BANGKOK (AP): Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the country’s most controversial politician for more than two decades, was released on parole early Sunday from a Bangkok hospital, where he spent six months serving time for...
Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported. The sudden death of Navalny, 47, was a crushing blow to many Russians,...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents file into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approach a massive book splayed open to reveal columns of names. Pinedo is hoping the list includes her...
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man who told his estranged wife in a note after he drowned their three young children “If I can't have them neither can you” was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's top court on Thursday struck down a controversial election funding system that allowed individuals and companies to send unlimited donations to political parties without the need to disclose donor identity, a...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge ordered Donald Trump and his companies on Friday to pay $355 million, finding they engaged in a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth. Trump won...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's top election authority on Thursday voided the government's postponement of a presidential election scheduled for February 25 and its rescheduling for December, ruling that the moves were...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) — Two people who had been shot were found dead after a shooting was reported in a dorm room at a college in Colorado Springs, putting the campus on a short lockdown Friday. Each person was shot at least once...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Five patients in intensive care died after their oxygen ran out in southern Gaza's main hospital that was stormed by Israeli troops, causing chaos for hundreds of staff and wounded people inside, health officials...
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia's prison...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): A fiery debate over public health and personal rights gripped Puerto Rico this week, intensifying Wednesday when legislators clashed with medical experts. The debate began earlier this month after the administrator of...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Court of Appeal has ordered the state to pay US$396,000 to a Cuban national, who had been falsely and unlawfully detained at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre in 2014. The Appeal Court increased by US$148, 000 the...
MOSCOW (AP): President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would prefer to see US President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced and predictable than Donald Trump – even though Moscow strongly disagrees with the current...
COPENHAGEN (AP): Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, on Thursday lost his second attempt to sue the state for what he claimed was a breach of his human rights....
NEW YORK (AP): Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25, a New York judge ruled Thursday, turning aside demands for a delay from the former president’s defence lawyers. The decision means...
GEORGETOWN, (CMC): The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is taking the government to court over its objection of the two-week running industrial/strike action and a series of reproach which the union now deems as discriminatory and a breach and...
GEORGE TOWN, (CMC): Justice Stanley John, a national of Trinidad and Tobago will be presiding over the trial of former premier and speaker of the house, McKeeva Bush. John was sworn in by Governor Jane Owen earlier this week, following a survey...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25, a New York judge ruled Thursday, turning aside demands for a delay from the former president's defence lawyers. The...
WARSAW (AP): Estonia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that NATO has about three or four years to strengthen its defences as Russian President Vladimir Putin ramps up his country’s “war machine”. Margus Tsahkna told a news conference during a visit...
SAN JUAN (AP): A stalled marijuana law in the US Virgin Islands got a big push on Tuesday after an advisory board approved a list of proposed rules and regulations that would govern the recreational use of cannabis in the territory. The board’s...
BASSETERRE (CMC): Police have charged a 35-year-old mother with two counts of murder after her two children were found dead last Friday. Police said that Colander Caines has been charged with the murders of her four-year-old daughter Calaysia...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): UNICEF says it has received reports that at least two children were fatally shot while fleeing violence in areas controlled by armed groups in downtown Port-au-Prince over the past weekend. It said many more children are...
ABU MUREIKHA (AP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Middle East’s first traditional stone-built Hindu temple on Wednesday, internationalising both his reelection campaign and his effort to push secular India into a Hindu state. The...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The United Nations chief warned Tuesday that climate chaos and food crises are increasing threats to global peace, telling a high-level UN meeting that climate disasters imperil food production and “empty bellies fuel unrest”....
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Police have charged the father of the one-year-old baby girl, whose throat was slit last Saturday, after he reportedly damaged the home where the alleged killer lives. The man, Lenroy Robertson, appeared in the Kingstown...
