In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday for a submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, a social media personality known for expressing misogynistic views online, was charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to exploit women, prosecutors said...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's son Hunter will plead guilty to federal tax offences and avoid prosecution on a separate gun charge in a deal with the Justice Department that likely spares him time behind bars. Hunter...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret chugged toward the eastern Caribbean on Tuesday as forecasters warned it could strengthen into a hurricane before approaching a region rushing to prepare itself for an unusually early storm....
CAIRO (AP): International donors promised almost US$1.5 billion in additional aid for conflict-stricken Sudan on Monday as the United Nations warned that the African country’s humanitarian crisis is worsening. Sudan has been rocked by fighting for...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): The Dutch government Monday offered an apology to the children and relatives of the Surinamese anti-colonial resistance fighter, Anton de Kom, who in 1932 was banned from entering the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Monday widened its search for human traffickers after a tragedy off the Greek coast last week that left more than 500 migrants feared drowned, including many Pakistanis, officials said. With no...
LONDON (AP) — Britain made a mistake in focusing too much on preparations for a flu pandemic rather than considering other types of pandemic in the years before the COVID-19 outbreak, former Prime Minister David Cameron told a public inquiry...
BALLIA, India (AP) — A scorching heat wave in two of India's most populous states has overwhelmed hospitals, filled a morgue to capacity and disrupted power supply, forcing staff to use books to cool patients, as officials investigate the...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico said Sunday they have destroyed 14 homemade armoured cars of the kind used by drug cartels to fight land battles. The vehicles are usually adapted from commercial trucks, with steel plate...
LUCKNOW (AP) At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the past several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heatwave. The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar...
TUNIS (AP) Ministers from Germany and France tasked with regulating migration are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea, for talks with the president and their counterpart in Tunisia, a major...
NEW YORK (AP) — A man stabbed a pit bull to death following a quarrel with the dog's owner in New York City's Central Park, officials said. The seriously injured dog was transported to a local animal clinic, where he was euthanised...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father's Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts...
WILLOWBROOK, Illinois (AP) — At least 20 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday during a gathering in a parking lot in suburban Chicago, authorities said. TV news video showed the strip mall lot filled with debris and police tape in...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care, her family said Saturday....
Communities from Houston to New Orleans opened cooling centres to bring relief as steamy hot temperatures settled across a broad swath of the US South on Saturday, and beachgoers fled a waterspout that swept ashore on a Florida beach. Governor Greg...
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 34 people have died in the past two days as a large swath of the north Indian state Uttar Pradesh swelters under severe heat, officials said Saturday, prompting doctors to advise residents over 60 to stay...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a secondary school near the border with Congo, the local mayor said...
PHILADELPHIA (AP): A group of women who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault and were dismayed when he had his conviction overturned and left prison, are trying again to seek justice in the courts by urging states to give them more time to pursue...
MEXICO CITY (AP): The United States Treasury on Friday announced sanctions on a Mexico-based migrant-trafficking gang that supplied asylum-seekers with false papers to game the process. Known as the Hernandez Salas organization, the gang is based...
ABUJA (AP): Most of the 108 people who drowned after a boat broke apart in north-central Nigeria were women and their children, survivors and local authorities told The Associated Press on Thursday as search efforts ended. The wooden boat was...
TOKYO (AP): Japan’s parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world’s lowest, amid calls for greater protection of children and women. The...
AP: The Vermont man charged with killing his mother off the coast of New England in a scheme to inherit millions of dollars has died awaiting trial, federal authorities said Thursday. Nathan Carman, 29, pleaded not guilty last year to fraud and...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's Supreme Court upheld Friday an immigration agreement between the United States and Canada that says asylum seekers must apply in the first country they arrive in. The 2002 Safe Third Country Agreement between the...
