RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on Friday released a group of hostages held captive in Gaza for weeks, including 13 Israelis, according to officials and media reports, the first stage in a swap for Palestinians prisoners in Israel under a four...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa, Colombia and other countries that lost out in the global race for coronavirus vaccines are taking a more combative approach towards drugmakers and pushing back on policies that deny cheap treatment...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world. He will be...
BUENOS AIRES (AP): Argentina’s president-elect Javier Milei has called for the wholesale reinvention of the government but he has precious little time. And with less than three weeks until his December 10 inauguration, Milei has no executive...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): SEVERAL LEGISLATURES will be heading to frontier communities on the border with Venezuela to engage residents directly as part of a national effort to improve public relations in light of Venezuela’s actions. This was revealled...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): THE GRENADA government Wednesday hinted that it would not be rushed into signing the Samoa Agreement that will serve as an overarching legal framework for the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of...
Mogadishu (AP) First, some families fled drought and violence. Now, they say they have nowhere to hide from intense flooding as rainfall exacerbated by the weather phenomenon El Niño pummels large parts of Somalia. Among the worst hit towns is the...
Athens (AP) Greece’s main left-wing Opposition party, Syriza, suffered a damaging setback Thursday when nine lawmakers quit the party in protest against its newly elected leadership. Miami-based businessman Stefanos Kasselakis, 35, stunned party...
Rome (AP) Venice authorities on Thursday unveiled a pilot programme to charge day-trippers five euros (US$5.45) apiece to enter the fragile lagoon city on peak weekends next year in an effort to reduce crowds, encourage longer visits and improve...
LONDON (AP) — A crane operator played down tributes paid to him on Thursday after he lifted a man to safety from a burning high-rise building in England. Video from the scene in the town of Reading in southern England showed a man being...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a legal summons filed Wednesday. The three-page filing does not contain details of the alleged assault but names Adams, the...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children. The United Nations health agency...
THE HAGUE (AP): There’s one thing that’s certain for Dutch voters casting ballots Wednesday in a general election: Mark Rutte, the Netherlands’ longest-serving prime minister, is on the way out. All the rest is up in the air in a knife-edge vote....
NAIROBI (AP): Kenyan authorities issued a warning about the sale of counterfeit HIV-prevention drugs in the country, saying their “safety, quality and efficacy cannot be assured”. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board said the drugs were in two batches...
TEL AVIV (AP): A temporary ceasefire agreement to facilitate the release of dozens of people taken hostage during Hamas’ raid on Israel is expected to bring the first respite to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and a glimmer of hope to the families...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A truck overloaded with food items and more than 200 people crashed in north-central Nigeria's Niger state, killing 25 passengers and injuring dozens of others, authorities said Wednesday. The truck was on its way to...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan authorities issued a warning Wednesday about the sale of counterfeit HIV prevention drugs in the country, saying their “safety, quality and efficacy cannot be assured.” The Pharmacy and Poisons Board...
NIAGARA FALLS, NY (AP) — A border crossing between the US and Canada has been closed after a vehicle exploded at a checkpoint on a bridge near Niagara Falls. The FBI's field office in Buffalo said in a statement that it was investigating...
Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 11:58 AM
The late crush of holiday travellers is picking up steam, with about 2.7 million people expected to board flights on Wednesday and millions more planning to drive to Thanksgiving celebrations. Airline officials say they are confident they can...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Three people were killed and three were missing after a landslide barrelled down a heavily forested, rain-soaked mountainside and smashed into homes in a remote fishing community in southeast Alaska. The slide, ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day cease-fire in the war in Gaza — a breakthrough that will facilitate the release of dozens of hostages held by militants as well as Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, and bring a...
Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:10 AM
ABUJA (AP): Niger’s junta on Tuesday asked West Africa’s regional court to order the lifting of sanctions imposed on the country by its neighbours following a July coup in which the democratically elected president was deposed. “There is no sector...
Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:09 AM
JERUSALEM (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will continue its war against Hamas, even if a temporary ceasefire is reached with the Islamic militant group to release hostages. In comments Tuesday ahead of an expected Cabinet vote...
Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:09 AM
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Middle school student Jeanmaikol Castrillo can quickly point out Venezuela on a map and identify what’s around it – the Caribbean Sea and the countries of Colombia, Brazil and Guyana. But the map with which he is familiar...
Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:09 AM
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP): The number of people killed when an illegal gold mine collapsed in Suriname rose to 14 on Tuesday, with seven others missing in what is considered the South American country’s worst mining accident. Rescue crews combed...
