PARIS (AP) — France's national police chief has said that law enforcement officers under investigation shouldn't be jailed like ordinary citizens, amid a walkout by numerous Marseille police over the detention of a colleague for his...
ROME (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged Russia to resume the internationally brokered deal so that grain can be shipped from Ukraine's Black Sea ports, saying that otherwise, the world's most...
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama said Monday that a woman has confessed to fabricating a story that she was kidnapped after stopping to check on a toddler she saw walking on the side of the interstate. Hoover Police Department Chief...
LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk has unveiled a new black and white "X" logo to replace Twitter's famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. Musk...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Latin America is taking Barbie mania to an extreme, with everything from pink-coloured tacos and pastries, commercial planes bearing the Barbie logo, political ads and even Barbie-themed protests. But it’s not all high heels and...
NEW YORK (AP): More and more couples are throwing out the playbook for a traditional wedding – and posing new challenges for the people they hire to create the perfect images of their big day. Getting married has traditionally involved a large...
STOCKHOLM (AP) A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists in Sweden has sparked an angry reaction in Muslim countries and raised questions – including in Sweden – about why such acts are allowed. In...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's justice minister resigned Monday after police charged her with reckless driving and resisting arrest following a car crash. The incident involving Kiri Allan was the latest in a series of...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — A soldier in Congo opened fire on family members and others who had buried his son before he could arrive home to attend the ceremony, killing 13 people, including 10 children, officials said Sunday. The attack late...
NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk said Sunday that he plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from the famous blue bird, marking what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in a hospital on Sunday after an emergency heart procedure, while opposition to his government's contentious judicial overhaul plan reached a fever pitch and...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A large wildfire burning on the Greek island of Rhodes for a fifth day has forced authorities to order an evacuation of four locations, including two seaside resorts. About 2,000 people, including tourists, were...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka is considering the possibility of allowing the use of the Indian rupee for local transactions, as the island nation struggles to build its depleted foreign reserves and to emerge from last year's...
AP: An 18-year-old northeastern Nebraska woman was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for burning and burying a foetus she aborted with her mother’s help in a case watched by advocates as a slew of states move to...
AP: By pulling out of a landmark deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea, Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking a gamble that could badly damage Moscow’s relations with many of its partners that have stayed neutral or...
DIMONA (AP): For two years, Toveet Israel and dozens of other residents of the Village of Peace have lived in fear. Dimona, a city on the edge of the nation of Israel’s Negev Desert, has been her home for 24 years. Her eight children were born here...
MIAMI (AP): An 18-year-old Miami woman is accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill her three-year-old son. The woman appeared before a Miami-Dade County judge Wednesday following her arrest on charges of solicitation of murder and unlawful use of...
RALEIGH, NC (AP) — Most of the destruction from a tornado that tore through eastern North Carolina Wednesday and struck a large Pfizer pharmaceutical plant affected its storage facility, rather than its medicine production areas, the...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix enjoyed its biggest springtime spurt in subscribers since the early days of the pandemic three years ago, providing the latest sign that a recent crackdown on password sharing and the rollout of a cheaper...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. The May 20, 2024, trial date,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology have agreed to meet a set of AI safeguards brokered by President Joe Biden's...
ROSEAU (CMC): The Dominica government Thursday described as “unfortunate” the decision of the United Kingdom (UK) government to impose, with immediate effect, a visa regime on Dominica and several other countries. “We appreciate that at this time...
MOSCOW (AP): Mercenaries from Russian military company Wagner launched joint drills with the Belarusian military on Thursday, almost a month after their short-lived rebellion against Moscow. Poland built up troops on its border with Belarus in...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves Thursday said he remains confident that the police will solve the mass shootings in the capital on Wednesday night that left five people dead, including a 13-year-old boy. “We will get to the...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A home that Las Vegas police raided this week in connection with the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur is tied to one of the only surviving witnesses to the crime, a man long known to investigators whose nephew was seen...
