SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer who was killed on a New Mexico movie set, prosecutors announced Thursday....
LIMA, Peru (AP) — People poured into Peru's coastal capital, many from remote Andean regions, for a protest Thursday against President Dina Boluarte and in support of her predecessor, whose ouster last month launched deadly unrest and...
Amazon is ending a charity donation programme it ran for a decade in its latest cost-cutting move. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said the programme, called AmazonSmile, will shut down by February 20 because it had “not grown to...
PARIS (AP) — Workers in many French cities took to the streets Thursday to reject proposed pension changes that would push back the retirement age, amid a day of nationwide strikes and protests seen as a major test for Emmanuel Macron and his...
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must fire a key ally from the country’s new Cabinet, presenting the Israeli leader with a potential coalition crisis and deepening a rift over the power...
BERLIN (AP): The Berlin museum authority said on Wednesday that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German colony of East Africa after having researched their origin for several years. During their research at the city’s...
ANCHORAGE (AP): A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska Native whaling village, killing a mother and her one-year-old son in an extremely rare attack before another community member shot and killed the bear, authorities...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday she is stepping down as New Zealand's leader and will not contest this year's general elections. Fighting back tears, Ardern told reporters in Napier that...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's caretaker government Wednesday approved opening credit lines totalling $116 million to help fix its crippled state electricity grid. The cash-strapped country for over two years has struggled with rampant power...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's president said Wednesday his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to be returned to Mexico, presumably to serve out his sentence. Guzman, 64, was sentenced...
PARIS (AP) — A French nun who was believed to be the world's oldest person but had been reportedly growing weary of the burdens of age has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday....
LONDON (AP) — The Church of England said Wednesday it will allow blessings for same-sex, civil marriages for the first time but same-sex couples still will not be allowed to marry in its churches. The decision followed five years of debate...
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of nurses in Britain walked out Wednesday in a new protest over pay, with no end in sight to a wave of strikes that has piled pressure on the UK's overburdened public health system. Two 12-hour strikes on...
BROVARY, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's interior minister died Wednesday in a helicopter crash near the capital that killed more than a dozen other people, including children, authorities said. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, who oversaw...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Authorities said on Tuesday that they had unearthed 10 dismembered bodies from under the floor of an events hall in central Mexico. The grisly discovery was made in the town of Tenango del Valle, just west of Mexico City, after...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday sentenced two brothers from Guyana to life imprisonment with any chance of parole coming after 20 years in jail. The CCJ had in October last year heard...
VISALIA (AP): A shooter stood over a 16-year-old mother clutching her 10-month-old baby and pumped bullets into their heads in a brazen attack in a central California farming community that left six dead at a home linked to drugs and guns, a...
ST JOHN’S ( CMC): It’s a general election that has been long in coming, even though the constitutional deadline is March 2023. But when the estimated 60,916 people, who are eligible to cast ballots in Wednesday’s general election, begin the...
BRASILIA, (AP): The office of Brazil’s prosecutor-general has presented its first charges against some of the thousands of people who authorities say stormed government buildings in an effort to overturn former President Jair Bolsonaro’s loss in...
BEIJING (AP): China’s population shrank for the first time in decades last year as its birthrate plunged, official figures showed Tuesday, adding to pressure on leaders to keep the economy growing despite an ageing workforce and at a time of rising...
DNIPRO (AP): The death toll from the Ukraine war’s deadliest attack on civilians at one location since last spring, a weekend Russian missile strike on a southeastern apartment building, has reached 45, officials said Tuesday. Those killed in the...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): More than 90 countries have expressed “deep concern” at Israel’s recent punitive measures against the Palestinians, steps taken in response to a UN request for the International Court of Justice to render an opinion on the...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday it was reviewing more than 1,600 cases of alleged sexual offences and domestic abuse involving its staff after it emerged that a London police officer who was a serial rapist...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The office of Brazil's prosecutor-general has presented its first charges against some of the thousands of people who authorities say stormed government buildings in an effort to overturn former President...
BERLIN (AP) — Police in western Germany carried Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other protesters away Tuesday from the edge of an open coal pit mine where they demonstrated against the ongoing destruction of a village to...
