GENEVA (AP) — The head of the UN health agency says holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday nearly 10,000 deaths...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A major storm drenched the Northeast and slammed it with fierce winds, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands following a bout of violent weather that struck most of the US. The storm, which started Tuesday night and...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP): Armed men have broken into the set of a public television channel in Ecuador as it broadcast live and threatened people as the country reels from a series of attacks, after the government imposed a state of emergency in the...
PARIS (AP): France saw its youngest-ever prime minister and first openly gay one named on Tuesday as President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fresh start for the rest of his term amid growing political pressure from the far right. Gabriel Attal, 34, rose...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast Tuesday, and the president issued a decree declaring that the South American country had entered...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's parliament on Tuesday passed a landmark ban on the production and sales of dog meat, as public calls for a prohibition have grown sharply over concerns about animal rights and the country's...
PARIS (AP) — France saw its youngest-ever prime minister and first openly gay one named Tuesday as President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fresh start for the rest of his term amid growing political pressure from the far right. Gabriel...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A convicted leader of one of Ecuador's most powerful drug gangs has vanished from the prison where he was serving his sentence, and authorities were investigating whether he escaped like he did a decade ago from...
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world's agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. In one of the first of several teams of...
LONDON (AP) : England’s 1,000-year-old legal system – still steeped in traditions that include wearing wigs and robes – has taken a cautious step into the future by giving judges permission to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help produce...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A judge in Haiti has issued arrest warrants for more than 30 high-ranking officials accused of government corruption, including numerous former presidents and prime ministers. The warrants, issued Friday and leaked on social...
London: Industrial historian Norma Jacqueline Gregory was last month recognised by the University of Nottingham with an honorary doctorate of letters for her significant contributions to knowledge collating and preserving the heritage of former...
NEW DELHI (AP): India’s top court on Monday restored life sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago and asked the convicts to surrender to the authorities within two weeks. The Hindu men...
OTTAWA (CMC): Canada has suspended registrations for its humanitarian family programme of access to permanent residence for Haitians, Colombians and Venezuelans since December 30, 2023. The Canadian services concerned say they have received enough...
WASHINGTON, (CMC): The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says its has established specialised “juvenile dockets” in 49 immigration courts across the US for Caribbean and other migrant children and teenagers in...
BAGHDAD (AP) — A fire erupted Monday evening at a hospital in southern Iraq, sending smoke through a maternity ward and killing four babies who had been born prematurely, health officials said. The fire started at a pile of debris belonging...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president on Monday suspended the country's minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation over the use of a private bank account for ministry financial transactions in the government's...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a Texas hotel in Fort Worth on Monday littered downtown streets with large sections of a building and debris and injured multiple people, authorities said. Investigators believe the blast was caused...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A crash between a minibus transporting tourists and a truck in Brazil's northeastern Bahia state left 25 dead, the state's firefighters corps said Monday on its official Instagram account. The accident occurred...
PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned Monday following recent political turmoil over immigration, paving the way for President Emmanuel Macron to seek fresh momentum by appointing a new government in coming days. The...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on the "despicable" practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the "commercialisation" of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and...
NASSAU (CMC) The Bahamas has recorded seventh murder since the start of the new year and the Opposition is calling on the Phillip Davis government to call a meeting with gang leaders to avoid further bloodshed. Police said that the latest...
KINGSTOWN (CMC) The Public Service Union (PSU) has said the High Court will in May this year begin hearing a lawsuit challenging the appointments of Deborah Charles as clerk of the House of Assembly and Simone Williams-Huggins as her deputy....
BRIDGETOWN, (CMC) The main opposition Democratic Labour Party (DLP) says Prime Minister Mia Mottley in her Cabinet reshuffle on Saturday has failed to “address the real problem of an incompetent, bloated and expensive Cabinet that continues to...
GEORGETOWN (CMC) An international law expert suggests there as potential for Guyana and Venezuela to share or exploit the oil reserves if the international court of Justice rules that the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award that decided on the border...
