Niamey (AP) West African nations have announced travel and economic sanctions against Niger and have threatened to use force if the leaders of a coup don’t reinstate the democratically elected president within one week. The sanctions announced...
Beijing (AP) China imposed restrictions on Monday on exports of long-range civilian drones, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and concern that drones might be converted to military use. Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government is friendly with Moscow,...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in a case that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were...
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — West African nations have given Niger's coup leaders one week to reinstate the country's democratically elected president and have threatened to use force if the demands aren't met. The announcement came at...
GEORGETOWN, (CMC) Members of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Saturday destroyed illicit drugs valued US$2.5 million most of which were seized during the first half of this year. The exercise was conducted at the former Ministry of...
A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the US State Department issued a “do-not travel advisory” in the country and ordered non-emergency personnel to...
SAN DIEGO (AP): Immigration advocates said that an online appointment system to seek asylum at the US border with Mexico is out of reach for many migrants, in the latest legal challenge to the Biden administration’s immigration agenda. The...
Cairo (AP) Palestinian factions kicked off a meeting Sunday in Egypt to discuss reconciliation efforts as violence in the occupied West Bank surged between Israel and Palestinian militants. The main groups, Hamas and Fatah, have been split since...
BANGUI (AP) The Central African Republic went to the polls Sunday in a highly anticipated vote on a new constitution, which would remove presidential term limits. President Faustin Archange Touadera wants to extend presidential terms from five to...
Tokyo (AP) Toshihiro Mutsuda was only five years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-...
Niamey(AP) Thousands of supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coup earlier this week marched through the streets of the capital, Niamey, on Sunday waving Russian flags, chanting the name of the Russian president and forcefully...
The rapper G Herbo pleaded guilty Friday to his role in a scheme that used stolen credit card information to pay for a lavish lifestyle including private jets, exotic car rentals, a luxury vacation rental and even expensive designer puppies. Under...
Former United States President Donald Trump has been indicted on three additional charges in a case that accuses him of illegally possessing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, allegations that add fresh detail to the criminal case...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's government statistics agency has acknowledged it had to pay gangs to enter some towns to do census work last year. National Statistics Institute Assistant Director Susana Pérez Cadena told a...
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general asked for national and international support despite rising concerns that the...
HOOVER, Alabama (AP) — Authorities in Alabama said Friday they have filed criminal charges against a woman who confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of the...
LISBON (AP): When a panel of experts read aloud some of the harrowing accounts they had collected from recently discovered victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church, the country’s senior bishops squirmed in the auditorium’s...
LONDON (AP): Prince Harry’s lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully snooping on him can go to trial, but not on claims of phone hacking, a High Court judge ruled Thursday. The Duke of Sussex alleged the publisher of The...
WASHINGTON (AP): With millions of Americans facing broiling heat across the Southwest, President Joe Biden announced new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible. White House press secretary...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing the White House, the Justice Department, and the Department of Education to adopt an “aggressive legal strategy” to scrutinise recent changes to Florida's Black...
SAN SALVADOR (AP) — New rules passed by El Salvador's congress Wednesday will allow courts to try accused gang members in mass trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of cases for those detained under the country's...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is facing accusations that he and aides asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct the classified documents investigations. The allegations were made...
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's president defiantly declared Thursday that democracy would prevail, a day after mutinous soldiers detained him and announced they had seized power in a coup because of the West African country's...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 21 people died and 40 others were rescued after a Philippine passenger boat overturned on Thursday when it was lashed by strong winds in Laguna Lake southeast of Manila, police said. Police said rescue...
WASHINGTON (AP) — July has been so hot thus far that scientists calculate that this month will be the hottest globally on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat through....
