Niamey (AP): West Africa’s regional bloc says heads of state will meet Thursday to discuss their next steps after Niger’s military junta defied the bloc’s deadline to reinstate the country’s ousted president while its mutinous soldiers closed the...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday sentenced seven defendants to as little as three years in prison for distributing methanol-tainted drinks that killed 44 people. The court in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city, convicted...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama's top immigration official lashed out at Colombia on Sunday, saying it is not helping to slow the record flow of migrants through the dangerous jungle of the Darien Gap. Immigration Service Director Samira...
LONDON (AP) — Hafsa Yusuf was supposed to graduate last week. The 21-year-old English literature major had spent 200 pounds on graduation gown rental, photography and tickets for her family to attend the ceremony. But just two weeks before...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Dickon Mitchell says his administration will be establishing a national security council that will be tasked with formulating strategies and policies to safeguard citizens. In a radio and television broadcast...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) CARICOM office officially opened in Barbados last week. The bank will support the implementation of the Partnership Agreement between Afreximbank and CARICOM member states, aimed at expanding Africa-...
TOKYO (AP) Hiroshima officials criticised growing support for nuclear weapons as a deterrent resulting from uneasiness over Russia’s war in Ukraine and tensions in the Koreas, commenting Sunday as the city remembered the atomic bombing of 78...
SEOUL (AP) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toured the country’s key weapons factories, including those producing artillery systems and launch vehicles for nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, and pledged to speed up efforts to advance his...
ATTOCK (AP) Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan awoke Sunday as an inmate in a high-security prison after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for corruption, a development that could end his future in politics. The court ruled...
ISTANBUL (AP) Dust and rubble fill the street as an excavator tears off chunks of concrete from an old apartment building. Bystanders and former residents watch from afar as construction equipment tears down the structure. Among the bystanders...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal's jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who has been on a hunger strike in prison to protest criminal charges against him, was hospitalised Sunday, his party said. Sonko was imprisoned last week in advance...
BEIJING (AP) — An earthquake in eastern China before dawn Sunday knocked down houses and injured at least 21 people, according to state media, but no deaths were reported. The magnitude 5.5 quake occurred near the city of Dezhou, about 300...
Two conservative groups are asking a federal court to block the Biden administration's plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for more than 800,000 borrowers. In a lawsuit filed Friday in Michigan, the groups argue that the administration...
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 60 others, officials said. Rescue operations were underway. Ten cars of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Striking Nigerian doctors on Saturday said they will embark on a nationwide protest, accusing the country's newly elected president of ignoring their demands for better pay, better work conditions, and...
The Justice Department has asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington to step in after he released a post online that appeared to promise revenge on anyone who goes after him....
A new law introduced in Illinois allows certain non-citizens to apply for police officer jobs. But, they must be legally authorised to both work and carry a firearm in the country. Immigration law experts say this includes lawful permanent...
JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family home destroyed by the deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria six months ago is in good health, loves her adopted family and likes to smile even to...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The political future of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was thrown into doubt Saturday when police arrested him at home after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for asset concealment. The prison...
Ljubljana (AP): Torrential rains and heavy floods ravaged Slovenia on Friday, killing at least three people, cutting off roads and bridges, and surging into buildings. The Slovenian environmental agency raised the weather alert to the highest level...
Paris (AP): Heavy rains have set back plans to test Paris’ readiness for swimmers to race in the River Seine at next year’s Summer Olympics, but Games organisers say the waterway will be better prepared in 2024. The Open Water Swimming World Cup...
Melekhovo (AP): A Russian court convicted imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism and sentenced him to 19 years in prison on Friday. Navalny is already serving a nine-year term on a variety of charges that he says were...
Banja Luka (AP): Serbia will ignore US sanctions recently imposed on top Bosnian Serb officials for undermining a 1995 peace agreement that ended a war that left more than 100,000 dead and millions homeless, the Serbian president said Friday....
The managers of the Panama Canal said they expect income from the waterway to drop after authorities were forced to limit the number of ships passing through each to 32 due to a lack of rainfall. Ricaurte Vásquez, the canal's...
DETROIT (AP) — An appeals court on Thursday overturned the drug conviction of a black man, saying his rights were violated by a Detroit federal judge who was upset over delays in the case and declared: “This guy looks like a criminal to...
