SEOUL (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries,...
DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge is siding with the Biden administration and blocking JetBlue Airways from buying Spirit Airlines, saying the $3.8 billion deal would reduce competition. The Justice Department sued to block the merger, saying it...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered that 95 people from a doomsday cult be charged with murder, cruelty, child torture, and other crimes in the deaths of 429 people believed to be members of the...
As communities nationwide celebrated the Rev Martin Luther King Jr (MLK) holiday last weekend, with events ranging from parades to prayer services, some people are taking a cue from the slain civil rights icon’s history of protest to demonstrate...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP): Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease, the heads of three major UN agencies warned Monday, as authorities in the enclave reported that the death toll in the...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Nicaragua’s government released a prominent Catholic bishop and 18 other clergy members imprisoned in a crackdown by President Daniel Ortega and handed them over to Vatican authorities who welcomed them in Rome. Bishop Rolando...
PHNOM PENH (AP): A court in Cambodia on Monday convicted four land rights activists of plotting to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions and gave them five-year suspended prison terms. The four – Theng Savoeun,...
LONDON (AP) — More executives are feeling better about the global economy, but a growing number don't think their companies will survive the coming decade without a major overhaul because of pressure from climate change and ...
MIAMI (AP) — Eight months after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States, a couple in their 20s sat in an immigration court in Miami with their three young children. Through an interpreter, they asked a judge to give them more time to...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has defended his controversial decision to let priests bless same-sex couples but admitted that “solitude is a price you have to pay” when you make difficult decisions. Francis doubled down and...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland's president said the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature” after molten lava from a volcano in the island's southwest consumed several houses in the evacuated town of...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Houthi rebels fired a missile, striking a US-owned ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after they launched an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea,...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organisation Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire sent emergency vehicles to the complex Monday morning, when President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David. Fire engines and other emergency vehicles responded to a...
SAINT-PAUL, Réunion (AP) — A tropical cyclone hit the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean on Monday, bringing intense rains and powerful winds and leaving about a quarter of households without electricity and tens of thousands...
ST JOHNS, CMC Commissioner of Police Atlee Rodney said that there was an eight-per-cent increase in reported crimes in 2023. Speaking at a post-Cabinet press conference late last week, Rodney said 3,425 crimes were reported in 2023, up from 3,...
ROSEAU, CMC: Dominica Sunday reaffirmed “its support and commitment for the ‘One-China Policy’, as it reiterated the need for “the peaceful reunification” of China and Taiwan. In a statement in which it referred to Taiwan as “the province of...
BELMOPAN, CMC The government of Belize recently signed an agreement with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) for a BZ$800,000 technical assistance grant to finance its sustainable tourism development project. The funds,...
The Future of Commerce and Payments Innovation are among the nine thematic 'deep dive' content tracks that will be explored when financial technology (fintech) experts and enthusiasts gather in Barbados from January 24–26, at the Sam Lord’s Castle...
TOKYO (AP): Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he was “speechless” by the severity and immense destruction of the disaster zone he saw during the helicopter ride on his first visit to the country’s north-central region of Noto since the...
TAIPEI (AP): A war of words erupted the day after Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections, with Taiwan on Sunday accusing China of making “fallacious comments” and China criticising the US for congratulating the winner. The verbal...
COPENHAGEN (AP): Denmark’s prime minister proclaimed Frederik X as king on Sunday after his mother Queen Margrethe II formally signed her abdication, with massive crowds turning out to rejoice in the throne passing from a beloved monarch to her...
The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary. But scientists worry that what’s behind those numbers could be even worse. The Associated Press asked more than three...
LONDON (AP): The attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have rerouted trade that normally flows through the crucial corridor for consumer goods and energy supplies, a shift that’s delaying shipments and...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP): Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month for the killings of 15 political opponents, has vanished after not turning himself in to authorities on Friday as planned. His...
