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Haitians urged to be calm after Kenya court rules against deployment of troops

Published:Tuesday | January 30, 2024 | 12:08 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Haiti has urged its citizens “to remain calm and to support our security forces” as it responded to the ruling of the Kenya High Court last Friday against sending troops to the French-speaking CARICOM country. “Faced with...

ANC suspends Zuma for backing new party in elections

Published:Tuesday | January 30, 2024 | 12:08 AM

CAPE TOWN (AP): South Africa’s ruling party suspended former President Jacob Zuma on Monday after he gave his backing to a new political party for this year’s national elections. The decision by the African National Congress (ANC) is another sign...

Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million meant to buy arms for war with Russia

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 3:35 PM

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defence ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's security service reported. The...

China protesting interrogations and deportations of its students at US entry points

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 1:44 PM

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has protested to the United States over the treatment of Chinese arriving to study in America, saying some have been interrogated for hours, had their electronic devices checked and in some cases were...

Robitussin maker recalls several cough syrups due to possible high levels of yeast

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 10:18 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of Robitussin cough syrup is recalling several lots of products containing honey due to contamination that could pose a serious risk to people with weakened immune systems. Haleon's recall covers eight lots of...

Masked assailants attack Istanbul Roman Catholic Church, kill one

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 12:07 AM

ISTANBUL (AP): Two masked assailants attacked a Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass, killing one person, Turkish officials said. The armed assailants attacked the Santa Maria Church in the Sariyer district at 11:40 a.m. (0840...

Farmers aim to put Paris ‘under siege’ in tractor protest

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 12:06 AM

PARIS (AP): France’s interior ministry on Sunday ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as angry farmers threatened to head towards the capital, hours after climate activists hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona...

Most Americans feel they pay too much in taxes

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 12:06 AM

NEW YORK (AP): A majority of taxpayers feel they pay too much in taxes, with many saying that they receive poor value in return, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-...

Biden says US 'shall respond' after drone strike by Iran-backed group kills 3 US troops in Jordan

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2024 | 5:54 PM

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday that the US "shall respond" after three American troops were killed and dozens more were injured in an overnight drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border...

Climate activists throw soup at glass protecting Mona Lisa in Paris as farmers' protests continue

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2024 | 10:59 AM

PARIS (AP) — Two climate activists hurled soup Sunday at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system. This came amid protests by French farmers against several...

Netanyahu defiant after UN court ruling, deadly Gaza offensive continues

Published:Sunday | January 28, 2024 | 12:10 AM

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday pushed back after the International Court of Justice ruling to limit death and destruction in the military’s Gaza offensive, declaring that “we decide and act according...

Jamaica-born attorney seeking multi-million dollar settlement

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2024 | 12:06 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Convicted Jamaica-born King’s Counsel, Vincent Nelson, is seeking TT$96 million (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cent) in his civil claim for compensation for an alleged breach of an indemnity agreement to protect him from...

Constitutional court rejects several measures in controversial immigration law

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2024 | 12:06 AM

PARIS, France (AP): France’s Constitutional Council on Thursday rejected several measures in a divisive new immigration law that critics call inhumane, in a new blow to President Emmanuel Macron and his government. The council said in a statement...

Man who raped his captive daughter over 24 years can be moved to a regular prison

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2024 | 12:06 AM

KREMS, Austria (AP): An Austrian man who had kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison, a court ruled on Thursday. The...

High Court rules that deploying police officers to Haiti is unconstitutional

Published:Saturday | January 27, 2024 | 12:06 AM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): Kenya’s high court on Friday barred the UN-backed deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti to help the Caribbean country bring gang violence under control. High Court Judge Chacha Mwita said Kenya’s National Security...

Donald Trump must pay an additional $83.3 million to E Jean Carroll in defamation case, jury says

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 8:44 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury awarded $83.3 million to E Jean Carroll on Friday in a stinging and expensive rebuke to former President Donald Trump for his continued social media attacks against the longtime advice columnist over her claims that he...

ICJ stops short of ordering cease-fire in Gaza and demands Israel contain deaths

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 8:32 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' top court stopped short Friday of ordering a cease-fire in Gaza in a genocide case but demanded that Israel try to contain death and damage in its military offensive in the tiny...

Attorney charged with ‘large-scale’ immigration fraud scheme on Caribbean nationals

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (CMC): The Jamaican-American attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams and Michael Alfonso, the acting special agent in charge of the Newark Field Office of the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced...

Former premier returns to active politics

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:07 AM

BRADES (CMC): Former premier, Reuben Meade, insisting that he is not “the magician who alone can fix everything”, Thursday announced his return to active politics and will lead a new team into the next election, constitutionally due later this year...

Coast Guard rescues 33 migrants from sinking vessel off Haiti

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:07 AM

MIAMI (CMC): The United States Coast Guard says the crew of its Cutter Dependable rescued 33 Haitian migrants on Monday after their vessel began taking on water about six miles north of Cap-Haitien, Haiti. The US Coast Guard said that Coast Guard...

Mass graves still being found, almost 30 years after genocide

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:07 AM

KIGALI (AP): A Rwandan official said Thursday that the remains of 119 people believed to be victims of the 1994 genocide have been discovered in the country’s south, as authorities continue to find mass graves nearly three decades after the...

Remaining landslide victims found, bringing death toll to 44

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:07 AM

BEIJING (AP): The bodies of the remaining victims of a landslide in southwestern China were recovered Thursday, bringing the death toll to 44 after four days of searching through the rubble of dirt and crumbled homes, state media said. The final...

Kidnapped nuns, two others released

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:06 AM

PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): The Archbishop of Haiti, Max Leroy Mésidor, says the nuns who were kidnapped last week, along with two other people have been released. This was revealed late Wednesday in a statement from the archbishop. Last Friday, armed...

Thousands flock to recruitment centre for jobs in Israel despite war

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:06 AM

LUCKNOW (AP): Thousands of Indians flocked to a recruitment centre on Thursday for jobs that would take them to Israel despite the three-month Israeli-Hamas war that is devastating Gaza and threatening to ignite the wider Middle East. Many among...

Man fatally shoots three people before killing himself

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:06 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): A man in southwestern Puerto Rico fatally shot his former girlfriend and two members of her family before killing himself, police said Thursday. The incident occurred late on Wednesday in the coastal town of Yauco, where the bodies...

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