WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on notice, warning them that if the price of certain drugs is too high, the government might cancel their patent protection and allow rivals to make...
MIAMI (AP): Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro who worked with the CIA against their communist government, has died in Miami at 90. Florida had been her home since shortly after fleeing the island nearly 60 years ago....
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday granted a pregnant woman permission to obtain an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to the state's ban that took effect after Roe v Wade was overturned last year. It was unclear how...
LAS VEGAS (AP) —The gunman in Wednesday's shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at the school, a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation told...
SAN JUAN (AP): Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from Venezuela, which has ordered its state-owned companies to explore and exploit oil and...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Wednesday said that it has initiated a search-and-rescue operation to locate a missing helicopter carrying three crew members and four passengers. In a brief statement, the GDF said that the...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The Caribbean continued to be rattled by earthquakes in recent days with the latest occurring on Wednesday with a 4.4 magnitude tremor affecting at least three islands in the region. The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the...
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman sued the hip-hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs on Wednesday, claiming he and two other men raped her 20 years ago in a New York City recording studio when she was 17. The woman, whose name wasn't disclosed...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison Wednesday on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release. Fujimori, 85, was serving a 25-year...
LAS VEGAS (AP) —Police said a suspect was found dead Wednesday after officers responded to an active shooter and reports of multiple victims at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Las Vegas sheriff later said there was no further threat...
LONDON (AP) — Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged Wednesday that his government was too slow to grasp the extent of the COVID-19 crisis, but skirted questions about whether his indecisiveness...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A stampede at a government-organised job fair involving hundreds of young people in Zimbabwe desperate for work left some limping and others screaming in pain after being stomped on or beaten by security...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An influencer who staged a California plane crash to make a YouTube video of himself parachuting to safety was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for obstructing the investigation by destroying the wreckage,...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The interior ministers of Britain and Rwanda signed a treaty on Tuesday that aims to revive a plan to send asylum-seekers to the East African country that had been blocked by United Kingdom courts. British Home...
DEIR AL-BALAH (AP): Israel said Tuesday that its troops had entered Gaza’s second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians, including children, in a bloody...
ABUJA (AP): At least 85 civilians were killed when an army drone attack erroneously targeted a religious gathering in northwest Nigeria, officials confirmed Tuesday, as the president ordered a probe into the latest in a series of such deadly...
SAN JUAN (AP): A female tourist from Boston was killed Monday by a shark while paddleboarding in The Bahamas, police told reporters. The victim, who was not identified, was attacked less than a mile off the western end of New Providence island,...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Bahamas has recorded a “remarkable” milestone of welcoming eight million visitors, with Prime Minister Phillip Davis saying that it is crucial to reflect on the broader economic significance of this achievement to the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Police say two of their colleagues were due to appear in court on Tuesday in connection with an $8 million (one Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents) robbery on November 29 this year. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) said that a “...
LIDECKO, Czech Republic (AP): In an eastern corner of the Czech Republic, St Nicholas leads a procession of followers dressed in grim reaper and devil costumes on a journey through the village of Lidecko. The old pre-Christmas tradition has...
NEW YORK (AP): The iconic Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center was lit by more than 50,000 multicoloured lights last week Wednesday night as crowds massed in New York City for the holiday tradition. The massive tree – a 12-ton, 80-foot-tall Norway...
NEW YORK (AP): Eddie Murphy has fond childhood memories of gathering with his family in Brooklyn and being wrapped in the wonder of the season as they watched classic holiday movies. Now, his Christmas wish is his new film, Candy Cane Lane, will...
BATU PALANO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia's Mount Marapi volcano found 11 more bodies of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption, raising the number of confirmed dead to 22,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Students around the world suffered historic setbacks in reading and math during the COVID-19 pandemic, with declines in test scores so widespread that the United States climbed in global rankings simply by falling...
LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Prince Harry on Tuesday challenged the British government's decision to strip him of his security detail after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the United...
