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Flash floods kill eight, 23 soldiers missing

Published:Thursday | October 5, 2023 | 12:07 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): A sudden heavy rainfall triggered flash floods Wednesday in northeastern India that swamped several towns, washed away a bridge and submerged army camps, killing eight civilians and leaving 23 soldiers missing, the army and news...

Bus with tourists plunges through overpass killing 21

Published:Thursday | October 5, 2023 | 12:07 AM

VENICE (AP): Residents of the Italian city of Venice stopped in dismay on Wednesday to pay respects to the 21 foreign tourists who were killed when an all-electric shuttle bus crashed through an overpass guard rail and fence, plunging more than 10...

WHO authorises second malaria vaccine, experts warn it’s not enough to stop disease spreading

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:46 PM

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization authorised a second malaria vaccine on Monday, a decision that could offer countries a cheaper and more readily available option than the world's first shot against the parasitic...

UK police open corporate manslaughter investigation into hospital where nurse killed 7 babies

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 9:14 AM

LONDON (AP) — British police have opened an investigation into corporate manslaughter at a northern England hospital after a neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others when she worked there...

House speaker ousted in dramatic vote

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in US history. The 216-210 vote, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives, throws the House and its Republican leadership into...

Homeless man arrested for rape and killing of five-year-old girl

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:09 AM

AP: A homeless Kansas man has been arrested for the rape and killing of a five-year-old girl, the authorities said on Tuesday. Officers responded just before 6 p.m. on Monday to a medical call at a Topeka gas station and found a fire crew...

Tropical Storm Philippe pelts northeast Caribbean

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:08 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): Tropical storm Philippe dropped heavy rains in the northeast Caribbean on Tuesday, forcing governments to close schools in the region as forecasters warned of flash flooding. The storm was located about 55 miles (90 kilometres)...

Kenya welcomes UN Security Council’s approval to send a Kenya-led mission to Haiti

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:08 AM

NAIROBI (AP): Kenya’s president on Tuesday welcomed the UN Security Council’s resolution to send a Kenya-led multinational armed force to Haiti to help combat violent gangs and pledged that it will “not fail the people of Haiti.” President William...

Jihadis kill 29 soldiers as attacks ramp up

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:08 AM

ABUJA, (AP): At least 29 Nigerien soldiers have been killed by jihadis near the country’s border with Mali, Niger’s junta said, as they struggle to end a spate of attacks. More than 100 extremists used homemade explosives to target the West...

Fire destroys historic Yacht Club

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:08 AM

ST JOHN’S (CMC): A fire swept has swept through the Yacht Club in English Harbour on the southeastern coast of Antigua, destroying several businesses and leaving more than 100 people unemployed. Prime Minister Gaston Browne in a message posted on...

India tells Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:08 AM

TORONTO (AP): India has told Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country, an official familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, ramping up a confrontation between the two countries over Canadian accusations that India may have been...

CARICOM lists major issues for talks with Canadian PM

Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2023 | 12:08 AM

ROSEAU (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are hoping to raise three main issues during their summit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa later this month, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said on Tuesday....

Country eases entry for Caribbean refugees

Published:Tuesday | October 3, 2023 | 12:08 AM

WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States has eased the entry of refugees from the Caribbean and Latin America, even as New York and other states vehemently protest the unprecedented number of Caribbean and other nationals seeking refugee and asylum...

A riled Trump sounds off outside fraud trial

Published:Tuesday | October 3, 2023 | 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Aggrieved and defiant, former President Donald Trump sat through hours of sometimes testy opening statements on Monday in a fraud lawsuit that could cost him control of Trump Tower and other prized properties. “Disgraceful trial,”...

Christian religious leaders demand international investigation into deadly wedding fire

Published:Tuesday | October 3, 2023 | 12:07 AM

BAGHDAD (AP): Christian religious leaders in northern Iraq called for an international investigation on Monday into a deadly wedding fire that killed more than 100 people last week and slammed the government’s probe, which had blamed the blaze on...

Work starts on turning Hitler’s birthplace into a police station

Published:Tuesday | October 3, 2023 | 12:07 AM

BRAUNAU AM INN, (AP): Work started on Monday on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station, a project meant to make it unattractive as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator. The...

Two still missing after nightclub fire kills 13

Published:Tuesday | October 3, 2023 | 12:07 AM

MADRID (AP): Authorities in the southern Spanish city of Murcia said Monday that two people believed to have been in a nightclub where 13 others died in a fire are still missing and that the club was operating without a permit. The town hall’s...

Attorney general issues apology for statement against presidential nominee

Published:Tuesday | October 3, 2023 | 12:06 AM

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): Attorney General Levi Peter has issued an apology to the unsuccessful opposition nominee for the post President of Dominica, saying that his reference to her as a “drumstick” had been taken out of context. During last week’...

Groups call for resignation of attorney general

Published:Monday | October 2, 2023 | 12:06 AM

ROSEAU (CMC): Attorney General Levi Peter is under increasing pressure to resign after he referred to the opposition nominee for the post of president of Dominica as “ a drumstick” . During last week’s parliamentary vote for the new president to...

IMF recommends operationalisation of LIAT

Published:Monday | October 2, 2023 | 12:06 AM

ST JOHN’S (CMC): The head of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation that ended a two-week visit here in Antigua and Barbuda is recommending that the authorities continue their efforts to strengthen the main engines of growth. Assistant to...

People face multiple challenges after fall of Nagorno-Karabakh

Published:Monday | October 2, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Tens of thousands of now-homeless people have streamed into Armenia from the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled by its emboldened adversary, Azerbaijan. Swarms of protesters are filling the streets of the Armenian capital of Yerevan...

Devastating monsoon season a sign of things to come

Published:Monday | October 2, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Bengaluru (AP): Sanjay Chauhan witnessed monsoon rains lash down over his home and farm in the Indian Himalayas this year with a magnitude and intensity he’s never experienced before. “Buildings have collapsed, roads are broken, there were so many...

Parents told to get children vaccinated against polio or face imprisonment

Published:Monday | October 2, 2023 | 12:06 AM

Karachi (AP): Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Last month, the government in Sindh introduced a bill that would imprison parents for up to one...

10 Cuban migrants killed, 17 seriously injured in freight truck crash in Mexico

Published:Sunday | October 1, 2023 | 7:12 PM

TAPACHULA, Chiapas (AP) — At least 10 Cuban migrants died and 17 others were seriously injured after a freight truck they were riding in crashed on a highway in southern Mexico near the border with Guatemala. The National Immigration...

At least 13 people killed in nightclub fire in Spain

Published:Sunday | October 1, 2023 | 4:54 PM

MADRID, Spain (AP) — A fire broke out in a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring several others, authorities said. The fire started around 6 a.m. in the popular Teatre nightclub and...

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