LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Julian Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and 90s including 'A Room With a View' and 'Leaving Las Vegas', was found dead on a Southern California...
CHICAGO (AP) — Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region, and in parts of the central and eastern United States. In...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police backed by commandos staged a massive raid on Tuesday and said they rescued more than 2,700 workers from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and more than a dozen other countries who were...
Washington, DC: A historic “first” was recorded at the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) when 20 countries, drawn from Central America and the Caribbean, issued a joint declaration, calling on international financial and...
BRIDGETOWN ( CMC): Prime Minister Mia Mottley has praised the contribution of former prime minister Sir LLoyd Erskine Sandiford, who died on Monday at the age of 86, describing him as a true statesman who served Barbados with honour and the wider...
HARARE (AP): Sitabile Dewa was content with her sex life when she was married, but after her divorce, she found her prospects for erotic pleasure rather bleak. In socially conservative Zimbabwe, divorced women and single mothers are often cast as...
TEGUCIGALPA (AP): Honduras started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons on Monday and arrested a suspect in a pool hall shooting on Saturday that killed 11 people. Police said they were investigating the possibility that the pool hall...
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP): Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis promised to end birthright citizenship, finish building the southern border wall, and send US forces into Mexico to combat drug cartels as part of an aggressive – and familiar...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's president handed out 86 medals Monday to soldiers, Indigenous volunteers and government officials who helped in the rescue of four children who spent 40 days on their own in the jungle after a plane...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday blasted organisers of a weekend revolt, the gravest threat yet to his power, as “traitors” who played into the hands of Ukraine's government and its allies. Speaking in a stern tone and...
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis promised to end birthright citizenship, finish building the southern border wall and send United States forces into Mexico to combat drug cartels as part of an...
BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Monday it is launching a campaign against deaths from heat waves that are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said Germany is learning lessons from...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A man was stoned to death after being accused of blasphemy in northwest Nigeria, authorities and activists said, sparking outrage on Monday from rights groups worried about what they said were growing threats to...
JERUSALEM (AP): An Israeli producer of Hollywood blockbuster films took the stand in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial on Sunday, describing how he routinely delivered tens of thousands of dollars of Champagne, cigars and...
ISLAMABAD (AP): The supreme leader of the Taliban released a message on Sunday claiming that his government has taken the necessary steps for the betterment of women’s lives in Afghanistan, where women are banned from public life and work, and...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Kentucky woman has been accused of fatally shooting her West Texas Uber driver after mistakenly believing she was being kidnapped and taken to Mexico, according to police. Phoebe Copas remained jailed Sunday in El Paso...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Gunmen burst into a pool hall in northern Honduras and opened fire, killing 11 people and prompting President Xiomara Castro to announce security measures including curfews in the area amid a wave of drug...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) —At least three people have been found dead, and at least five others are thought to be injured, police in Missouri said while investigating two shootings with multiple victims in the same area of Kansas City...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — One person was killed and several others injured when a roller coaster derailed in Stockholm on Sunday, Swedish TV reported. Park officials told public broadcaster SVT that one of the carriages on the Jetline rollercoaster...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): At least 31 illegal miners are believed to have died in a gas explosion in a shuttered gold mine in South Africa that happened more than a month ago but is only now coming to light after people reported their relatives missing,...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Republican-led challenge to a Biden administration policy that prioritises the deportation of immigrants who are deemed to pose the greatest risk to public safety or were picked up at the...
KYIV (AP): The owner of the Wagner private military contractor escalated his direct challenge to the Kremlin on Friday, calling for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia’s defence minister. The security services reacted immediately by...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): As Guatemala prepares to elect a new president Sunday, its citizens are fed up with government corruption, on edge about crime and struggling with poverty and malnutrition – all of which drives tens of thousands out of the...
SAN JUAN (AP): Tropical Storm Cindy has formed behind Tropical Storm Bret, in the first case of two storms in the tropical Atlantic in June since record keeping began in 1851, forecasters said on Friday. The historic event signals an early and...
DENVER (AP) — The girlfriend of a dentist convicted of murdering his wife on an African safari was sentenced Friday to 17 years in prison for being an accessory to the crime during a hearing where relatives of the slain woman told...
