COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Almost everything that gets onto a commercial plane — fuel, checked-in baggage, cargo, and meals — is weighed. For passengers and their cabin bags, most airlines use average data. But, Finland's...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — A drug possession charge against South Florida rapper Kodak Black was dismissed Friday, two months after an arrest, though a drug trafficking case from 2022 remains ongoing. Broward County Circuit Judge Barbara...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Independent candidates backed by imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan were leading in Pakistan's national election results on Friday, a surprise given claims by his supporters and a national rights body that...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Seven royal artefacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana's ancient Asante kingdom and kept by a United States museum were returned and presented to the kingdom on Thursday, the latest of a...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): The main opposition New National Party (NNP) Monday said it would consider supporting legislation that would result in a change of the island’s oath of allegiance as Grenada moves towards celebrating its 50th...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States Department of State says that US and Cuban officials met on Wednesday to discuss law enforcement matters of bilateral interest under the US-Cuba Law Enforcement Dialogue. “The US-Cuba Law Enforcement Dialogue...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Brazilian police are investigating several top allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2022 election and searched their homes and offices Thursday. Bolsonaro was not himself...
ISLAMABAD (AP): Pakistanis braved cold winter weather and sporadic violence to vote for a new parliament Thursday, a day after twin bombings claimed at least 30 lives in the worst election-related violence ahead of the balloting. Tens of thousands...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry urged calm in a public address early Thursday following three days of violent protests that have paralysed the country demanding his resignation. The brief speech did little to appease...
ATHENS (AP): More than 15,000 protesters gathered in central Athens Thursday to oppose plans by Greece’s conservative government to allow private universities in the country starting next year. The mostly young demonstrators chanted “hands off...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A man awaiting extradition on a Massachusetts warrant alleging he killed his girlfriend and left her body in a car at a Boston airport escaped from police custody in Kenya, police said Thursday. Kevin Adam Kinyanjui...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday outlawed robocalls that contain voices generated by artificial intelligence, a decision that sends a clear message that exploiting the technology to scam people...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The new chief of the World Meteorological Organization said it looks to her that the rate of human-caused climate change is accelerating and that warming has triggered more Arctic cold outbreaks in North America and...
PANAMA CITY (AP): A former president convicted of money laundering defiantly proclaimed his intention on Saturday to run in Panama’s upcoming presidential election, despite facing a possible ban on seeking office. Ricardo Martinelli was officially...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): The US Virgin Islands on Monday finalised a long-awaited deal that will allow officials to build a public school on St John as part of a land swap that many opposed because it involves an island with historical ties to...
JERUSALEM (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected Hamas’ terms for a ceasefire and hostage-release agreement, vowing to continue the war until “absolute victory” and dismissing any arrangement that leaves the militant...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP): Bombs ripped through two separate political offices in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people, officials said, a day before the country was set to elect a new parliament. The attacks in Baluchistan...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CMC): Leader of the Progressive National Force (FNP), in the Dominican Republic, Vinicio Castillo Semán, has called on nationals who are in Haiti to leave the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell on Wednesday said Grenada will be supporting Ghana’s foreign affairs minister to become the next secretary general of the Commonwealth when the election is held in October. The Commonwealth is a...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Bombs ripped through two separate political offices in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people, officials said, the day before the country was set to elect a new parliament. The attacks in...
LONDON (AP) — Prince William returned to royal duties Wednesday for the first time since his father, King Charles III, announced his cancer diagnosis and his wife Kate was hospitalised for abdominal surgery. William performed an investiture...
ST GEORGE’S(CMC): Grenada is honouring prime ministers Sir Eric Gairy and Maurice Bishop, as well as successful Olympian, Kirani James, as the island continues with activities to celebrate its 50th anniversary of political independence from Britain...
WASHINGTON (AP): A federal appeals panel ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump can face trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting the former president’s claims that he is immune from prosecution. The...
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Sebastián Piñera, the two-time former president of Chile who faced social upheaval followed by a pandemic in his second term, died Tuesday in a helicopter crash. He was 74. Chile Interior...
PONTIAC, Michigan (AP) — A Michigan jury convicted a school shooter's mother of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in the killings of four students in 2021, making her the first parent in the US to be held responsible for a child carrying...
