UTTARKASHI, India (AP) — All 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in northern India for more than two weeks were pulled out on Tuesday, bringing a happy end to a drawn-out rescue mission that had gripped the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan High Court on Tuesday struck out key clauses of a contentious finance law that has been blamed for significantly raising taxes and the cost of living in East Africa's largest economy. High court judges...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): VICE-PRESIDENT BHARRAT Jagdeo has warned Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro not to ”ever question” the resolve of Guyana, reiterating that the population remains united in the face of claims by Caracas to the ownership of the...
PORT-OF-SPAIN: The Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance, including over 40 civil society organisations, grassroots leaders and activists, academics, creatives, the media and other non-state actors, is calling for urgent and accelerated...
FREETOWN (AP): Sierra Leone’s president said most of the leaders of weekend attacks on the nation’s main military barracks and prisons had been arrested, though the capital remained tense on Monday with many streets empty after a 24-hour curfew...
HOMESTEAD, Florida (AP): In New York, migrants at a city-run shelter grumble that relatives who settled before them refuse to offer a bed. In Chicago, a provider of mental health services to people in the country illegally pivoted to new...
BARCELONA (AP): The top Palestinian diplomat made a plea to extend the fragile ceasefire in Gaza that is hours from expiring at a meeting of European Union (EU) members and Middle Eastern and North African countries that focused on diplomatic...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan government on Monday urged people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to higher ground as heavy rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc across East Africa. At least 76 people have died and 40,000...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's government reached a deal with senior doctors in England that could potentially end a series of disruptive strikes, officials said Monday. The Department of Health and Social Care said it submitted a pay offer...
BEIJING (AP) — A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus, the country's health ministry said Sunday...
Georgetown (CMC) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed that it will establish an embassy in Guyana. The announcement was made late Friday by President Irfaan Ali as he spoke at the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber annual awards ceremony....
Mexico City (AP) Nicaragua’s increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition. But the “legitimate joy and pride...
Havanna (AP) Thousands of people led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel marched along Havana’s iconic boardwalk last Thursday in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people and demanding an end to the war between Israel and Hamas. Wearing a...
Ukraine overnight tried to attack Moscow with dozens of drones, Russian authorities said on Sunday, just a day after Ukrainian officials reported that Russia had launched its most intense drone attack on Kyiv since the beginning of its full-scale...
ATHENS (AP): A cargo ship sank off the Greek island of Lesbos in stormy seas early Sunday, leaving 13 crew members missing and one rescued, authorities said. The Raptor, registered in the Comoros, was on its way to Istanbul from Alexandria,...
VATICAN CITY (AP) : Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that he has a lung inflammation but will go later this week to Dubai to address the climate change conference. Francis skipped his weekly Sunday appearance at a window overlooking St Peter’s...
LONDON (AP) — Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called a "soul-shattering" novel about a woman's struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism and war...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third set of releases under a four-day truce that the US...
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone's president declared a nationwide curfew Sunday after gunmen attacked the military's main and largest barracks in the West African nation's capital and then overran detention centre's...
Abuja (AP) Three West African nations led by military juntas met this week to strengthen a newly formed alliance described by some analysts as an attempt to legitimise their military governments amid coup-related sanctions and strained relations...
London (AP) Ireland’s prime minister on Friday condemned anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through central Dublin after three young children were stabbed, saying the rioters simply wanted to cause chaos, not protect the country’s way of life....
King George Island (AP) UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited globally important Antarctica, where ice that’s been frozen for millions of years is melting due to human-caused climate- change, to send the message that “we absolutely need to...
RAFAH (AP): Hamas on Friday released 24 hostages who had been held captive in Gaza for weeks, including 13 Israelis, 10 people from Thailand and a Filipino citizen, according to Qatar and other officials, in the first stage in a swap for...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India restored electronic visa services for Canadian nationals, an Indian foreign ministry official said, two months after Canada alleged the South Asian nation was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist...
NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers hunting for big deals packed malls and stores on Black Friday as retailers stepped up discounts to entice customers who are sticking to stricter budgets this year and resisting impulse buying. Consumers are under...
