MADRID (AP): Veteran Spanish right-wing politician Alejandro Vidal-Quadras was shot in the face in broad daylight on a central Madrid street on Thursday, although his life wasn’t in danger, according to the hospital where he was rushed for...
JERUSALEM (AP): Fistfights break out in bread lines. Residents wait hours for a gallon of brackish water that makes them sick. Scabies, diarrhea and respiratory infections rip through overcrowded shelters. And some families have to choose who eats...
NEW YORK (CMC): Haitian-American chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, New York State Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, has congratulated the projected election winners across Brooklyn and New York City in Tuesday’s general elections. “...
NAIROBI (AP): Kenya’s government said Thursday that its police officers will not be deployed to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the UN Security Council to give the eastern African...
TORTOLA (CMC): The owner of a local shipping company, EZ Shipping, Clyde Chalwell, has submitted a formal complaint to the UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs concerning Governor John Rankin. EZ Shipping is the...
SAN JUAN (AP): Puerto Rico health officials on Thursday declared an influenza epidemic in the US territory. At least 25,900 cases have been reported since July, with 42 deaths and more than 900 hospitalisations on the island of 3.2 million people,...
(AP): An Australian court will consider overturning a woman’s convictions for killing her four children, a government inquiry reported on Wednesday, months after she was pardoned for the crimes due to new evidence that the siblings had died of...
AP: This October was the hottest on record globally, 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average for the month – and the fifth straight month with such a mark in what will now almost certainly be the warmest...
TOKYO (AP): Top diplomats from the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrial democracies announced a unified stance on the Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday after intensive meetings in Tokyo, condemning Hamas, supporting Israel’s right to self-defence...
MEXICO CITY (AP): About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti on Wednesday blocked traffic on one of Mexico’s main southern highways to demand transit or exit visas to reach the US border. The caravan of migrants set out on...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) — The owner of a Colorado funeral home and his wife were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that...
TOKYO (AP): The Unification Church’s Japanese branch announced plans Tuesday to set aside a fund up to 10 billion yen (US$67 million) to cover possible compensation for those seeking damages they say were caused by the group’s manipulative...
DHAKA (AP): The authorities in Bangladesh announced a new salary structure on Tuesday for protesting garment factory workers with a 56 per cent increase in the monthly minimum wage to $113 from the previous $75, a decision rejected by some workers...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP): Israel said on Tuesday that its ground forces were battling Hamas fighters deep inside Gaza’s largest city, signalling a major new stage in the month-old conflict, and its leaders foresee controlling the enclave’s...
MEXICO CITY (AP): The Zapatista indigenous rebel movement in southern Mexico said in a statement posted Monday it is dissolving the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years following the group’s 1994 armed uprising. The Zapatistas led a...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): A High Court judge Monday sentenced a St Vincent and the Grenadines national to 38 years in prison after he was found guilty of the murder of his Cuban-born wife, Arianna Taylor-Israel, outside a school building in the presence of...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): At least seven suspected kidnappers were shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire with members of the Haitian National Police (PNH) after they abducted a 60-year-old person at Delmas 33, near the citrons market on Monday...
NASSAU (CMC): A government legislator has been released on US$9,000 bail and will return to court on November 16 after he pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, assault and threatening to kill a woman earlier this year. Kirk Cornish, 48, denied...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment on Tuesday that ensures access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, the latest victory for abortion rights supporters since the US Supreme Court...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man with a rifle was arrested in a park near the US Capitol on Tuesday, police said. Police confronted the 21-year-old man from Atlanta after someone saw him with the gun in a park near Senate office buildings and told an...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Guyana Monday reiterated its objections to claims by Venezuela to establishing a Venezuelan state of Guyana Essequibo and an accelerated plan for giving Venezuelan citizenship and identity cards to the Guyanese population,...
SAN SALVADOR (AP): El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Friday ruled President Nayib Bukele can run for re-election next year, even though the country’s Constitution technically prohibits it. The decision comes one week after the popular...
TEGUCIGALPA, (AP): Honduras on Friday became the latest Latin American country to recall its ambassador to Israel for consultations as it condemned what it called genocide and other serious violations of international law in the Gaza Strip. The...
LONDON (AP): Four men were charged on Monday with the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. The toilet, valued at £4.8 million (US$5.95 million...
KHAN YOUNIS (AP): The Israeli army severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with airstrikes on Monday, preparing for an expected push by ground forces into the dense confines of Gaza City and an even bloodier...
