SAN JUAN (AP): A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ban on US commercial flights to Haiti’s capital that expired Monday has been extended to March 7, 2026 because of the risk that powerful gangs might attack flights with drones and small arms....
ATLACOMULCO, Mexico (AP) — A freight train sheared a double-decker bus in half at a crossing northwest of Mexico City on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55, authorities said. The accident took place in an industrial area of...
One of two unnamed lottery winners bought a ticket worth $893.5 million from a QuikTrip gas station in north St Louis County, Missouri, lottery officials announced Monday. The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 61 and 62 with a Powerball number of...
MUMBAI (AP): Indians marked the final day of the Ganesh Chaturthi, a vibrant, 10-day Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Ganesh, revered as the remover of obstacles and god of wisdom, prosperity and new beginnings. At the end of the...
KATHMANDU (AP): Trishna Shakya, eight, looks imposing in her finery as she is carried high in the arms of a helper from the temple palace. As she rides a chariot bedecked in garlands of brilliant orange marigolds, a crowd of devotees lifts their...
NEW YORK (AP) : Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call centre agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information, and the notes he had to physically write for...
ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic (AP): Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a US government ship searching for...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine, particularly while its invasion was still ongoing, would be considered “legitimate targets” by Moscow’s forces. Putin’s comments came hours after European...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP): A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday. The accident occurred near the town of Wellawaya...
LONDON (AP): The United Kingdom (UK) deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, resigned Friday after an independent inquiry found that she fell short of the standards expected of government ministers over a tax error on a recent house purchase. Rayner...
CARACAS (AP): María Alejandra Rubio hasn’t seen her son in five months. They were separated in the United States when she was detained to be deported to her native Venezuela and he was sent to live with a family friend. Rubio said US immigration...
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA (AP): Some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles, according to a Homeland Security official. Steven Schrank, special...
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to cut the engines of a passenger flight in 2023 while riding off-duty in the cockpit pleaded guilty or no-contest to all charges against him Friday, saying in court that he...
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government says it will no longer allow Haitian nationals into the country for the purpose of applying for a visa to visit the United States. A brief statement from the Office of the Prime Minister noted that...
MUZAFFARGARH : Rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours, officials said Thursday. The latest evacuations bring the total number...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The United States and Panama are urging the UN Security Council to authorise a 5,550-member force with the power to detain gang members in Haiti to help stop the escalating violence. The two countries outlined their proposal to...
LA PAZ (AP): A former Bolivian interior minister was deported late Wednesday from Florida to Bolivia, where authorities say he faces charges ranging from breach of duty for illegally importing weapons, to crimes against humanity for overseeing a...
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC): Governor Daniel Pruce has described gun crime as one of the most pressing security concerns facing the territory and said it must be addressed with urgency. Speaking during a recent press conference, Pruce...
DAKAR (AP): Congo’s health ministry on Thursday announced a new Ebola outbreak, the 16th in the central African country, after a case was confirmed in the southern Kasai province. “To date, the provisional report shows 28 suspected cases and 15...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP): Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, a long-time cornerstone of public health policy for keeping schoolchildren and adults safe from infectious diseases. State Surgeon General Dr Joseph...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): OFFICERS from the Immigration Investigative Unit say they recently detained 25 Venezuelans in yet another operation in South Trinidad. The detained people, comprising 23 females and two males, were held at a once popular...
NAIROB (AP): Exhumations at a site near where the bodies of more than 400 followers of a doomsday cult were found two years ago have been suspended so that DNA samples collected can be analysed, authorities in Kenya said Wednesday. The latest...
LISBON, Portugal (AP): An electric streetcar that is one of Lisbon’s landmarks and a big draw for tourists derailed Wednesday, killing 15 people and injuring 18 others, emergency services said. Five of the injured are in serious condition, and a...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (AP): Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar praised a US strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean and said that all traffickers should be killed “violently”. US President Donald...
Published:Wednesday | September 3, 2025 | 12:10 AM
CAPE TOWN, (AP): Five men deported by the United States to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison in the African nation for seven weeks without charge or explanation and with no access to legal counsel, their lawyers said on...
