China's Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who wanted a shortcut. Authorities in China arrested two people for smashing a path through a section of...
GENEVA (AP) — Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Last month was...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
CAPE TOWN (AP): A retired Constitutional Court judge will lead an official inquiry into last week’s fire at a derelict building in downtown Johannesburg that left at least 76 people dead in one of South Africa’s worst tragedies, the government said...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
AP: Hong Kong’s top court ruled Tuesday that the government should provide a framework for recognising same-sex partnerships, in a landmark decision for the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The ruling did not grant full marriage rights to same-sex couples...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
TALLINN (AP): Belarus’ authoritarian president on Tuesday banned citizens from renewing their passports while staying abroad, which could force those who fled the country amid growing repression, to return to maintain their travel documents. An...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
GOODHUE, Minnesota (AP): As Goodhue Police Chief Josh Smith struggled this summer to fill vacancies in his small department, he warned the town’s City Council that unless pay and benefits improved, finding new officers would never happen. When...
Published:Wednesday | September 6, 2023 | 12:09 AM
NEW DELHI (AP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed Tuesday to extend their voluntary oil production cuts through the end of this year, trimming 1.3 million barrels of crude out of the global market and boosting energy prices....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's health episodes show "no evidence" of a stroke or seizure disorder, the Capitol physician said Tuesday, but his statement still left questions about the apparent...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus' authoritarian president on Tuesday banned citizens from renewing their passports while staying abroad, which could force those who fled the country amid growing repression to return to maintain their...
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish football federation fired women's national team coach Jorge Vilda on Tuesday, less than three weeks after his team won the Women's World Cup title and amid the controversy involving suspended federation...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa's economic progress and it's time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on polluters, Kenya's president declared Tuesday as...
LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland's top police officer resigned Monday following a series of controversies that plagued the police force, including what he described as an “industrial scale” data breach. The Northern Ireland...
AP: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that a landmark deal allowing Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea amid the war won’t be restored until the West meets Moscow’s demands on its own agricultural exports. Ukraine and...
GUAYAQUIL (AP): Men walk through a lush plantation between Ecuador ’s balmy Pacific coast and its majestic Andes, lopping hundreds of bunches of green bananas from groaning plants twice their height. Workers haul the bunches to an assembly line,...
NEW YORK (CMC): A Guyana national is among 38 non-citizens arrested in New York on Friday by the United States Customs and Immigration Enforcement agency (ICE) for criminal activity. A statement for the agency said the 55-year-old was “convicted...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): The attorney for a teen girl accused of setting fire to a secondary school dormitory in Mahdia, in which 20 students lost their lives, is calling for the commission of inquiry (COI) into the incident to be paused. In a letter to...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Haitian authorities have announced the temporary suspension of the licence of the Bethesta Church following last week’s protest march that left at least seven people dead and several others injured or kidnapped after gunmen...
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Men walk through a lush plantation between Ecuador's balmy Pacific coast and its majestic Andes, lopping hundreds of bunches of green bananas from groaning plants twice their height. Workers haul the bunches to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea won't be restored until the West meets its obligations to facilitate Russian agricultural exports. Putin made...
BUENOS AIRES (AP): If a baby was taken from their parents four decades ago during Argentina’s military dictatorship, what would that person look like today? Argentine publicist Santiago Barros has been trying to answer that question using...
NAIROBI (AP): Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa’s 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what’s to come. That can be both deadly and expensive, with damage running in the billions...
TEL AVIV (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African migrants. The...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country's African...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Five people charged in an Alabama riverfront brawl that drew national attention as white boaters fought with black riverboat crew members have pleaded not guilty to assault and disorderly conduct charges....
