BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of union members and activists took to the streets of Argentina's capital Wednesday to protest a decree from President Javier Milei that imposes sweeping deregulation and austerity...
BOGOTÁ, (AP): The head of Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group said on Monday it would only abide by a recent agreement to suspend the kidnappings of civilians for ransom if the government keeps its promise to finance projects that could...
KINGSTOWN, (CMC): St Vincent and the Grenadines is hoping to join at least one other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country in abolishing preliminary inquiries as regional countries move to deal with a backlog of cases as well as the crime...
HAVANA, (CMC): Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has welcomed the release of Alex Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat who was arrested by the United States. On his X account, formerly Twitter, Rodriguez said that Saab was released as a result of...
NEW YORK (CMC): New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a multi-state coalition calling for expanded access to work authorisation for new Caribbean immigrants James is leading a coalition of 19 attorneys general calling on the United...
MIAMI (AP): Pedro Naranjo idolised his father growing up and followed him into the Venezuelan air force to fly helicopters. So deep was their bond that when the older Naranjo feared being jailed for plotting against Nicolás Maduro’s socialist...
DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. The 22-year-old had been hospitalised in Gaza for around a week, after her ankle was partially severed in an Israeli airstrike, when...
PARIS (AP): The Eiffel Tower was shut down to visitors on Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations, the day the Paris monument marks 100 years since the death of its creator, Gustave Eiffel. Tourists can still access the glass-...
PALU (AP): The death toll following the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island rose to 18 on Tuesday, as police ordered the plant to stop operations until an investigation is completed. The...
NEW YORK (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly blocked entrance roads to airports in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday, snarling traffic as US airlines contended with a rush of holiday travel. The demonstrations stopped cars on the...
LARGO, Florida (AP) — A Florida woman holding her 11-month-old son in a baby carrier was fatally shot by her 14-year-old brother while trying to defuse an argument over Christmas gifts he was having with a 15-year-old brother who also was...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The head of Colombia's largest remaining rebel group said on Monday it would only abide by a recent agreement to suspend the kidnappings of civilians for ransom if the government keeps its promise to finance...
Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2023 | 12:06 AM
LONDON (AP): For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading ‘Just Stop Oil’ off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison...
Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2023 | 12:06 AM
GEORGETOWN (CMC): An opposition legislator has described as “utterly unconstitutional, void and of no legal validity”, the move by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to serve a Guyana police-issued court summons to a United States political activist to...
Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2023 | 12:06 AM
MIAMI (AP): A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, which plunged the Caribbean nation into violence and political turmoil. Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, 45...
Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2023 | 12:06 AM
HAVANA (AP): The Cuban government said on Friday it will have to either increase prices for fuel and electricity, or reduce rations for basic supplies. President Miguel Díaz-Canel said such difficult measures were needed for difficult times, after...
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Parliament reported Tuesday it had suffered a cyberattack with hackers trying to get into its data and wipe them out, temporarily halting its work. A statement said Monday's cyberattack had not “...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The administration of Argentina's new President Javier Milei said on Tuesday that his government won't renew contracts for more than 5,000 employees hired this year before he took office. The...
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who left on a flight for the Christmas holiday to visit his grandmother in southwest Florida instead was put on the wrong plane and ended up 160 miles away in Orlando, Florida. When the grandmother,...
TOKYO (AP) — Daihatsu, a unit of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., has shut down production lines at all its four factories in Japan while transport ministry officials investigate improper tests for safety certifications. The shutdown as...
ABUJA (AP): France on Friday completed the withdrawal of its troops after they were asked to leave Niger by the country’s new junta, ending years of on-the-ground military support and raising concerns from analysts about a gap in the fight against...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will not immediately take up a plea by special counsel Jack Smith to rule on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for his actions to overturn the 2020 election results....
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s president said on Friday that he is willing to help out with a surge of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the United States, but he wants the US government to open talks with Cuba and send more...
DORA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman with two uteri and two cervixes has given birth to two babies after carrying one of them in each uterus. Kelsey Hatcher of Dora, about 28 miles (45.06 kilometres) northwest of Birmingham, gave birth to two...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have made it easier for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge their convictions, a measure that was favoured by...
