CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Juan Guaidó has been the face of Venezuelans' efforts to restore their democracy since he took to the streets to challenge the rule of President Nicolás Maduro in early 2019. But the 39-year-old...
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Governor Doug Ducey will take down a makeshift wall made of shipping containers at the Mexico border, settling a lawsuit and political tussle with the US government over trespassing on federal lands. The Biden...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis warned Vatican bureaucrats on Thursday to beware the devil that lurks among them, saying it is an “elegant demon” that works in people who have a rigid, holier-than-thou way of living the Catholic...
BERLIN (AP): The Swiss government on Wednesday rejected the idea of introducing a third gender option or no-gender option for official records, a position which differs from that of some neighbouring countries. Responding to two proposals from...
KABUL (AP): Taliban security forces in the Afghan capital on Wednesday enforced a higher-education ban for women by blocking their access to universities, with video obtained by AP showing women weeping and consoling each other outside one campus...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry says he hopes the international community will agree to a request for a multinational support force to assist the Haitian National Police (PNH) restore peace and security in the French-speaking...
TORONTO (AP): Eight teenage girls who apparently met on social media have been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 59-year-old man in Toronto, police said Tuesday. Investigators allege that the girls assaulted and stabbed...
FLORIDA (CMC): The United States Coast Guard said on Tuesday that it had repatriated 110 Haitian migrants following two recent interdictions off Florida’s coast. The migrants had been held on two overloaded sailing vessels that were intercepted...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid a defiant wartime visit to Washington on Wednesday to thank US leaders and “ordinary Americans” for their support in fighting off Russia's invasion and to press...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried told a Bahamian court Wednesday that he has agreed to be extradited to the US to face criminal charges related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The former FTX CEO appeared at a Magistrate's...
SEOUL (AP): The United States flew nuclear-capable bombers and advanced stealth jets in a show of force against North Korea on Tuesday, as the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un derided doubts about her country’s military and...
BERLIN (AP): A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. Irmgard Furchner...
KABUL (AP): Female students have been banned from private and public universities in Afghanistan effective immediately and until further notice, a Taliban government spokesman said Tuesday in the latest edict cracking down on women’s rights and...
EL PASO, Texas (AP): Suspense mounted at the US border with Mexico on Tuesday about the future of restrictions on asylum-seekers as the Supreme Court issued a temporary order to keep pandemic-era limits on migrants in place. Conservative-leaning...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A parade to celebrate the Argentine World Cup champions was abruptly called off Tuesday as millions of people poured onto thoroughfares, highways and overpasses in a chaotic attempt to catch a glimpse of the...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former Texas police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019 was sentenced on Tuesday to 11 years and 10 months in prison for his manslaughter conviction. Aaron...
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Suspense mounted at the US border with Mexico on Tuesday about the future of restrictions on asylum-seekers as the Supreme Court issued a temporary order to keep pandemic-era limits on migrants in place....
NEW YORK (AP) — Support for former US president Donald Trump appears to have waned among members of the Republican Party following the January 6 House committee vote to recommend the Justice Department bring criminal charges...
WASHINGTON (AP): The United States House January 6 committee urged the Justice Department on Monday to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump for the violent 2021 Capitol insurrection, calling for accountability for the former president and “a...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): Founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, reappeared in court here on Monday but was sent back to jail after not waiving his right to an extradition hearing as it had been widely reported he would have...
LONDON (AP): Britain’s High Court ruled on Monday that a plan to send asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal, but the government must consider the circumstances of each case before deporting anyone, a judgment that sets the...
VATICAN CITY (AP): The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion US priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media”, as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop, who repeatedly told him to stop his...
WASHINGTON (AP): Long before the bobbleheads and the ‘Fauci ouchie’, Dr Anthony Fauci was a straight-shooter about scary diseases – and “stick with the science” remains his mantra. Fauci steps down from a five-decade career in public service at the...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologised on Monday on behalf of his government for the Netherlands’ role in slavery and the slave trade, in a speech welcomed by activists as historic but lacking in concrete plans for...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was found guilty today of rape at a Los Angeles trial in another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement. After deliberating for nine days spanning more than two...
