LONDON (AP): Harmeet Singh Gill was excited to hear that Rishi Sunak would become Britain’s first prime minister of colour – news that came as he celebrated the Diwali festival in a London neighbourhood sometimes called Little India. “It’s almost a...
SANTA CLARA (AP): Serious, standing upright and dressed in long gala dresses – despite the midday Cuban heat – Lisset and Liusba quietly walk up the 10 steps of the notary office, their hands clenched and shaking. Less than a few feet ahead walk...
MUKONO (AP): A fire at a boarding school for blind students killed 11 children in a rural community just outside Uganda’s capital, Kampala, the school’s administrator and police said Tuesday. “One of our dormitories caught fire and burnt at around...
SAN JUAN (AP): A well-known Haitian journalist survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday that left his car riddled with bullets in the capital of Port-au-Prince, officials said. Roberson Alphonse, who works at the daily newspaper Le Nouvelliste...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A tropical storm that lashed Bangladesh left at least 24 people dead and about eight million without power across the delta nation, officials and news reports said Tuesday. The government said about 10,000 homes were...
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism and first-degree murder in a Michigan school shooting that killed four students and may be called to testify against his parents, who've been jailed on...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP): Another long and painful trial over the killing of George Floyd was averted on Monday after one former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty to manslaughter and another agreed to take a more uncommon approach and let a judge...
LONDON (AP): Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain’s first prime minister of colour after being chosen on Monday to lead a governing Conservative Party desperate for a safe pair of hands to guide the country through economic...
MIAMI (AP): The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on President Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian rule in Nicaragua, threatening a ban on Americans from doing business in the nation’s gold industry, raising the possibility of trade...
ABUJA (AP): Residents in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, were on high alert and avoided some places on Monday, a day after the United States and the United Kingdom issued terror alerts about possible attacks in the city. The Department of State...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A gunman broke into a St Louis high school Monday morning, fatally shooting a woman and a teenage girl and injuring six others before police killed him in an exchange of gunfire. The shooting just after 9 a.m. at Central...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Monday to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd just as jury selection was about to begin. Another former officer waived...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America's children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national...
LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak has won the race to be the leader of the Conservative Party and will become Britain's next prime minister — the third this year. The former Treasury chief will be Britain's first leader of colour, and...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Korean Air plane overshot the runway while landing in bad weather in the central Philippines late Sunday, but authorities said all 173 people on board were safe. The airport on Mactan Island in Cebu province was...
LONDON (AP): Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Sunday he will not run to lead the Conservative Party, ending a short-lived attempt to return to the prime minister’s job he was ousted from little more than three months ago....
BEIJING (AP): President Xi Jinping, China’s most powerful leader in decades, increased his dominance Sunday when he was named to another term as head of the ruling Communist Party in a break with tradition and promoted allies who support his...
DUBAI, (AP): Iran’s atomic energy agency alleged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of an unidentified foreign country broke into a subsidiary’s network and had free access to its email system. An anonymous hacking group claimed...
CAIRO (AP): On his return home from the UN General Assembly this year, Sudan’s top general descended an airplane stairway in the country’s capital to a flurry of cameras. Waiting to greet General Abdel-Fattah Burhan with a smile and handshake was...
SAN DIEGO (AP): A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to US Customs and Border Protection. The year-end numbers...
LISBON (AP) When the United Kingdom walked out of the European Union (EU) two years ago, Brexit supporters believed British pragmatism and common sense would not only see them through but also allow their country to flourish as it stood alone....
WASHINGTON (AP) The House committee investigating the January-6 attack on the U.S. Capitol formally issued its extraordinary subpoena to Donald Trump on Friday, demanding testimony from the former president who lawmakers say “personally...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and key Western allies accused Russia on Friday of using Iranian drones to attack civilians and power plants in Ukraine in violation of a 2015 United Nations Security Council resolution and...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court late Friday issued an administrative stay temporarily blocking President Joe Biden's plan to cancel billions of dollars in federal student loans, throwing the program into limbo just days after...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment on Friday that trims the powers of the president, a key demand of protesters who are seeking political reforms and solutions to the country'...
