KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country's president called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark and make...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Thousands across Haiti organised protests on Monday demanding the prime minister’s resignation as the country commemorated the death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a slave who became the leader of the world’s first Black republic...
BAGHDAD (AP): Singers, actors, sports stars – the list goes on. Iranian celebrities have been startlingly public in their support for the massive anti-government protests shaking their country. And the ruling establishment is lashing back....
ABUJA (AP): Gunmen attacked a church in north-central Nigeria during a service, killing a woman and her young daughter, a government official said Monday as the hunt for the suspects intensified. The motorcycle-riding assailants arrived at the...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): The US and Canada sent armored vehicles and other supplies to Haiti on Saturday to help police fight a powerful gang amid a pending request from the Haitian government for the immediate deployment of foreign troops. A US...
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom's new Treasury chief ripped up the government's economic plan on Monday, dramatically reversing most of the tax cuts and spending plans that new Prime Minister Liz Truss ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine's capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze and tearing a hole in one of them. People scurried for shelter or tried to shoot down the kamikazes. The concentrated...
WASHINGTON (AP): Two years ago, candidate Joe Biden loudly denounced President Donald Trump for immigration policies that inflicted “cruelty and exclusion at every turn”, including towards those fleeing the “brutal” government of Nicolás Maduro...
LONDON (AP): When Liz Truss was running to lead Britain this summer, an ally predicted her first weeks in office would be turbulent. But few were prepared for the scale of the sound and fury – least of all Truss herself. In just six weeks, the...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law legislation criminalising some Internet activity despite concerns the law could be used to silence legitimate criticism. The bill, passed by the legislature in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through January 11 as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter. The decision comes as the pandemic has...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud has written social media giants Facebook and Twitter asking that false maps of Guyana posted by pro-Venezuelan interests be removed from the social media platforms. According to a statement issued...
ANKARA (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday doubled down on his proposal to turn Turkey into a gas hub for Europe, after deliveries to Germany through the Baltic Sea’s Nord Stream pipeline were halted. Putin floated the idea of...
LONDON (AP): Britain’s Treasury chief on Thursday rejected suggestions that the Conservative government would reverse course on economic plans that have roiled financial markets, even after Prime Minister Liz Truss faced widespread criticism from...
(AP) : The United Nations said on Wednesday that almost three-quarters of the six million Venezuelan migrants currently in Latin America do not have adequate food, shelter, employment or medical care. The UN’s International Organization for...
NOORIABAD, Pakistan (AP) — At least 18 Pakistani flood survivors, including eight children and nine women, were killed when the bus they were travelling in caught fire, police said Thursday. Police officer Hashim Brohi said the bus was taking...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The January 6 Committee of the United States House of Representatives has subpoenaed Donald Trump for his testimony about the 2021 Capitol attack. The panel voted unanimously to compel the former president to appear. “...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has suspended a controversial priest who has advised parishioners to carry guns to fight off drug cartels. Better known as “Father Pistolas,” Reverend Alfredo Gallegos is a...
GENEVA (AP) — FIFA wants to help workers in Qatar get compensation for being injured while building projects for the World Cup, one of the football body's top officials told European lawmakers on Thursday. Football federations in Europe...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury spared Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz from the death penalty Thursday for killing 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018, sending him to prison for the remainder of his life in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning that inflation threatens to become “a runaway train,” the managing director of the International Monetary Fund urged policymakers to keep up the fight against rising prices even if it means more pain at a...
BRUSSELS (AP): NATO defence ministers met on Wednesday as its member countries face the twin challenges of struggling to make and supply weapons to Ukraine while protecting vital European infrastructure like pipelines or cables that Russia might...
DAKAR (AP): A new liquefied natural gas project off Africa’s western coast may only be 80 per cent complete, but already the prospect of a new energy supplier has drawn visits from the leaders of Poland and Germany. The initial field near Senegal...
(AP): The prime minister of The Bahamas has announced an increase in the islands’ minimum wage and temporary price controls on certain goods, including eggs, bread and diapers, amid a spike in inflation. The minimum wage will increase from US$210...
CARACAS (AP): Rescuers worked to clear rocks and mud from the streets of a north-central city in Venezuela on Tuesday, three days after it was hit by a massive and deadly landslide, and expanded their search for any bodies buried under the sludge....
