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Published:Saturday | November 18, 2023 | 12:06 AM

MANILA (AP): A powerful undersea earthquake shook the southern Philippines on Friday, causing ceilings in shopping malls to plunge to the ground as shoppers screamed. No tsunami warning was in effect. The Office of Civil Defence said it was...

Published:Saturday | November 18, 2023 | 12:06 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP): About 1.3 million Afghans are expected to return to their country of origin from Pakistan, the UN health agency warned, weeks after authorities began expelling foreigners living in the country illegally. Thursday’s warning by the...

Published:Saturday | November 18, 2023 | 12:06 AM

RAFAH (AP): The United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday, and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after Internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 10:07 PM

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 130 people have died in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia following heavy rains that triggered what aid agencies described as flooding seen only once every 100 years. Somalia bore the brunt of the flash floods...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 10:40 AM

DETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling nearly 250,000 vehicles in the US because bearings can fail, causing the engines to stall and increasing the risk of a crash. The recall covers certain 2018 and 2019 Honda Pilot SUVs and Odyssey minivans and...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 7:49 AM

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza on Friday and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after Internet and telephone services collapsed in the...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 12:08 AM

MADRID (AP): Spain’s acting Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was chosen by a majority of legislators to form a new government in a parliamentary vote Thursday. Sánchez was backed by 179 lawmakers in the 350-seat lower house of parliament....

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 12:08 AM

TALLINN, Estonia (AP): A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans and sentenced her to seven years in prison, Russian media reported. Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 12:08 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP): Fresh off his meeting with the leader of China, President Joe Biden addressed CEOs grappling with the risks to their businesses from world crises and spend time trying to persuade other Indo-Pacific leaders that the US is...

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 2:46 PM

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term communications blackout even as Israel signalled...

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 8:47 AM

Thousands of workers at more than 200 US Starbucks stores plan to walk off the job Thursday in what organisers say is the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionise the company's stores. The Workers United union chose Starbucks...

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 12:08 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): Venezuela’s vice president on Wednesday vowed that her country will press ahead with a referendum on the future of a large tract of mineral-rich territory that it claims in a long-running dispute with neighbouring...

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 12:07 AM

LONDON (AP): The British government said Wednesday it will still try to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda, despite the UK Supreme Court ruling that the contentious plan is unlawful. In a major blow to one of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak...

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 12:07 AM

BUENOS AIRES (AP): Batman and the Joker, a man decked out in a full-body lion costume, and another whose head and arms have been replaced by chainsaws. This isn’t Carnival or Comic-Con, but rather the outlandish campaign rally for Argentine...

Published:Thursday | November 16, 2023 | 12:07 AM

HAVANA (AP): Until recently, the space was the one-car garage of a private home in Cuba’s capital, Havana. Today, it is a well-stocked, if small, grocery store whose big board at the gate entices shoppers with such offerings as cooking oil, tomato...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 9:39 PM

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — High-risk migrants in Australia will face up to five years in prison for breaching their visa conditions under emergency legislation introduced in response to a High Court ruling that migrants can't be detained...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 7:09 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday in an effort to hold the soda-and-snack food giant partly responsible for litter that winds up in bodies of water supplying the city of Buffalo with drinking water. The lawsuit,...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 9:27 AM

HAVANA (AP) — Until recently, the space was the one-car garage of a private home in Cuba's capital, Havana. Today, it is a well-stocked, if small, grocery store whose big board at the gate entices shoppers with such offerings as cooking...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 8:07 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government's contentious plan to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda is illegal, striking a major blow to a key policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 12:09 AM

PARIS (AP): A Rwandan doctor who has been living in France for decades goes on trial Tuesday in Paris over his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in his home country. Sosthene Munyemana, 68, faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (CMC): Guyana Tuesday presented what it said is the evidence that Venezuela intends to gain ownership of the mineral and forest-rich county of Essequibo through a referendum on December 3. Attorney Paul Reichler outlined Georgetown’s...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 12:08 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher Tuesday vowed to deal with the “desperate brazen attacks by criminal elements” after a 28-year-old murder suspect was shot and killed a few minutes after being released from a...

Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2023 | 12:08 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexican authorities on Tuesday sent conflicting messages about the violent death of a leading LGBTQ+ figure after thousands marched Monday night demanding justice. Jesús Ociel Baena was found dead with around 20 wounds next to...

Published:Tuesday | November 14, 2023 | 9:23 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Illegal border crossings from Mexico fell 14% in October from a month earlier, United States authorities said Tuesday, ending a three-month streak of big increases. US officials highlighted the resumption of deportation...

Published:Tuesday | November 14, 2023 | 8:39 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Eric Adams declared that “we follow the law” but deflected key questions Tuesday about an FBI investigation into his 2021 campaign, while his lawyer said there were no signs that the inquiry was...

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