KATHMANDU (AP): Aid trickled in to villages Monday in Nepal’s northwest mountains flattened by a strong earthquake over the weekend as villagers searched through the rubble of their collapsed homes to salvage what was left of their belongings. The...
LONDON (AP) — Four men were charged Monday over 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 pounds ($5.95...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump began testifying Monday morning in his civil fraud trial, producing a spectacle of a former president and the leading Republican presidential candidate defending himself against allegations that he dramatically...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with intense airstrikes overnight into Monday, setting the stage for an expected push into the dense confines of Gaza...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Aid trickled in to villages Monday in Nepal's northwest mountains flattened by a strong earthquake over the weekend as villagers searched through the rubble of their collapsed homes to salvage what was left of...
Islamabad (AP): Afghan farmers have lost income of more than $1 billion from opium sales after the Taliban outlawed poppy cultivation, according to a report from the UN drugs agency published Sunday. Afghanistan was the world’s biggest opium...
Kathmandu (AP): Villagers in the mountains of northwest Nepal cremated the bodies of some who perished in an earthquake that shook the area Friday night. The strong quake killed 157 people and left thousands homeless. The 13 bodies were carried on...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen on motorcycles shot five men to death Saturday on the outskirts of the Mexican city of Puebla in an apparent dispute over stolen fuel, authorities said. The Puebla police department said the five victims appeared to...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A radio anchor was fatally shot by a man inside his southern Philippine station Sunday in a brazen attack that was witnessed by people watching the program live on Facebook. The gunman gained entry into the home-...
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Sunday he planned to bow out and hand over power to his deputy, Lawrence Wong, late next year, before the 2025 general election. Lee, 71, initially intended to...
BERLIN (AP) — The hostage situation at Hamburg Airport ended Sunday afternoon, around 18 hours after a man drove his vehicle through the gates of the airport with his 4-year-old daughter inside, authorities said. The man was arrested and the...
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Two people in Southern California have come down with dengue fever without travelling outside the United States, where the mosquito-borne illness is rare, health officials said. A Pasadena resident was confirmed to...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia can press forward with her $40 million lawsuit against a school system over claims of negligence by school administrators, a judge ruled Friday. The...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Survivors of a strong earthquake that shook Nepal 's northwest in the middle of the night described sudden shaking followed by houses collapsing and burying entire families, as the death toll rose to 157...
NASSAU (CMC): The Bahamas government says Christopher Davis, the son of the Prime Minister Phillip Davis, had received no funding from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who on Thursday was convicted by a federal jury in New York of fraud charges....
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted overwhelmingly to end the United States’ economic and trade embargo against Cuba that was first imposed in 1960. A total of 187 states voted for the resolution put forward...
KATHMANDU (AP): A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook northwestern Nepal and was felt in neighbouring India late Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The US Geological Survey said the 5.6 magnitude quake had a depth of 17. 9...
BEIRUT (AP): Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that his powerful militia is already engaged in unprecedented fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border and threatened a further escalation as Israel’s war with Hamas nears the one-month...
TEHRAN (AP): An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media said. A report by the IRAN newspaper on Wednesday said the woman worked as a trainer in a gym for females. It said her husband contacted police in 2022 when he...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) Friday acknowledged that information on some of its customers had been captured following a cyberattack last month. “During the past seven days, TSTT has been...
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP) —Officials in a suburban Chicago community have issued municipal citations to a local news reporter for what they say were persistent contacts with city officials seeking comment on treacherous fall flooding....
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California jury has awarded US$332 million to a man who sued chemical giant Monsanto Co. contending that his cancer was related to decades of using its Roundup weedkiller. A San Diego Superior Court jury awarded damages...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing US pressure for a "humanitarian pause" in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting...
NEW DELHI (AP) — New Delhi's government shut primary schools and banned polluting vehicles and construction work in an attempt to reduce the worst haze and smog of the season, which has posed respiratory problems for people and...
A jury in California ruled that a clothing company should pay more than US$1 million to four American Airlines flight attendants who blamed chemicals used in the production of their uniforms for causing a variety of ailments including rashes,...
