow the influx of immigrants,...
NAIROBI (AP): Haiti’s prime minister arrived Thursday in Kenya to try to salvage a plan to have the African country deploy 1,000 police officers to the troubled Caribbean nation to help combat gang violence. Kenya agreed in October to lead a UN-...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's government is reimposing visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada, the immigration minister announced Thursday. Quebec's premier has been urging the Canadian government to slow the influx of...
AP: Representative democracy remains a favourite system of governance around the globe, but its appeal is slipping on the eve of elections in much of the world, according to a survey of 24 democratic countries by the Pew Research Center released...
SAN JUAN, (AP): An offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away, authorities said. This is the first...
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden "continues to be fit for duty," his doctor wrote Wednesday after conducting an annual physical that is being closely watched as the 81-year-old seeks re-election in November. Dr Kevin O'...
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast...
Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2024 | 11:22 AM
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian warlord Salvatore Mancuso was repatriated Tuesday after serving a drug trafficking sentence in the United States and being denied several requests to be sent to Italy, where he also has citizenship...
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry was not improperly stripped of his publicly funded security detail during visits to Britain after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the United States, a London...
Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2024 | 12:07 AM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): Junior doctors in South Korea have four days to end their walkouts or they will have their medical licences suspended and face prosecution, the government said Monday. About 9,000 medical interns and residents have stayed...
Published:Wednesday | February 28, 2024 | 12:07 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s president again lashed out at social media platform YouTube on Monday for taking down part of his daily news briefing where he revealed a reporter’s phone number. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the platform in...
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 20 years after Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay was brazenly gunned down in his recording studio, two men close to him were convicted Tuesday of murder, marking a long-awaited moment in one of the hip-hop world's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Army is slashing the size of its force by about 24,000, or almost 5 per cent, and restructuring to be better able to fight the next major war, as the service struggles with recruiting shortfalls that made it...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city, a long-awaited first step as it considers providing reparations. The San...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization warned on Monday that war, uncertainty and instability are weighing down the global economy and urged the bloc to embrace reform as elections across nearly half...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru declared a health emergency in most of its provinces on Monday due to a growing number of dengue cases that are occurring at a time of higher than usual temperatures caused by the El Nino weather pattern. According to...
NEW YORK (AP): Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge on Monday to impose a gag order on the former president ahead of next month’s trial, citing a “long history of making public and inflammatory remarks”...
Associates of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Monday that talks were under way shortly before his death to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany. “Alexei Navalny could have been sitting here now, today. It’s not a figure...
JERUSALEM (AP): The Palestinian prime minister announced the resignation of his government on Monday, paving the way for a shake-up in the Palestinian Authority, which the US hopes will eventually take on a role in post-war Gaza. Many obstacles...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): An older US couple whose catamaran was hijacked last week in the Caribbean by three escaped prisoners were likely thrown into the ocean and died, police in Grenada said Monday. The announcement is a blow to those who...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) : A 27-year-old woman has been charged with murder for allegedly throwing her five-month-old daughter from a roof late last year, Jamaican police said on Sunday. Authorities said in a statement that the woman was at home...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's President Macky Sall told a national dialogue Monday that elections will be held before the rainy season begins around July, and reiterated his commitment to leave office before his mandate ends in April....
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — At least seven people were shot at a crowded football match in the Cayman Islands and were hospitalised with serious injuries, police said Monday. The shooting that police believe could be gang-related occurred...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An active-duty member of the United States Air Force was critically injured Sunday after setting himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, while declaring that he “will no longer be complicit in...
