Mon | Jun 22, 2026

World News

Published:Tuesday | January 2, 2024 | 12:08 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Haiti marked the 220th anniversary of its political independence from France on Monday, with the international community expressing support for the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country as it moves to...

Published:Tuesday | January 2, 2024 | 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (CMC): A 36-year-old United States national has been sentenced to more than five years in jail for trafficking over 100 ‘ghost guns’ to the Dominican Republic, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, has...

Published:Tuesday | January 2, 2024 | 12:08 AM

SEOUL (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his military should “thoroughly annihilate” the United States and South Korea, if provoked, state media reported Monday after he vowed to boost national defence to cope with what he called an...

Published:Tuesday | January 2, 2024 | 12:05 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC): The Guyana government Friday said that it will seek to recruit 200 nurses from Cuba next year as the country moves to deal with a shortage of locally trained nurses. Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony, speaking at an end-...

Published:Monday | January 1, 2024 | 1:37 PM

A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and injuring a third was arrested Saturday in the United Kingdom, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. Kimberlee Singler's 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son...

Published:Monday | January 1, 2024 | 12:32 PM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two men were arrested in connection with the killing of Ugandan Olympic runner Benjamin Kiplagat, who was found fatally stabbed in a car in Kenya on New Year's Eve, police said Monday. A knife suspected of being...

Published:Monday | January 1, 2024 | 10:59 AM

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Thousands of Israeli soldiers are being shifted out of the Gaza Strip, the military said Monday, in the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began as forces continued to bear down on the main city in the...

Published:Monday | January 1, 2024 | 12:07 AM

The US military said on Sunday that its forces opened fire on Houthi rebels after they attacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea, killing several of them in an escalation of the maritime conflict linked to the war in Gaza. In a series of statements, the...

Published:Monday | January 1, 2024 | 12:07 AM

MOSCOW (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Russia’s “united society” in his prerecorded New Year’s address to the nation, the country’s state news agencies reported on Sunday. Putin addressed Russians in a video that ran under four...

Published:Monday | January 1, 2024 | 12:06 AM

A fake emergency call to police resulted in officers responding on Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, just a day after she removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 6:24 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and Venezuela announced Saturday that they have restarted repatriation flights of Venezuelan migrants in Mexico, the latest move by countries in the region to take on a flood of people travelling north to the United...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 6:07 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — A husband and wife and their two sons, ages 10 and 12, were found dead in a suburban New York home Saturday in what authorities described as a murder-suicide by a police sergeant. Police officials said Watson Morgan, a...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 4:13 PM

China will ease visa restrictions for people visiting from the United States, the country's latest effort to attract foreign travellers since reopening its borders earlier this year. Starting January 1, American tourists will no longer...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:39 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — The confetti has been tested for airiness. The giant numerals – 2 0 2 4 – are in place. And the luminous ball, bedazzled with 2,688 crystal triangles, is fixed to the pole from which it makes...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 9:53 AM

Sydney and Auckland have become the world's first major cities to ring in 2024, with more than a million revellers cheering spectacular fireworks displays that lit up the skies over Sydney Harbor and New Zealand's tallest structure, Sky...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:08 AM

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (AP): After the confetti is swept away and the empty champagne bottles recycled in Atlantic City, 2024 will bring numerous challenges and potential opportunities for the East Coast gambling resort. The most burning issue...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:07 AM

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP): Israeli officials are stepping up threats against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, warning that Israel is running out of patience as the two sides continue to trade fire along Israel’s volatile northern border. Benny...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:07 AM

SACRAMENTO, California (AP): Doctors in California who mail abortion pills to patients in other states will be protected from prosecution. Workers will receive more paid sick leave on the heels of a big year for labor. And companies can’t fire...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:07 AMWHAT’S THE LEGAL ISSUE? -

DENVER, Colorado (AP): First, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump wasn’t eligible to run for his old job in that state. Then, Maine’s Democratic secretary of state ruled the same for her state. Who’s next? Both...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:07 AM

PARIS (AP): Security will be tight across France on New Year’s Eve, with 90,000 law enforcement officers set to be deployed, domestic intelligence chief Céline Berthon said on Friday. Of those, 6,000 will be in Paris, where French Interior Minister...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:06 AM

AP: The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year’s Day, it will stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the US Census Bureau. The worldwide growth rate in the past year was just...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:06 AM

NEW YORK (AP): One person wanted to get past anger issues. Others sought to turn the page on medical bills, work stress, insecurities, taxes, regrets, bad habits, bad hair days, COVID-19, worrying about what other people think, and “all negativity...

Published:Sunday | December 31, 2023 | 12:06 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised what he called achievements and victories that strengthened national power and boosted the country’s prestige this year, as he opened a key political meeting to set new policy goals...

Published:Saturday | December 30, 2023 | 5:56 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted...

Published:Saturday | December 30, 2023 | 3:21 PM

LAS VEGAS (AP) — For better or for worse, a wave of couples saying “I do” in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve could set a record for the city's busiest wedding day ever. That's because 12/31/23 is known in the massive Las...

Pages

Subscribe to World News