LONDON (AP) — British Home Secretary James Cleverly was under fire Sunday for joking about date rape just hours after announcing plans to crack down on what he had dubbed a “perverse” offence. Cleverly, who oversees national...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document, and people are flooding the passport office this holiday season ahead of a price hike planned in the New Year. The...
Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particular between Israel and the Palestinians....
TACOMA (AP): A jury cleared three Washington state police officers of all criminal charges Thursday in the 2020 death of Manuel Ellis, a black man who was shocked, beaten and restrained face-down on a Tacoma sidewalk as he pleaded for breath. Two...
PRAGUE (AP): A student opened fire on Thursday at a university in Prague, killing at least 14 people, officials said, and injuring more than 20 in the Czech Republic’s worst mass shooting. The bloodshed took place in the philosophy department...
ORANJESTAD: The Netherlands has returned the remains of three original inhabitants of Statia that archaeologists found on the 8.1-square-mile island over 30 years ago. The remains –of an adult male and a female and her unborn child –are believed...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that reported cases of dengue globally increased tenfold over the last generation, with climate change and the growing spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes partly to blame for...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president said 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 American government to open talks with...
The United Nations Security Council passed a new resolution that calls for speeding up humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza, but without the original insistence on an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In an extraordinary pushback against Pope Francis, some Catholic bishops in Africa, Poland and elsewhere say they will not implement the new Vatican policy allowing blessings for same-sex couples. Others...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 20,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel's war against Hamas, health officials said Friday, the latest indication of the staggering cost of the conflict as Israel expands its ground offensive...
Gaza City (AP): The Israeli military on Wednesday said it had uncovered a major Hamas command centre in the heart of Gaza City, inflicting what it described as a serious blow to the Islamic militant group as pressure grows on Israel to scale back...
CAIRO (AP): Fighting between Sudan’s military and a notorious paramilitary group forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes in a province that had been a safe haven for families displaced by the devastating conflict in the northeastern African...
HOMESTEAD, Florida (AP): Snuggling on the sofa across from the Christmas tree, Sol proudly showed off the dog her foster parents gave her for earning all A’s even though she crossed the southern US border knowing very little English. “They helped...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has denied saying at a regional symposium on crime in the Caribbean that the primary motives for some murders is to allow a handful of young men to take care of their “high maintenance women”....
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy, days after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by two former election workers in Georgia who said his targeting of them led to death threats that made them...
PRAGUE (AP) — A shooting in downtown Prague killed several people and wounded dozens of others, and the person who opened fire is dead, Czech police said Thursday. Police gave no details about the victims or the circumstances of the gunfire...
PARAMARIBO (AP): Suriname’s former dictator Desi Bouterse was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for the murders of 15 opponents of the then-military regime in December 1982, ending a historic 16-year legal process. Bouterse, 78, was...
MIAMI (CMC): A former Haitian legislator has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the July 7, 2021 assassination of the country’s President Jovenel Moïse. The Miami federal court sentenced Joseph Joel John on Tuesday after he pleaded...
LONDON (AP): A boy and a girl were found guilty Wednesday of murdering a transgender teenager in northwest England earlier this year, in a frenzied knife attack that was described as “horrific” by police. Brianna Ghey, 16, was stabbed with a...
MIAMI (AP) — The United States freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the return of a fugitive defence contractor known as...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Wednesday said it had uncovered a major Hamas command centre in the heart of Gaza City, inflicting what it described as a serious blow to the Islamic militant group as pressure grows on Israel to scale...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas' top leader travelled to Cairo on Wednesday for talks on the war in Gaza, part of a flurry of diplomacy aimed at securing another cease-fire and hostage swap at a moment when the militant group is...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2023 | 12:10 AM
CARACAS (CMC): Venezuela has denounced the visit of Britain’s Under Secretary of State at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), David Rutley, to Guyana on Monday, insisting that the border dispute regarding the ownership of the...
Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2023 | 12:10 AM
NASSAU (CMC): Prime Minister Philip Davis says while he is concerned at the report of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) at the same time, “I don’t need a UN report to tell me some issues we have and we are addressing...
