NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rwanda announced Thursday that it will allow Africans to travel visa-free to the country, becoming the latest nation on the continent to announce such a measure aimed at boosting free movement of people and trade...
SAN JUAN (AP): The governor of the US Virgin Islands announced Wednesday that he declared a state of emergency after officials revealed last week that tap water in St Croix contains lead and copper and warned people not to consume it. The...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he is sending the armed forces to boost security at some of the country’s most important airports, ports and international borders as part of a renewed effort to...
CHICAGO (AP): Using sidewalks as exam rooms and heavy, red duffle bags as medical supply closets, volunteer medics spend their Saturdays caring for the growing number of migrants arriving in Chicago without a place to live. Mostly students in...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) Vladimir Putin is not quite the man he used to be; more than a decade has passed since the Russian president engaged in public stunts to boast of his vigour by hugging a polar bear or riding a horse barechested in the...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government said Thursday that the guerrilla group National Liberation Army, known as ELN, was responsible for the weekend kidnapping of the father of Liverpool and Colombian national football team...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft will pay a combined US$328 million to settle wage theft claims in New York, Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday. James said the settlements resolve investigations into the...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he is sending the armed forces to boost security at some of the country's most important airports, ports, and international borders as...
Taipei (AP): Taiwan said on Wednesday that China sent 43 military aircraft and seven ships near the self-ruled island, the latest sign that Beijing plans no let-up in its campaign of harassment, threats and intimidation. Taiwan’s defence ministry...
LA PAZ (AP): Bolivia’s government severed diplomatic relations with Israel, accusing it of carrying out “crimes against humanity” in Gaza, and Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors to Israel as they criticised the Israeli military offensive...
Nairobi (AP:) King Charles III visited a war cemetery in Kenya on Wednesday, laying a wreath in honour of Kenyans who fought alongside the British in the two world wars, a day after the monarch expressed “greatest sorrow and the deepest regret” for...
TRENTON, NJ (AP) — New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy tapped into a taxpayer-financed expense account for nearly $12,000 at MetLife Stadium, including almost $1,000 for a Taylor Swift concert in 2018. Murphy has asked the Democratic State...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — King Charles III has expressed “greatest sorrow and the deepest regret” for the “abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence” committed against Kenyans as they sought independence...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations body formed to promote respect for and protect people of African descent around the world says in its first report that they continue “to be victims of systemic racial discrimination ...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — A record 6.9 million people have been displaced by conflict across Congo, the United Nations migration agency said, making it one of the world's largest displacement and humanitarian crises. The decadeslong conflict...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): A magistrate court will decide decide on December 13, whether school teacher, Adriana King, should be made to answer a charge brought against her in 2021, alleging that she blocked Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves from...
ASHKELON (AP): The soldiers guarding Avi Chivivian’s organic vegetable farm in southern Israel must first scour every corner of his fields for militants before they give him the all clear: He has six hours to work. It’s potato planting season...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and...
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — About 5,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti set out on foot from Mexico's southern border Monday, walking north toward the United States. The migrants complained that processing for...
MOSCOW (AP): Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and rushed onto the landing field, chanting anti-Semitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, Russian news...
BEIJING (AP): China on Monday fêted two American veterans of World War II as Washington and Beijing look to past collaboration for inspiration on improving today’s strained ties. Mel McMullen, who is in his late 90s, and Harry Moyer, who turned...
DHAKA (AP): Bangladesh’s High Court on Monday commuted the death sentences of seven Islamic militants to life in prison for their role in a 2016 attack on a café in the capital, Dhaka, that killed 20 people, mostly foreigners. A special anti-...
HONG KONG (AP): Four former student leaders from the University of Hong Kong were sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for inciting people to wound others through their praise of a man who stabbed a police officer before killing himself in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank reported on Monday that oil prices could be pushed into “uncharted waters” if the violence between Israel and Hamas widens, which could result in increased food prices worldwide. The...
BEIJING (AP): China’s foreign minister considers that the road to an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden would not be “smooth sailing” and that both sides must work together to achieve results, the foreign...
