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US employers added a surprisingly strong 339,000 jobs in May

Published:Friday | June 2, 2023 | 9:42 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs, well above expectations and evidence of enduring strength in an economy that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to cool....

Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2023 | 4:14 PM

LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane, Rastafari on this small island nation are now legally growing and ritualistically smoking marijuana. For Rastafari, the practice brings...

Another girls’ dorm destroyed by fire; no injuries reported

Published:Friday | June 2, 2023 | 1:38 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): Another girls’ dormitory was destroyed by fire on Thursday. According to police reports, early Thursday, shortly before 3 a.m. (local time) , the blaze destroyed another dormitory, this time in Karasabai, Rupununi, in Region Nine...

Heather Mack, convicted in mother’s murder in Bali, plans to plead guilty in US, attorney says

Published:Friday | June 2, 2023 | 12:24 AM

CHICAGO (AP): A Chicago woman facing federal conspiracy charges in the 2014 killing of her mother during a luxury vacation in Bali plans to plead guilty, her attorney said Thursday. The details of any plea agreement or potential penalties under...

Authorities in Mexico find 45 bags with human remains

Published:Friday | June 2, 2023 | 12:23 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): Authorities in have found 45 bags containing human remains in a gorge on the outskirts of Guadalajara and are trying to determine how many bodies are there. The bags found at a forest overlook contained remains of men and women,...

Trinidad’s Francis elected next leader of UN General Assembly

Published:Friday | June 2, 2023 | 12:22 AM

UNITED NATIONS (AP): Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador Dennis Francis was elected Thursday as the next president of the UN General Assembly, the 193-member world body that has been at the forefront of the United Nations’ condemnation of Russia’s...

Tropical depression forms in Gulf of Mexico on first day of hurricane season

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2023 | 7:08 PM

MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, which is the official first day of the Atlantic hurricane season. National Hurricane Center forecasters said in a 5 p.m. advisory that the storm had sustained...

White House says Biden is ‘fine’ after he tripped and fell on stage at Air Force graduation

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2023 | 4:04 PM

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) — President Joe Biden fell on stage at the US Air Force Academy graduation Thursday and the White House said he was “fine” after tripping over a sandbag. Biden had been greeting the...

Guyana discusses treatment of people of African descent

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2023 | 12:54 AM

UNITED NATIONS (CMC): Guyana has provided differing positions regarding the possible discrimination of persons of African descent in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country with government saying there are legal and constitutional mechanisms to...

North Korea’s failed satellite launch triggers public confusion

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2023 | 12:50 AM

SEOUL (AP): North Korea’s launch of a spy satellite on Wednesday ended in an embarrassing failure, but still prompted public confusion and security jitters in neighbouring South Korea and Japan, which are wary of the North’s growing weapons arsenal...

Trapped by Sudan fighting, dozens of children die in orphanage

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2023 | 12:50 AM

CAIRO (AP): At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children perished over the past six weeks while trapped in harrowing conditions in an orphanage in Sudan’s capital as fighting raged outside. Most died from lack of food and from fever. Twenty-six...

China hangs tough on Taiwan sovereignty

Published:Thursday | June 1, 2023 | 12:18 AMChristopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer

The People's Republic of China’s Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Chen Daojiang, gave notice on Tuesday that his country will never again cede sovereignty of Taiwan, declaring that this issue is an internal one that must be resolved by the Chinese. “We...

Kidnapping charge tossed out against ex-mayor in case of missing Mexican students

Published:Wednesday | May 31, 2023 | 9:40 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The former mayor of a southern Mexico town where 43 students were abducted and disappeared in 2014 has been cleared of a kidnapping charge in the case, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed Wednesday...

Trapped by Sudan fighting, dozens of children died in orphanage in capital

Published:Wednesday | May 31, 2023 | 6:22 PM

CAIRO (AP) — At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children perished over the past six weeks while trapped in harrowing conditions in an orphanage in Sudan's capital as fighting raged outside. Most died from lack of food and...

New Zealand airline is asking passengers to weigh in before their flights

Published:Wednesday | May 31, 2023 | 6:10 PM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's national airline is asking passengers to step on the scales before they board international flights. Air New Zealand says it wants to weigh 10,000 passengers during a monthlong survey so pilots...

13 members of same family die in Namibia after eating toxic porridge

Published:Wednesday | May 31, 2023 | 11:55 AM

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Thirteen members of the same family have died in Namibia after eating porridge that authorities believe became toxic when it was mixed with a fermented substance left over from a homemade alcoholic beverage, the state...

North Korea spy satellite launch fails as rocket falls into the sea

Published:Wednesday | May 31, 2023 | 9:24 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's attempt to put its first spy satellite into space failed Wednesday in a setback to leader Kim Jong Un's push to boost his military capabilities as tensions with the United States and South Korea...

Death toll in girls’ dorm fire rises to 20 after 14-year-old dies in hospital

Published:Wednesday | May 31, 2023 | 1:12 AM

GEORGETOWN (AP): The death toll in a girls’ dormitory fire in Guyana rose to 20 on Tuesday when a 14-year-old girl died of her injuries at a hospital in Georgetown, the country’s health ministry said. Sherena Daniels had been in intensive care at...

What’s new in robots? An AI-powered humanoid machine that writes poems

Published:Wednesday | May 31, 2023 | 1:10 AM

LONDON (AP): Ameca can speak French, Chinese and dozens of other languages, instantly compose a poem, or sketch a cat on request. Ask for a smile, and you’ll get a clenched grin on her rubbery, blue face. Ameca is a humanoid robot powered by...

UK gov't fights demand to hand over Boris Johnson’s messages to COVID-19 inquiry

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2023 | 9:30 PM

LONDON (AP) — As Britain's prime minister, Boris Johnson established an independent public inquiry into his government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Now the inquiry wants to see, in full, what Johnson wrote...

Fire at Austrian hospital kills three patients, cigarette suspected as cause

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2023 | 9:24 PM

BERLIN (AP) — Three patients died in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in a town just outside Vienna, Austrian authorities said Tuesday. Police said they suspect a cigarette set off the blaze. The fire broke out in a fourth-floor...

Coast Guard searching for man who fell from cruise ship off Florida coast

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2023 | 8:22 PM

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The United States Coast Guard said Tuesday that it's searching for a man who fell from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida. The 35-year-old passenger fell from the Carnival Magic ship about 185 miles east of...

Drivers line up for gas across Nigeria after new president scraps fuel subsidy

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2023 | 8:16 PM

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has scrapped a decadeslong government-funded subsidy that has helped reduce the price of gas, leading to long lines at fuel stations Tuesday as drivers scrambled to stock up before costs...

Report: At least 153 people arrested under special powers have died in Salvadoran prisons

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2023 | 3:07 PM

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country's powerful street gangs have died in state custody, according to a report released Monday by...

Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for notorious blood-testing hoax

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2023 | 1:22 PM

BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered Texas prison where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Holmes, 39, on Tuesday...

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