LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announced Wednesday that their daughter had been christened in a private ceremony in California, publicly calling her a princess and revealing for the first time that they will use royal titles...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday proposed new taxes on the rich to help fund Medicare, saying the plan would help to extend the insurance programme's solvency by 25 years and provide a degree of middle-...
MADRID (AP) — Millions of people around the world planned to demonstrate, attend conferences and enjoy artistic events Wednesday to mark International Women's Day, an annual observance established to recognise women and to demand equality...
BEIJING (AP): Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned on Tuesday that Beijing and Washington are headed for “conflict and confrontation” if the US doesn’t change course, striking a combative tone at a moment when relations between the rivals are...
DHAKA (AP): An explosion in a seven-storey commercial building in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday killed at least 17 people and injured dozens, officials said. The explosion occurred in Gulistan area, a busy commercial area of Dhaka, fire...
PARIS (AP): Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across France took part Tuesday in a new round of protests and strikes against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64, in what unions hope will be their biggest show of force...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said yesterday that the people of the French-speaking Caribbean country of Haiti are enduring “conditions of nightmarish violence”. In his Global Update to...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Moscow sentenced a student activist to 8 1/2 years in prison for social media posts criticising Russia's war in Ukraine, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on dissent unleashed by the Kremlin....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A seventh Memphis Police Department employee has been fired for his role in the fatal arrest of Tyre Nichols, while an eighth police employee retired before it was recommended he lose his job for his part in...
The Biden administration sued to block JetBlue Airways' $3.8 billion purchase of Spirit Airlines, saying Tuesday that the deal would reduce competition and drive up air fares for consumers. The Justice Department said the tie-up would...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two of four Americans abducted in Mexico last week when their van was caught in a shootout were found dead, a top Mexican official said Tuesday. The two others have been found alive, with one wounded. Tamaulipas Governor...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An explosion in a seven-story commercial building in Bangladesh's capital on Tuesday killed at least 14 people and injured dozens, officials said. The explosion occurred in Gulistan, a busy commercial area of...
ANKARA (AP): One month after a powerful quake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, hundreds of thousands of people still need adequate shelter and sanitation, and an appeal for $1 billion to assist survivors is only 10 per cent funded, hampering...
DUBAI (AP): Iran’s supreme leader said on Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls’ schools are proven to be deliberate, the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an “unforgivable crime”. It was the first time Supreme...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Six soldiers drowned while trying to swim across a river in the Andes to reach a town where protests demanding the resignation of Peru's president have turned violent, military officials said Monday. The bodies of two...
PARIS (AP) — Roads blocked, oil refineries disrupted, planes grounded and trains halted — unions are threatening to shut down France's economy this week in what they hope is their toughest riposte yet to President Emmanuel Macron...
PARIS (AP) — The reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors and faithful at the end of 2024, less than six years after a fire ravaged its roof, French officials said...
Mexican authorities have found 343 migrants, including 103 unaccompanied minors, in an abandoned freight truck container on the side of a highway, the authorities said Monday. The National Immigration Institute said the trailer was found Sunday...
LONDON (AP) — The British government said Monday it will introduce legislation to ban anyone who arrives in the UK in small boats across the English Channel from ever settling in the country. The government said a bill, expected to be...
ATLANTA (AP) — Nearly three dozen people have been detained after flaming bottles and rocks were thrown at officers during a protest at “Cop City,” a new police training centre that's been the site of prior demonstrations and...
ROCHESTER, NY (AP) — False fears of a shooting at a rap concert in Rochester, New York, sent a crowd surging toward the exits, killing one person and injuring eight others, police said. Police found “no evidence to support a shooting...
OXON HILL (AP): Former President Donald Trump cast himself as the only Republican candidate who can build on his White House legacy, but shied away from directly critiquing his potential rivals, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Trump,...
LUZIRA (AP): Flowering plants rise as if by magic from Lake Victoria onto a wooden boat, giving it a leafy ambiance that enchants many visitors. The initial attraction becomes more compelling when tourists to Uganda learn that the greenery...
WASHINGTON (AP): For the first time, United Nations (UN) members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas — nearly half the planet’s surface — concluding two weeks of talks in New York. The UN Convention on the...
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England (AP) — On a blustery late-winter day in Shakespeare's birthplace, the foyer of the Other Place theatre is a cosy refuge. Visitors are having meetings over coffee, checking emails, writing poetry, learning to...
