ISLAMABAD (AP) — Much of Pakistan was left without power for several hours on Monday morning as an energy-saving measure by the government backfired. The outage spread panic and raised questions about the cash-strapped government's...
TEL AVIV (AP) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired a key Cabinet ally on Sunday, heeding a Supreme Court ruling commanding him to do so and deepening a rift over the power of the courts. Netanyahu announced he was firing Aryeh Deri, who...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (AP) Every day when Marie Carmel Daniel’s husband put on his flak vest and walked out the door for another day of fighting Haiti’s gangs, she wondered if he would come home that night. Friday was the day her smiling spouse of 18...
BEIJING (AP): People across China rang in the Lunar New Year on Sunday with large family gatherings and crowds visiting temples after the government lifted its strict ‘zero-COVID’ policy, marking the biggest festive celebration since the...
MOSCOW (AP) Two years after Azerbaijan and Armenia ended a war that killed about 6,800 soldiers and displaced around 90,000 civilians, tensions between the countries are again high in a dispute over a six-kilometre (nearly four-mile) road known...
DENPASAR (AP): A direct flight from China landed in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for the first time in nearly three years on Sunday, after the route was suspended due to the pandemic. At least 210 people were on board the chartered plane,...
MONTEREY PARK, California (AP) — Law enforcement officials swarmed and entered a white van Sunday afternoon that officials suspect was driven by a gunman who opened fire on a Southern California ballroom dance studio, killing 10 people and...
BEIRUT (AP) — A building collapsed in a neighbourhood in Syria's northern city of Aleppo early Sunday, killing at least 16 people, including one child, and injuring four others, state media reported. The five-story building housing about...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday made an impassioned plea, delivered partly in Spanish, for an end to widening violence in Peru over demands for the resignation of the country's president. Addressing some 15,000 people gathered...
MONTEREY PARK, California (AP) — A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the US this...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday and located six additional documents containing classified markings and also took possession of some of his notes, the president's lawyer...
REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (AP) — White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who has spent more than two years as President Joe Biden's top aide, is preparing to leave his job in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with Klain...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil's army chief Saturday amid concerns over threats to the country's democracy following the January 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters. The official...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin announced on Facebook that he has married his “longtime love” in a small ceremony in Los Angeles. Aldrin, who made history along with Neil Armstrong as the first humans...
DAVOS, (AP): Elites from politics, business, academia and the arts on Friday wrapped up the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual conclave in the Swiss town of Davos – where worries about the war in Ukraine, a warming planet and a cooling global...
FREETOWN, (AP): A landmark bill mandating that women make up 30 per cent of Sierra Leone’s workforce and government positions went into effect on Friday, along with paid maternity leave benefits extended to 14 weeks. The legislation signed by...
LIMA, (AP): Thousands of protesters demanding the ouster of President Dina Boluarte poured into Peru’s capital, clashing with police who fired tear gas. Many came from remote regions, where dozens have died in unrest that has gripped the country...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Friday unveiled an eight-member Cabinet that was sworn into office following Wednesday’s nail-biting general election that resulted in his ruling Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) being...
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday announced plans to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19 to the equivalent of seasonal influenza in the spring, a move that would further relax mask-wearing and other preventive...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the contest Saturday to replace Jacinda Ardern. Hipkins, 44, must still get...
LONDON (AP) — United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was fined by police on Friday for taking off his seat belt to film a social media video in a moving car. Sunak, 42, has apologised for making an “error of judgement”...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A judge in Romania has granted a request to extend by another 30 days the arrest of Andrew Tate, the social media personality who was detained in the country on charges of being part of an organised crime group,...
LONDON (AP) — Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6 per cent of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai...
SAN JUAN (AP): The US Virgin Islands (USVI) has authorised the recreational and sacramental use of marijuana for anyone 21 and older, joining several nations across the socially conservative Caribbean that have relaxed their cannabis laws. The move...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Gaston Browne was Thursday morning sworn in as prime minister for an unprecedented third consecutive term and with a reduced majority in Parliament, he said he would have a smaller, more nimble Cabinet this time around. Browne, who...
