Published:Wednesday | November 23, 2022 | 12:14 AM
CIANJUR (AP): Enjot was tending his cows in the hills near his home when the earth shook. The 5.6 magnitude earthquake killed at least 268 people, including 11 of Enjot’s family members. His sister-in-law and her two children were hurt, among the...
Published:Wednesday | November 23, 2022 | 12:13 AM
WASHINGTON (CMC): Canada is providing CAD$15 million towards a Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) initiative to increase vaccine production capacities in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Canada is pleased to support PAHO’s innovative work to...
Published:Wednesday | November 23, 2022 | 12:05 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Former Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is demanding an apology from Canada after the country linked him to “the egregious conduct of Haitian political elites who provide illicit financial and operational support to armed gangs...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is contesting his defeat in the October election and calling on the electoral authority to annul votes cast on most of the nation's electronic voting machines, citing a software...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the imminent handover of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to a congressional committee after a three-year legal fight. The court, without comment,...
Hobbled by high interest rates, punishing inflation, and Russia's war against Ukraine, the world economy is expected to eke out only modest growth this year and to expand even more tepidly in 2023. That was the sobering forecast issued...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Secretary General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Stephen Twigg, on Monday said Barbados’ decision to become a republic had prompted “a lot of discussion around the future of the Commonwealth”. Twigg, a former...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AP): Given an energy crisis in Europe and progress made in helping climate victims, the new climate chief for the United Nations says he’ll settle for a lack of new emissions-cutting action coming out of the now-concluded climate...
CIANJUR (AP): A powerful earthquake killed at least 162 people and injured hundreds on Indonesia’s main island on Monday. Terrified residents fled into the streets, some covered in blood and debris. Many of the dead were public-school students who...
OTTAWA, (CMC): Three Haitian politicians have been slapped with sanctions imposed by the Canadian government. Ottawa has accused those sanctioned of aiding gang leaders and laundering their illicit earnings. “These individuals are using their...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden is sending federal aid to western New York to help state and local authorities clean up from the massive storm that dumped as much as six feet of snow in western and northern New York, the White House...
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A small plane crashed Monday in a neighbourhood in the central Colombian city of Medellín, killing eight people on board, airport authorities said. No injuries were immediately reported on the ground....
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou locked down its largest district Monday as it tries to tamp down a major COVID-19 outbreak, suspending public transit and requiring residents to present a negative test if...
CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — A strong, shallow earthquake toppled buildings and collapsed walls on Indonesia's densely populated main island of Java on Monday, killing at least 56 and injuring hundreds as people rushed into the streets, some...
ASTI (AP): Pope Francis honoured his northern Italian roots on Sunday by celebrating a special Mass in his father’s hometown and encouraging younger generations to not be indifferent to the poverty and misery all around them. Thousands of people...
MASAKHANE (AP): Living in the shadow of one of South Africa’s largest coal-fired power stations, residents of Masakhane fear job losses if the facility is closed as the country moves to cleaner energy. A significant polluter because it relies on...
AP: For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is inflicting on poor countries, but they finished marathon climate talks on Sunday without further addressing the root cause of those...
ROSEAU (CMC): Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is among six candidates of the ruling Dominica Labour Party (DLP) who will not face the electorate on December 6 when the country votes for a new government in a snap general election....
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A LATAM Airlines plane taking off from Lima’s international airport struck a firetruck on the runway and caught fire Friday. Authorities said the plane’s passengers and crew were all safe, but two firefighters...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel on Friday to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump's...
A federal judge on Friday sentenced disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to more than 11 years in prison for duping investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionise blood testing but instead made her a symbol of Silicon Valley...
JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — Twenty-one victims of a fire that tore through a top-floor apartment in the Gaza Strip during a birthday party were members of the same family, two of their relatives said Friday. Thousands later...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the US...
Airline lawyers and the Justice Department delivered starkly contrasting views of an alliance between American Airlines and JetBlue during closing arguments Friday in a case that will test the Biden administration's aggressive enforcement of...
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The sale of all beer with alcohol at the eight World Cup stadiums was banned Friday, only two days before the football tournament is set to start. Non-alcoholic beer will still be sold at the 64 matches in the country....
