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Published:Saturday | March 4, 2023 | 12:57 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has welcomed the police investigation into human trafficking allegations which both she and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley have levelled at members of each other’s party. And she has...

Published:Saturday | March 4, 2023 | 12:46 AM

JAKARTA (AP): A large fire broke out at a fuel storage depot in Indonesia’s capital Friday, killing at least 17 people, injuring dozens of others and forcing the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents after spreading to their neighbourhood,...

Published:Saturday | March 4, 2023 | 12:46 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): A Pennsylvania woman, who went missing more than 30 years ago in a case that stumped authorities who later declared her legally dead, has been found living in a nursing home in Puerto Rico. Patricia Kopta left behind a husband and...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 9:33 PM

LONDON (AP) — Two senior clergymen in Jerusalem have consecrated the holy oil that will be used to anoint King Charles III during his coronation, as the Anglican Church seeks to underscore the monarchy's long history and the royal family...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 5:56 PM

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A large fire broke out at a fuel storage depot in Indonesia's capital Friday, killing at least 17 people, injuring dozens of others and forcing the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents after spreading to...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 4:07 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A skin lesion removed from President Joe Biden's chest last month was a basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer, his doctor said Friday, adding that no further treatment was required. Dr Kevin O'Connor,...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 11:22 AM

MADRID (AP) — Forty-two families in Spain are pursuing legal action against a nurse whom they allege faked the process of administering routine vaccines to their children, their lawyer said Thursday. The nurse worked for 18 months at a...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 10:26 AM

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court in Cambodia convicted opposition leader Kem Sokha of treason on Friday and sentenced him to 27 years of house arrest, the latest blow in a campaign by the government to silence its critics or drive them out...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 1:07 AM

YOKNEAM (AP): An Israeli-led crowd-funding campaign has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Palestinian residents of a West Bank town that was set ablaze by radical Jewish settlers, the organiser of the drive said Thursday. Some 12,000...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 1:04 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): With the foreign ministers of the Group of 20 leading economies meeting Thursday in New Delhi, host India is promoting itself as a rising superpower while leveraging its position on the global stage to bridge the gap between the...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 12:58 AM

THESSALONIKI (AP): Family members lined up to give DNA samples in hopes of identifying victims of a train crash that killed nearly 60 people in Greece, as workers went on strike Thursday saying the rail system is outdated, underfunded and dangerous...

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 12:28 AM

MADRID (AP): Forty-two families in Spain are pursuing legal action against a nurse whom they allege faked the process of administering routine vaccines to their children, their lawyer said Thursday. The nurse worked for 18 months at a government...

Published:Thursday | March 2, 2023 | 3:17 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in a federal...

Published:Thursday | March 2, 2023 | 12:41 PM

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gunmen left a threatening message Thursday for Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi and opened fire at a supermarket owned by his in-laws in Argentina's third-largest city, police said. Nobody was...

Published:Thursday | March 2, 2023 | 7:58 AM

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat warned Thursday that increasing Western support for Ukraine could trigger an open conflict between nuclear powers. Speaking at the UN conference on disarmament, Russian Deputy Foreign...

Published:Thursday | March 2, 2023 | 12:52 AM

DUBAI (AP): Iran’s president on Wednesday ordered the authorities to investigate a series of incidents in which noxious fumes have sickened students at girls’ schools, which some officials suspect are attacks targeting women’s education. Hundreds...

Published:Thursday | March 2, 2023 | 12:47 AM

ROME (AP): Wailing and other expressions of grief echoed through a sports complex in southern Italy as public viewing began on Wednesday of the closed coffins holding the bodies of dozens of migrants who died in a shipwreck. Meanwhile, the search...

Published:Thursday | March 2, 2023 | 12:45 AM

TEMPE (AP): Rescuers searched for survivors on Wednesday in the mangled, burned-out wreckage of two trains that slammed into each other in northern Greece, killing at least 43 people and crumpling carriages into twisted steel knots in the country’s...

Published:Thursday | March 2, 2023 | 12:44 AM

ABUJA (AP): Election officials declared Bola Tinubu the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election Wednesday, keeping the ruling party in power in Africa’s most populous nation and raising the spectre of protests by opposition supporters who already...

Published:Wednesday | March 1, 2023 | 8:56 PM

ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) — A Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges after he checked in a suitcase with an explosive device hidden in the lining on a flight to Florida, authorities said Wednesday. Marc Muffley, 40, is charged...

Published:Wednesday | March 1, 2023 | 6:23 PM

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have been asked to vacate their home in Britain, suggesting a further fraying of ties with the royal family amid preparations for the coronation of his father, King Charles III....

Published:Wednesday | March 1, 2023 | 11:14 AM

TEMPE, Greece (AP) — Rescuers searched Wednesday through the burned-out wreckage of two trains that slammed into each other in northern Greece, killing at least 36 people and crumpling several carriages into twisted steel knots. Transport...

Published:Wednesday | March 1, 2023 | 10:24 AM

TikTok said Wednesday that every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in the coming weeks. The changes arrive during a period in which there are growing concerns among different...

Published:Wednesday | March 1, 2023 | 8:16 AM

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians awoke to a new president Wednesday, with ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu declared the winner of the country's election. As he thanked his supporters he appealed for reconciliation with his rivals, who...

Published:Wednesday | March 1, 2023 | 1:15 AM

LONDON (AP): The United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) sealed a deal on Monday to resolve their thorny post-Brexit trade dispute over Northern Ireland, hailing the agreement as the start of a “new chapter” in their often fractious...

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