BEIJING (AP): Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA commingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic might have originated from animals, not a lab,...
THE HAGUE (AP): The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Friday it issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine. The court said in a...
NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement officials in New York are making security preparations for the possibility that former President Donald Trump could be indicted in the coming weeks and appear in a Manhattan courtroom in an...
Farmworkers were leading a five-day, 45-mile trek on foot this week from one of the poorest communities in Florida to a mansion-lined, oceanfront town that is one of the richest in an effort to pressure retailers to leverage their purchasing power...
BEIJING (AP) — Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA comingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic may have originated from animals, not a lab,...
THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court said Friday it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine. The court said...
PARIS (AP) — Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection and university campuses...
SAN SALVADOR, (AP): El Salvador’s government sent 2,000 more suspects to a huge new prison built especially for gang members Wednesday, and the justice minister vowed that “they will never return” to the streets. The tough statement came as the...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Honduras’ decision to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of China is yet another sign of growing Chinese influence in Latin America. For decades the Asian superpower funnelled billions of dollars into investment and...
PARIS (AP): Thousands of people angered over President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age joined a national strike on Wednesday as a committee of lawmakers advanced the proposal. It remains to be seen whether Macron can command a...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexican authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy nicknamed ‘El Chapito’ for the drug-related killing of eight people near Mexico City, the federal Public Safety Department said Thursday. The boy allegedly rode up on a...
LONDON (AP) — Unions representing hundreds of thousands of nurses, ambulance crews and other health care workers in England reached a deal Thursday to resolve months of disruptive strikes for higher wages, though the pact didn't include...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron shunned parliament and opted to push through a highly unpopular bill that would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 by triggering a special constitutional power on Thursday. The risky move is...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Pentagon on Thursday released footage of what it said was a Russian aircraft pouring fuel on a US Air Force surveillance drone and clipping the drone's propeller in international airspace over the Black...
SAN JUAN, (AP): The UN’s special envoy to Haiti warned Wednesday that the ongoing training and resources the international community is providing to Haiti’s national police force is not enough to fight increasingly violent gangs. Helen La Lime,...
KYIV (AP): Russia and the United States ratcheted up their confrontational rhetoric Wednesday over a US surveillance drone that encountered Russian warplanes and crashed near Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which the Kremlin has illegally annexed. At...
DUBAI, (AP): Iranian police said Wednesday that 110 suspects have been arrested in connection with the suspected poisoning of thousands of girls in schools across the country. Students say they have been sickened by noxious fumes in incidents...
NASSAU (CMC): Former youth, sports and culture minister, Lanisha Rolle, was Wednesday granted US$120,000 bail and will reappear in court on May 31, after she was charged with fraudulently awarding contracts in excess of US$700,000 Rolle faced one...
NEW YORK (AP) — A business tycoon long sought by the government of China and known for cultivating ties to Trump administration figures including Steve Bannon was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a $1 billion fraud...
ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest. They were met with gunfire, and the shooters escaped, leaving behind an increasingly...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Central Bank chief was again charged with corruption on Wednesday, this time after failing to show up for questioning before a European legal team visiting Beirut in a money-laundering probe linked to the governor...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Floods caused by torrential rains hit two provinces that were devastated by last month's earthquake, killing at least 10 people and increasing the misery for thousands who were left homeless, officials and media...
KYIV (AP): A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a US surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday in a “brazen violation of international law”, causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aerial vehicle, the US said. Moscow said...
THE HAGUE (AP): A Dutch man was convicted on Tuesday of removing his condom during sex without his partner’s consent, in the first trial in the Netherlands for so-called ‘stealthing’. However, Dordrecht District Court acquitted the man of a rape...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Several teachers at a secondary school here on Tuesday staged a protest demanding “justice”, after one of them was allegedly assaulted by several students and a parent. The teachers, backed by the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU),...
