AP: Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States, announcing the move on Tuesday in a bitter speech in which he made clear he would not change his strategy...
Published:Wednesday | February 22, 2023 | 12:47 AM
SAN JUAN (AP): A police officer and a reggaeton singer are among 24 people accused of running a suspected drug-trafficking ring in Puerto Rico, officials announced Tuesday. The group is accused of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute...
Published:Wednesday | February 22, 2023 | 12:46 AM
GEORGETOWN (CMC): A High Court judge has sentenced two fishermen to 25 years in jail after they pleaded guilty of manslaughter in the death of boat captain, Mahadeo Ramdehol, during a piracy attack in 2017. Justice Navindra Singh Monday imposed the...
NEW YORK (AP) — The family of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X marked on Tuesday the anniversary of his 1965 assassination by announcing plans to sue agencies including the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others for $100...
NEW YORK (AP) — A former Mexican presidential cabinet member was convicted in the US on Tuesday of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating. Under tight security, an anonymous New York...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania's capital agreed Tuesday to extend social media influencer Andrew Tate's detention on suspicion of organised crime and human trafficking by another 30 days, an official said. Tate, 36, a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of Enfamil announced a recall of about 145,000 cans of infant formula due to the possibility of cross-contamination with a bacteria that can cause serious illness or death. Reckitt, a United Kingdom-based consumer...
LONDON (AP) — Work less, get more. A trial of a four-day workweek in Britain, billed as the world's largest, has found that an overwhelming majority of the 61 companies that participated over six months last year will keep going with the...
ISTANBUL (AP) — The death toll in Turkey and Syria rose to eight in a new and powerful earthquake that struck two weeks after a devastating temblor killed nearly 45,000 people, authorities and media said Tuesday. Turkey's disaster...
SAO SEBASTIAO (AP): Hundreds of rescuers searched Monday for survivors of landslides and flooding that killed at least 36 people along the coast of Brazil’s southern state of Sao Paulo following a huge weekend downpour. Worst hit was the city of...
ANKARA (AP): A new 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday killed three people and injured more than 200 in parts of Turkey that were laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands. Officials said more buildings collapsed,...
KYIV (AP): President Joe Biden swept unannounced into Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and unjust war”, days before the...
NASSAU (CMC): A 21-year-old man has been remanded into custody until Thursday after he appeared in a magistrate’s court on Monday charged with threatening to kill Prime Minister Philip Davis. The man, identified as Isaac Roberts, denied the...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday struck parts of Turkey and Syria that were laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed around 45,000 people. Officials said more buildings collapsed, trapping...
SAO SEBASTIO, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of rescuers searched Monday for survivors of landslides and flooding that killed at least 36 people along the coast of Brazil's southern state of Sao Paulo following a huge weekend downpour. Worst hit...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A speeding passenger bus crashed off a motorway and overturned in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 14 passengers and injuring 63 others, police and government officials said Monday. The crash happened overnight near the...
LANSING (AP): Michigan State University Professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz is still haunted by what he witnessed last Monday night, when a gunman entered his classroom in Berkey Hall, killing two of his students in what he describes as “12 minutes of...
ABUJA (AP): The leading contenders in Nigeria’s presidential election have made their last push for support, a week before the West African nation’s key election. As the campaign period neared its end, both the ruling party’s Bola Tinubu and the...
TUNIS (AP): Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered Europe’s top trade union official to leave the country after she addressed protesters at a demonstration organised by the North African country’s influential labour union. Authorities in Tunis...
ISTANBUL (AP): As the search-and-rescue effort for buried survivors of the February 6 earthquake started to wind down in Turkey, demolition teams have moved in to clear the mounds of rubble left by the worst disaster in modern Turkish history....
NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in 'Homicide: Life on the Street' and 'Law & Order: SVU', has died. He was 78....
LONDON (AP) — The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a UN-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of...
ADIYAMAN, Turkey (AP): A 17-year-old high school student has captured Turkish hearts after he filmed a farewell message to his loved ones as he was trapped under the rubble of his home during last week's earthquake. Taha Erdem and his family were...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration is scrambling to avert a diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlement activity this week at the United Nations (UN) that threatens to overshadow and perhaps derail what the United States hopes will be a solid...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A couple and their son were pulled alive from under a collapsed apartment building more than 12 days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ravaged parts of Turkey and Syria, although the child later died at a hospital,...
