PANAMA CITY (AP) — The Panama Canal announced Saturday it will reduce the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day, from 32 in August, due to a drought that has reduced the supply of fresh water needed to operate the...
KARACHI, Pakistan (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...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's leader increased the wages of some government workers in last-minute efforts to appease labour unions whose planned strike this week could shut down government offices in all sectors of Africa...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Five people were killed and five were seriously injured after a truck overturned in central Illinois, causing a toxic substance to leak from its cargo and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of area residents,...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Policemen shoved and wrestled with justices of Guatemala's top electoral tribunal Saturday, as prosecutors sought to seize the tally sheets of votes from the August presidential elections. There were harrowing scenes...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City began drying out Saturday after being soaked by one of its wettest days in decades, as city dwellers dried out basements and traffic resumed on highways, railways, and airports that were temporarily shuttered by...
NEW YORK (AP) — Password-sharing crackdowns are becoming more and more common in the streaming world today. And Disney Plus is following suit. In an email sent to the users in Canada earlier this week, Disney announced restrictions...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 12:10 PM
LONDON (AP) — A bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren overturned on a highway near the English city of Liverpool on Friday, killing the driver and a 14-year-old girl, police said. The bus was transporting students from Calday Grange Grammar...
PARIS (AP) — France's highest administrative authority held a landmark hearing Friday over accusations of systemic discrimination in identity checks by French police. Victims are not seeking money, but a ruling to force deep...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 12:07 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexico’s president on Friday slammed US aid for Ukraine and economic sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba and other nations as the first of two high-level US-Mexico meetings got under way in Washington. President Andrés Manuel López...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 12:07 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP): The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. Latin American feminists have spent decades fighting to roll back...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2023 | 12:07 AM
BOSTON (AP): A California man has pleaded guilty to arranging hundreds of sham marriages in an effort to circumvent immigration laws, federal prosecutors said. Marcialito Biol Benitez, a 49-year-old Philippine national living in Los Angeles,...
As the number of migrants coming to the United States' southern border is climbing, the Biden administration aims to admit more refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next year. The White House Friday released the...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Friday it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation days before a new state law goes into effect removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims and allowing victims...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down...
WASHINGTON (AP) — US Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the "Year of the Woman" and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics,...
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding nearly 70 others,...
BAGHDAD (AP): Iraq’s prime minister on Thursday visited injured patients and the families of victims in northern Iraq days after a deadly wedding fire killed around 100 people, as two more people died from their injuries and additional remains were...
BERLIN (AP): Dozens of people from around the world lined up on a sunny morning this week in front of a former mental health hospital in Berlin to apply for asylum in Germany. There were two older women from Moldova. A young man from Somalia sat...
LONDON (AP): Six female migrants trapped inside a refrigerated food truck were rescued by French police after one of the women made a distress call to a reporter, the BBC reported Thursday. The women – four Vietnamese and two Iraqis – hid for hours...
BOSTON (AP) — A California man has pleaded guilty to arranging hundreds of sham marriages in an effort to circumvent immigration laws, federal prosecutors said. Marcialito Biol Benitez, a 49-year-old Philippine national living in Los Angeles...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Chinese-owned app TikTok on Thursday said it regretted the Indonesian government's decision to ban e-commerce transactions on social media platforms and particularly the impact it would have on the millions of...
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Rina formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said, as forecasters continued to monitor Tropical Storm Philippe which was also at sea. Rina had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2023 | 12:17 PM
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty for his role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt from Mexico, federal...
LONDON (AP) — Scottish authorities on Wednesday approved a 2.3 million-pound drug consumption room, the first government-backed place in the United Kingdom where users can take illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin under the supervision of...
