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Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 4:16 PM

MIAMI (AP) — An 18-year-old Miami woman is accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill her 3-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...

Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 2:02 PM

MIAMI (AP) — Four members of a Florida family were convicted Wednesday of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a fake COVID-19 cure through their online church. A federal jury in Miami found Mark Grenon, 65, and his sons, 37-year-...

Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 12:09 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): Doctors in Israel held a two-hour strike Wednesday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary. The doctors say the plan will endanger public health by granting Netanyahu and his allies...

Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 12:09 AM

NAIROBI (AP): The number of people who died in connection with Kenya’s doomsday cult has crossed the 400 mark as detectives exhumed 12 more bodies on Monday believed to be followers of a pastor who ordered them to fast to death in order to meet...

Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 12:09 AM

MANZANILLO (AP): Lost at sea for months on a disabled catamaran, with no way to cook and no source of fresh water but the rain, Australian Timothy Shaddock said he expected to die. There was a lot to like about the experience, he said. Like when he...

Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (CMC): The United Kingdom government on Wednesday announced that it is imposing, with immediate effect, a visa regime on Dominica, Honduras, Namiba, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu. London said the decision to impose these visa requirements “has...

Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 12:09 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Journalists and other media professionals on Wednesday vowed to actively support an anti-kidnapping campaign in this crisis-torn, French-speaking CARICOM country. They made the pledge after several journalists took to the...

Published:Thursday | July 20, 2023 | 12:07 AM

FALLBROOK, California (AP): A three-year-old Southern California child accidentally shot and killed their one-year-old sibling after getting ahold of an unsecured handgun, the authorities said. The shooting was reported around 7:30 a.m. on Monday...

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 6:45 PM

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — A gunman killed two people at a downtown construction site in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland on Thursday, as the nation prepared to host games in the FIFA Women's World Cup tournament. Authorities...

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 4:20 PM

TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government is recruiting high-skilled foreigners working in the United States to move to Canada instead, and the programme has been so successful that it met its target of 10,000 applicants within the first day....

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 9:35 AM

MIAMI (AP) — Several civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging Florida's new immigration law. The Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, Americans for Immigrant Justice and...

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 8:27 AM

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Vladimir Putin has agreed not to attend an economic summit in Johannesburg next month after being asked to stay away by host country South Africa, which was facing a major legal quandary over whether to arrest...

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, an indication...

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 12:06 AM

(AP): Major American providers of oilfield services supplied Russia with millions of dollars in equipment for months after its invasion of Ukraine, helping to sustain a critical part of its economy even as Western nations launched sanctions aimed...

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 12:06 AM

PANAMA CITY (AP): Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was sentenced on Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison for money laundering. Martinelli, 71, had been trying to mount a political comeback in next year’s general elections, but a...

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 5:33 PM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's attorney general filed felony charges Tuesday against 16 Republicans who acted as fake electors for then-President Donald Trump in 2020, accusing them of submitting false certificates confirming they were...

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 3:57 PM

MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) — An Australian sailor who had been adrift at sea with his dog for three months has been rescued by a Mexican tuna boat in international waters, the fishing vessel's owner said Monday. Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock, 54...

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 3:04 PM

MILAN (AP) — Officials warned residents and tourists packing Mediterranean destinations on Tuesday to stay indoors during the hottest hours as the second heat wave in as many weeks hits the region and Greece, Spain, and Switzerland...

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 12:29 PM

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison for money laundering. Martinelli, 71, had been trying to mount a political comeback in next year's general elections,...

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 10:51 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has received a letter informing him he is a target of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential...

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 8:56 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — United States officials say an American detained after crossing the border from South Korea into North Korea was a soldier. There were no immediate details about how or why the soldier crossed the heavily...

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 12:08 AM

LONDON (AP): Russia on Monday halted a breakthrough wartime deal that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty....

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 12:08 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government Monday reiterated an earlier position that it would offer “every type of assistance possible and necessary” to support the victims and families of the tragic fire at the dormitory of a secondary school that...

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 12:07 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): The United Nation’s (UN) World Food Program announced on Monday that it is facing a shortage of funds and won’t be able to help 100,000 people in Haiti this month who urgently need assistance. The 25 per cent cut comes as a record 4....

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2023 | 12:07 AM

CAIRO (AP): A five-storey apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, leaving at least 12 people dead, authorities said as rescuers continued to search through the rubble. Building collapses are common in Egypt, where...

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