BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations are fine-tuning a coordinated response to China's COVID-19 crisis on Wednesday and are zeroing in on travel restrictions that would upset both Beijing and the global airline industry. China has...
BEIJING (AP): The Chinese government sharply criticised COVID-19 testing requirements imposed on passengers from China and threatened countermeasures against countries involved, which include the US and several European nations. “We believe that...
WASHINGTON (AP): Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed in marathon voting Tuesday to become House Speaker, a historic defeat with no clear way out as House Republicans dug in for a long, messy start for the new Congress. Needing 218 votes in the...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Latin American leaders converged on Brazil to meet with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his first full day in office on Monday, welcoming him back to power and hoping his country assumes a great role on the international...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): A group of international personalities including heads of state, says the global community has a responsibility towards Haiti even as it questioned whether foreign military intervention would assist in turning around the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unable to elect Republican leader Kevin McCarthy as the new House speaker Tuesday, the Republicans adjourned for the day in disarray as the party tries to regroup from his a historic defeat after a long, messy start for the...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and China on Tuesday moved closer to a political standoff over the COVID-19 crisis, with Beijing vehemently rejecting travel restrictions some EU nations have started to impose that could be...
SANTOS, Brazil (AP) — Brazil said a final farewell to Pelé on Tuesday, burying the legend who unified the bitterly divided country. Newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid his respects at Vila Belmiro, the...
NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to charges that he cheated investors and looted customer deposits on his cryptocurrency trading platform as a judge set a tentative trial date...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An airline ground crew worker was pulled into the engine of a plane during a fatal accident at an Alabama airport, authorities said. The National Transportation Safety Board released additional information about ...
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued in Botswana for former President Ian Khama on a charge of illegal possession of firearms. Khama, currently residing in neighbouring South Africa, denies the charge, his lawyer said....
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government sharply criticised COVID-19 testing requirements imposed on passengers from China and threatened countermeasures against countries involved, which include the United States and several European nations....
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP): Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as president on Sunday, and in his first address expressed optimism about plans to rebuild, while pledging that members of outgoing Jair Bolsonaro’s administration will be held...
BUCARAMANGA, Colombia (AP): Colombia and Venezuela on Sunday opened a key bridge linking the countries that had been closed for almost seven years amid political tensions, launching an era of improved relations under Colombia’s new leftist...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ’s body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay in state in St Peter’s Basilica on Monday as tens of thousands queued to pay tribute to the pontiff who shocked the world by retiring a decade...
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations warns that Haiti is “on the verge of abyss” as conflicts rage and international dialogue remains “the only hope” for peace” in the French-speaking CARICOM country. “It’s hard to overstate the extent to which...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two helicopters collided in an Australian tourist hotspot Monday afternoon, killing four passengers and critically injuring three others in a crash that drew emergency aid from beachgoers enjoying the water during...
ST LOUIS (AP) — Unless Missouri Governor Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the US. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former...
SANTOS, Brazil (AP) — Fans lined up early Monday outside the Vila Belmiro Stadium ahead of Pelé's funeral in his hometown of Santos. The Brazilian football great died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 82. Pel...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 's body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay in state in St Peter's Basilica on Monday as thousands of people filed by to pay tribute to the pontiff who...
HAVANA, CMC The Sweden-Cuban Solidarity Association says the organisation will be shipping two containers with donations collected in Sweden and Denmark to the Spanish- speaking Caribbean island as part of actions to counter the economic blockade...
MIAMI (CMC) The United States (US) Coast Guard said that the crew of its cutter Kathleen Moore repatriated 63 Haitians migrants last Friday. The US Coast Guard said that The Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos law-enforcement aircrew notified District...
VATICAN CITY (AP): Pope Francis prayed for his predecessor’s passage to heaven and again expressed thanks for a lifetime of service to the church, during New Year’s Day appearances a day after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died in retirement at the...
KABUL (AP): A senior UN official in Afghanistan met on Sunday the deputy prime minister of the Taliban-led government to discuss a ban on women working for non-governmental groups that Afghan authorities have announced in a series of measures...
SANTOS (AP): Over decades, adoring fans around the world mailed thousands of letters, postcards and packages to the sports legend without his address or full name. Almost without fail, they reached the office of Edson Arantes do Nascimento in the...
