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Japan becomes the fifth country to reach the moon after spacecraft lands on the lunar surface

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:49 PM

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese spacecraft touched down on the moon early Saturday, making Japan the fifth country to reach the lunar surface. But officials said they still needed to analyse the pinpoint accuracy of the landing. Hitoshi Kuninaka,...

Boeing 747 cargo plane makes emergency landing shortly after takeoff at Miami airport

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 10:06 AM

MIAMI (AP) — A witness saw sparks shooting from a cargo plane as it made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport shortly after takeoff. The aircraft landed safely Thursday night "after experiencing an engine malfunction soon...

NATO to start biggest wargames in decades next week

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:06 AM

BRUSSELS (AP): NATO will launch next week its biggest military exercises in decades with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months-long wargames aimed at showing that the alliance can defend all of its territory up to its border with...

Ten-year-old bitten by shark

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:06 AM

NASSAU (CMC): The owner of Blue Adventures, a local company that operates a diving experience, has launched an investigation following an incident in which a 10-year-old boy from Maryland in the United States was attacked by a shark this week....

It’s ‘undemocratic and unacceptable’

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:05 AM

BUDAPEST (AP): Hungary’s government will not change policies the European Union believes infringe on LGBTQ+ rights and those of asylum seekers, even if doing so would unfreeze billions in funding the bloc has withheld from Budapest, a government...

Harsh rhetoric becomes central to South Africa’s genocide case

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:05 AM

TEL AVIV (AP): Fighting “human animals”. Making Gaza a “slaughterhouse”. “Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth”. Such inflammatory rhetoric is a key component of South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the UN world court,...

Haitian university officials face investigation over allegations of sexual abuse

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:05 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): Authorities in Haiti said they are investigating allegations of sexual abuse and abuse of authority and public property at a state university in the southern coastal city of Jacmel. A commission has been deployed to the University of...

Drop in Panama Canal traffic due to severe drought could cost up to $700 million

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 9:25 PM

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world's most important trade routes. The new cuts announced Wednesday by authorities in Panama...

Man arrested in series of New York City stabbings, police say

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 7:42 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have arrested a hospital worker from Queens after a series of recent stabbings, officials announced Thursday. NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban described the six attacks over the past 10 days, none...

Nation reels from cholera outbreak

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM

LUSAKA (AP): Zambia is reeling from a major cholera outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 10,000, leading authorities to order schools across the country to remain shut after the end-of-year holidays. A large soccer...

Woman who killed and stuffed her mother into a suitcase set to be sentenced

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM

CHICAGO (AP): An American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her own mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation in Bali is scheduled to be sentenced in a hearing under way Wednesday in Chicago. Federal prosecutors...

Hostages, residents set to receive medicines as Israel-Hamas war rages on

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM

RAFAH (AP): A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas was en route to Gaza on Wednesday after France and Qatar mediated the first agreement between Israel and the militant group since a week-long ceasefire in November. The...

Millions face hunger as El Niño compounds drought crisis

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:07 AM

HARARE (AP): The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that it was working with Zimbabwe’s government and aid agencies to provide food to 2.7 million rural people in the country as the El Niño weather phenomenon contributes to a drought...

Caribbean asylum seekers ‘out in the cold’

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM

NEW YORK (CMC): The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) says the city’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2025 has left Caribbean and other asylum seekers “out in the cold”. Many of the migrants and asylum seekers arriving in New York from the...

Police probe rape allegations against prominent attorney

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM

BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): Police Commissioner Chester Williams has confirmed that a prominent attorney and member of the main opposition United Democratic Party (UDP) is assisting police investigations following allegations made by two women. The...

Pilot programme launched offering 4-day workweek

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP): Private and public companies in the Dominican Republic are preparing for a voluntary, six-month pilot programme aimed at creating a four-day workweek, the first move of its kind for the Caribbean country. The...

Supporters of former rebel leader launch widespread protests

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Supporters of former rebel leader Guy Philippe have launched protests that have paralysed some cities across Haiti as they demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Demonstrators forced the closures of...

Prosecutor probing TV studio attack in Ecuador gunned down

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 9:18 PM

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A prosecutor investigating a dramatic attack on the set of a public television channel last week was shot dead Wednesday in Guayaquil, the most dangerous city in Ecuador. Prosecutor César Suá...

US woman gets 26 years in prison for helping to kill her mother and stuffing body in suitcase

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 7:33 PM

CHICAGO (AP) — An American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation in Bali was sentenced in Chicago Wednesday to 26 years in prison. Federal prosecutors had...

Zambia reels from a cholera outbreak with more than 400 dead and 10,000 cases

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 12:13 PM

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia is reeling from a major cholera outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 10,000, leading authorities to order schools across the country to remain shut after the end-of-year holidays....

Kate, the Princess of Wales, hospitalized for up to two weeks after undergoing abdominal surgery

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 10:11 AM

LONDON (AP) — The Princess of Wales has been hospitalised after undergoing planned abdominal surgery and will remain at The London Clinic for up to two weeks, Kensington Palace said Wednesday. The former Kate Middleton is expected to return...

Officials in Thailand say an explosion at a rural fireworks factory has killed at least 23 people

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 8:44 AM

BANGKOK (AP) — An explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand killed at least 23 people on Wednesday, according to provincial officials. The death toll was announced by authorities with Suphan Buri province, where the blast occurred...

Vivek Ramaswamy suspends presidential bid, endorses rival Donald Trump

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 12:13 AM

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy suspended his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday and endorsed former President Donald Trump after finishing a distant fourth in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses. Ramaswamy said he made the...

Iran attacks alleged militant bases in Pakistan

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 12:13 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP): Iran launched attacks on Tuesday in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip...

OECS leaders condemn moves by governor to acquire more power in BVI

Published:Wednesday | January 17, 2024 | 12:13 AM

CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC): The leaders of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) on Tuesday expressed their “alarming concern” at the current situation in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) where the governor of that British Overseas...

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