WASHINGTON (AP): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, making way for a new generation to steer the party after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): Bill Gates, on a visit to Kenya, has announced that his foundation will spend $7 billion to improve health, gender equality and farming in Africa. The new pledge will be spent over the next four years and is in addition to...
MONTREAL (AP): A Canadian man has been charged with planning a terrorist act to overthrow the Haitian government of the late Jovenel Moïse, authorities said Thursday. Gérald Nicolas, 51, will appear at the Quebec City courthouse on December 1 to...
WASHINGTON, DC (PAHO): With an increase in COVID-19 infections in the region, seasonal influenza on the rise, and a spike in cases of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) director, Carissa F. Etienne,...
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court on Thursday convicted three men of murder for their role in shooting down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with a Russian surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people aboard the aircraft...
LONDON (AP) — Millions of British people face higher taxes and steeper energy bills after the government announced an emergency budget on Thursday aimed at restoring the country's economic credibility and shoring up its battered public...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian airstrikes targeted Ukraine's energy facilities again Thursday as the first snow of the season fell in Kyiv, a harbinger of the hardship to come if Moscow's missiles continue to take out power and gas...
SAN JUAN (AP): A dozen Haitian migrants who spent five days on a tiny, uninhabited island near Puerto Rico where human smugglers abandoned them were rescued, the US Coast Guard said on Wednesday. A small campfire that the group built on Monito...
SAN DIEGO (AP): A federal judge on Wednesday granted the Biden administration a five-week delay to end far-reaching asylum restrictions, writing in upper-case letters that he was doing so “WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE”. US District Judge Emmet Sullivan...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (AP): With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them faster than agreements are coming out of them, negotiators at the UN climate summit were in a difficult spot on Wednesday. Talks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh got off...
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that he expects the first doses of the Ebola vaccine targeting the strain behind an outbreak in Uganda to arrive in the country next week. WHO Director-General Tedros...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans won control of the US House on Wednesday, returning the party to power in Washington and giving conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe Biden's agenda and spur a flurry of investigations. But a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Customs officers at New York's Kennedy International Airport seized $450,000 worth of cocaine from a traveller who was smuggling the drugs in the wheels of her wheelchair, federal authorities announced. The bust happened...
WHITTIER, California (AP) — A vehicle that struck 22 Los Angeles County sheriff's recruits on a training run around dawn Wednesday, critically injuring at least five of them, was travelling on the wrong side of the road just before the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — NASA's new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Wednesday, bringing the US a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time...
PRZEWODOW, Poland (AP) — NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance both said Wednesday a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people did not appear to be an intentional attack, and that air defences in neigh boring...
Published:Wednesday | November 16, 2022 | 12:11 AM
ATLANTA (AP): A judge overturned Georgia’s ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling on Tuesday that it violated the US Constitution and US Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted and was therefore void. Fulton County...
Published:Wednesday | November 16, 2022 | 12:11 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti, and experts warn that the situation could worsen now that the country is bustling ,following the end of a paralysing fuel blockade that lasted two months. Dr Jeanty Fils, a spokesman for...
Published:Wednesday | November 16, 2022 | 12:07 AM
PALM BEACH (AP) : Former United States President Donald Trump is preparing to launch his third campaign for the White House on Tuesday, looking to move on from disappointing midterm defeats and defy history amid signs that his grip on the...
PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will mount a third White House campaign, launching an early start to the 2024 contest. The announcement comes just a week after an underwhelming midterm showing for...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday it would back proposed federal legislation to safeguard same-sex marriages, marking the latest show of support for the measure from conservative-leaning groups...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The judge at the Los Angeles trial of Harvey Weinstein dropped four of the 11 sexual assault charges against the movie mogul Tuesday after prosecutors said they would not proceed with the counts involving one of...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior US intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people. Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller did not immediately confirm the information, but said top leaders were...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level rose eight per cent in October from a year ago, the fourth straight decline in the rate of increase and the latest sign that inflation pressures in the United States are easing from...
NUSA DUA (AP): United States President Joe Biden objected to China’s “coercive and increasingly aggressive actions” towards Taiwan during the first in-person meeting of his presidency with Xi Jinping, as the two superpower leaders on Monday aimed...
