CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines said Friday that it is raising its fees for checking bags, following a similar move earlier this week by American Airlines. Starting with tickets booked on Saturday, economy-class passengers on domestic flights...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn preacher with ties to New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to go on trial Monday in Manhattan federal court over charges that he looted a parishioner's retirement savings and tried to extort a...
SINGAPORE (AP): A crack of thunder booms as dozens of screens in a locked office flash between live video of cars splashing through wet roads, drains sapping the streets dry, and reservoirs collecting the precious rainwater across the tropical...
WESTROZEBEKE (AP): It was the puddles of green sludge left by the tires of massive tractors in western Belgium's industrial farmlands that drew the attention of biological engineer Ineke Maes. The slime was destructive algae, the result of the...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Nine people were killed in a road crash in South Africa on Sunday after attending an election rally by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress party. The ANC supporters were...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two United States senators looking to crack down on the number of packages from China that enter the country duty-free are calling for President Joe Biden to take executive action, saying American manufacturers can...
BERLIN (AP): German lawmakers on Friday approved a government plan to liberalise rules on cannabis, paving the way for the country to decriminalise limited amounts of marijuana and allow members of ‘cannabis clubs’ to buy it for recreational...
VALLETTA (AP): A 25-foot boat loaded with migrants capsized off Malta on Friday as rescue operations were under way, killing five people and injuring eight, Maltese officials said. Twenty-one other survivors were taken to a migrant detention...
WASHINGTON (AP): The United States and the European Union (EU) are piling new sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week in...
An Ohio mother who left her 16-month-old daughter home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation pleaded guilty on Thursday to aggravated murder. Kristel Candelario, 32, also pleaded guilty to child endangerment as part...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Justice Department announced a series of arrests and indictments Thursday against Russian businessmen and their facilitators in five separate federal cases that span New York, Florida, Georgia and the District of Columbia. The...
GHAZNI (AP): Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country’s southeast, where relatives of the victims of stabbing deaths fired guns at two convicted men while thousands of people watched....
GEORGETOWN (AP): The parents of two teenagers who survived a fire that killed 20 people at a high school dormitory for Indigenous girls last year have sued the government, accusing authorities of negligence. The lawsuit is seeking more than $50,000...
LA PARAGUA (AP): Families and friends began burying loves ones on Thursday who were among at least 16 people killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in a remote area of central Venezuela. The mournful tributes come as demands...
MOSCOW (AP): Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday took a co-pilot’s seat in a nuclear-capable strategic bomber on a flight that appeared aimed at bolstering his image ahead of next month’s election he’s all but certain to win. Putin’s 30-...
NEW YORK (CMC): The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organisation that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York State, has denounced a proposed anti-immigrant executive order...
ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A black high school student's monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his locs hairstyle does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination, a...
ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A trial began Thursday to determine if a Texas school district can continue to punish a black high school student for refusing to change his hairstyle that he and his family say is protected by a new state law...
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — The lush valley enveloping Medellin was once the heart of a brutal war involving the Colombian government, drug cartels, and a smattering of other armed groups. But a sharp dip in violence in the country...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump could be at risk of losing some of his prized properties if he can't pay his staggering New York civil fraud penalty. With interest, he owes the state nearly $454 million — and the amount is going...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Lawyers representing Martine Moïse are questioning the motive behind the decision of an investigative judge, who said he found sufficient evidence linking her and 49 other people to the July 2021 assassination of her husband,...
CASTRIES (CMC): Guyana’s President Dr Irfaan Ali Wednesday urged regional countries to get involved in the integration of the economic expansion of his country, saying that is a “conversation we are willing to have”. Ali, who became the first...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): A high court judge has ordered the Commissioner of Prisons, Deopersad Ramoutar, to promote a prison officer, after declaring unconstitutional, an internal prison service policy which prevented Muslim officers from wearing...
BACOLOD (AP): A farm truck carrying villagers drove off a cliff in the central Philippines on Wednesday in an accident that left at least 14 passengers dead, police said. Three other people on the truck, including the driver, were seriously injured...
PHNOM PENH (AP): Six months after becoming Cambodia’s new prime minister, the eldest son of the country’s long-serving autocratic leader on Wednesday won approval from lawmakers to have his youngest brother take the post of deputy premier. The...
