DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Programme (WFP) says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone, though not entirely avert, famine in Somalia,...
BANGKOK (AP) — Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigned Tuesday, becoming the most senior member of the government to step down after a series of high-profile corruption scandals for which he was held responsible. The state Vietnam News...
A failed Republican candidate who authorities said was angry over his defeat and made baseless claims the election last November was “rigged” against him was arrested in connection with a series of drive-by shootings targeting the...
BEIJING (AP) — For the first time in decades, China has fewer people than it did at the start of last year, according to official figures released Tuesday. The world's most populous country has worried for years about an ageing citizenry...
KABUL (AP): Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags. The hooded mannequins are one symbol of the Taliban’s...
LONDON (AP): British judges gave the go-ahead on Monday for the Court of Appeal to consider challenges to the UK government’s plan to send some asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. Two High Court judges ruled in December that the...
LONDON (AP): A London police officer on Monday admitted raping and sexually assaulting a dozen women over a 17-year period, in what prosecutors described as one of the most shocking cases involving a serving police officer. David Carrick, 48,...
Canada has imposed sanctions on two Haitian “elites” in response to acts of significant corruption that are fuelling the political and economic crisis in the French-speaking CARICOM country. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said that Canada is...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): Police are probing the circumstances that lead to the St John’s City East Constituency office of the ruling Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) being partly destroyed by fire on Monday. Media reports said that the fire began...
BEIJING (AP) — The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December following weeks of...
LONDON (AP) — A London police officer on Monday admitted to raping and sexually assaulting a dozen women over a 17-year period, in what prosecutors described as one of the most shocking cases involving a serving police officer. David Carrick...
ROME (AP) — Italy's No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was captured on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said. Messina Denaro was captured...
NEW YORK (CMC): An immigrant rights group has welcomed an announcement by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to protect Caribbean and other immigrant workers who suffer or witness violations of their labour rights from...
MOGADISHU (AP): Enough was enough. For 13 years, extremists with al-Qaeda’s East Africa affiliate had controlled Mohamud Adow’s village in central Somalia, imposing harsh ideology and arresting local teachers and traditional leaders. Then, word...
TEL AVIV (AP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government plans to charge ahead with an overhaul of the country’s judicial system, despite fierce criticism from top legal officials and protests against the changes that drew...
MADRID (AP): Several thousand health workers returned to the streets of Spain’s capital Sunday to protest what they claim is the dismantling of Madrid’s public health-care system by its conservative regional government. Carrying homemade signs...
MARBURY (AP): An Alabama engine mechanic took refuge in a shipping container as a tornado from a violent storm decimated his shop and killed two of his neighbours along its destructive path across Alabama and Georgia. The harrowing stories of...
NEW YORK (AP) — Officials are investigating a close call at a New York airport Friday night between a plane that was crossing a runway and another that was preparing for takeoff. ″(Expletive)! Delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance! Delta...
DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 29 Sunday, the regional governor reported as rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the...
POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — As search efforts ended for the day, 68 people were confirmed dead after a regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara Sunday,...
TOKYO (AP): Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a court said Friday. Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested immediately after allegedly shooting...
MIAMI (AP): The Coast Guard returned another 177 Cuban migrants who were caught at sea off Florida to the island on Thursday, while a group of about two dozen Haitians swam ashore in Miami. The Cuban migrants were all intercepted separately off...
NEW YORK (AP): Donald Trump’s company was fined US$1.6 million Friday for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks, symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an enterprise boasting billions...
VALENCIA, Spain (AP): Like many of the seven million Venezuelans who have abandoned their homeland in recent years, when Dinorah Figuera left behind her family and medical career in 2018 she was forced to accept meals from local charities and hop...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced a process by which migrant workers who witness or are victims of workplace labour violations can apply for protection from deportation, in a development...
