MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico's immigration agency has ordered the suspension of migrant deportations and transfers due to a lack of funds amid a record-setting year for migration through the country's territory. The...
LUSAKA (AP): Seven miners were confirmed dead and more than 20 others were missing and presumed dead after heavy rains caused landslides that buried them inside tunnels they had been digging illegally at a copper mine in Zambia, police and local...
CARACAS (AP): Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro got the victory he sought in a weekend referendum on whether to claim sovereignty over an oil-rich area of neighbouring Guyana. But lackluster turnout suggested that his government is losing...
SEOUL (AP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said it is a duty of women to halt a fall in the country’s births in order to strengthen national power, state media said Monday, as his government steps up the call for the people to have more...
MIAMI (AP): A former career American diplomat was charged on Monday with serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba, going back decades, in what prosecutors portrayed as one of the most brazen and long-running betrayals in the history of the US...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel renewed calls Monday for mass evacuations from the southern town of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in recent weeks, as the military widened its ground...
MIAMI (AP) — A former American diplomat who served as US ambassador to Bolivia has been charged with serving as a covert agent for Cuba's intelligence services dating back decades, the Justice Department said Monday. Newly unsealed court...
TOKYO (AP) — US and Japanese divers have discovered wreckage and the remains of five crew members from a US Air Force Osprey aircraft that crashed last week off southwestern Japan, the Air Force announced Monday. The CV-22 Osprey carrying...
Paris (AP): A bloodstain by a bridge over the Seine river was the only remaining sign on Sunday of a fatal knife attack 12 hours earlier on a German tourist, allegedly carried out by a young man under watch for suspected Islamic radicalisation. The...
Manila (AP): The Philippine president has blamed “foreign terrorists” for a bomb blast that killed four people on Sunday, wounded dozens of other Catholic worshippers in the south and sparked a security alarm, including in the capital, Manila,...
Dubai (AP): With planet Earth running a fever, UN climate talks focused on Sunday on the contagious effects on human health. Under a brown haze over Dubai, the COP28 summit moved past two days of lofty rhetoric and calls for unity from top leaders...
BONDENI-JUA KALI, Kenya (AP) — As the sun rises in the Bondeni-Jua Kali neighbourhood on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi, dozens of women and men step out of their corrugated iron homes with yellow jerricans, skip over pools of...
DETROIT (AP) — BMW is recalling a small number of SUVs in the United States because the driver's air bag inflators can blow apart in a crash, hurling metal shrapnel and possibly injuring or killing people in the vehicles. US auto...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans are voting in a referendum Sunday to supposedly decide the future of a large swath of neighbouring Guyana that their government claims ownership of, arguing the territory was stolen when a north-south...
Former President Petro Poroshenko was denied permission to leave Ukraine for a planned meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Ukraine's security service said Saturday. Poroshenko announced Friday that he had been turned away at the...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal jury in Illinois ordered $17.7 million in damages — an amount tripled to more than $53 million under federal law — to several food manufacturing companies who had sued major egg producers over a...
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — Torrential rain triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia's Sumatra island, leaving at least 12 people missing, officials said Saturday. Tonnes of mud, rocks and trees rolled down from a mountain late...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday night off the coast of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and Philippine authorities issued a tsunami warning. The quake struck at 10...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York could soon start to get more recreational marijuana dispensaries after a judge on Friday approved legal settlements to end lawsuits that halted the state's legal cannabis licensing program. The settlements...
KHAN YOUNIS, (AP): Israel’s war with Hamas erupted again Friday, as airstrikes hit houses and buildings in the Gaza Strip minutes after a weeklong truce expired. Health authorities in the besieged territory reported dozens of Palestinians killed...
THE HAGUE, (AP): THE UNITED Nations’ top court on Friday ordered Venezuela not to take any action that would alter Guyana’s control over a disputed territory, but did not specifically ban Venezuela from holding its planned referendum Sunday on the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): The authorities in Haiti questioned former rebel leader Guy Philippe on Friday at a police station where he remained held a day after The United States repatriated him to Haiti, his lawyer said. Philippe is a convicted money...
NAIROBI (AP): The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for the illegal distribution of films and operating a film studio without licences. The senior magistrate in the city of Malindi, Olga Onalo, handed...
NEW YORK (AP) — Flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections that can hit children and older people hard may be peaking, US health officials said Friday. COVID-19, though, continues to cause the most hospitalisations and deaths among...
An incarcerated former gang member and FBI informant was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbing last week of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at a federal prison in Arizona. John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times at the...
