SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — About 100 people were injured and an unspecified number were feared dead after being crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital Seoul, South Korean...
Jerry Lee Lewis, the untameable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On” and sustained...
LONDON (AP): Northern Ireland’s political deadlock deepened on Friday when the U.K. government delayed calling an early election for the Belfast-based Assembly after a deadline to restore the mothballed administration expired. The limbo means more...
GOMA (AP): Renewed clashes between government soldiers and M23 rebels in eastern Congo forced more people from their homes Friday, deepening a crisis that the UN says already displaced 40,000 in a week’s time. The clashes that started at around 5 a...
BEIJING (AP): China’s largest city of Shanghai is ordering mass testing on Friday of all 1.3 million residents of its downtown Yangpu district and confining them to their homes at least until results are known. The demand is an echo of measures...
GENEVA (AP): The UN’s refugee agency said on Friday that destruction from flooding has displaced more than 3.4 million people in west and central Africa. UNHCR said on Friday that Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade have killed hundreds, displaced 1...
HAVANA (AP): When Hurricane Ian tore through western Cuba in late September, causing an islandwide blackout, it left the government grappling with a deepening energy crisis and simmering discontent among Cubans. It also once again thrust the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Some 96,000 people have fled their homes in Haiti’s capital, the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday as the country faces a crisis that has prompted the government to request the immediate...
PARIS, France (CMC): Caribbean food and drink brands stood out from the crowd at the recently concluded international tradeshow SIAL Paris 2022, which attracted importers, buyers, distributors, and retailers from around the world, with premium...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Relentless Russian attacks on energy infrastructure prompted Ukrainian authorities on Friday to announce worsening blackouts around the country's largest cities, with Kyiv's mayor warning that the capital's...
COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains swamped a southern Philippine province, killing at least 42 people, leaving 16 others missing and trapping some residents on their roofs, officials said...
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nation's refugee agency said Friday that destruction from flooding has displaced more than 3.4 million people in west and central Africa. UNHCR said Friday that Nigeria's worst floods in a decade have killed...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked and severely beaten by an assailant with a hammer who broke into their San Francisco home early Friday, according to people familiar with the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Women’s rights groups in South Africa expressed outrage Thursday and criticised police for perceived failures after charges were dropped against 14 men accused of gang raping and robbing female members of a film crew at an...
MOSCOW (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied having any intentions of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine but described the conflict there as part of alleged efforts by the West to secure its global domination, which he insisted...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Authorities said Thursday the massacre of 20 townspeople in southern Mexico appears to have been the work of a drug lord who used social media to try to blame a rival gang. The new revelations illustrate how Mexican drug cartels...
BEIJING (AP): The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first. The vaccine, a mist that is sucked in through the mouth, is being offered for free as a booster dose...
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials are warning residents of the Big Island that the world's largest active volcano, Mauna Loa, is sending signals that it may erupt. Scientists say an eruption isn't imminent, but they are on alert...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied having any intentions of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine but described the conflict there as part of alleged efforts by the West to secure its global domination, which he...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US economy grew at a 2.6 per cent annual rate from July through September, snapping two straight quarters of contraction and overcoming high inflation and interest rates just as voting begins in midterm elections in...
GENEVA (AP) — The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report issued Thursday by the World Health Organization. The WHO said more than 10...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar will drop most of its coronavirus restrictions beginning November 1, just before it hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Qatar's Health Ministry made the announcement Wednesday. In a statement, it said...
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambian lawmakers on Wednesday urged compensation for the families of 70 children who authorities believe may have died after taking a contaminated cough syrup imported from India. The special legislative session was...
LONDON (AP): As he makes tough decisions to stem Britain’s economic crisis, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will “always protect the most vulnerable”. But the UK’s first prime minister of colour is also its richest-ever leader – an ex-banker who...
PANAMA CITY (AP): With dashed dreams and empty hands, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants are stranded in Panama’s capital looking for a way home after surviving the crossing of the Darien Gap only to find that a United States policy change had closed...
