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Philadelphia apologises for experiments on black inmates

Published:Friday | October 7, 2022 | 10:51 AM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical medical experiments performed on mostly black inmates at its Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s through the 1970s. The move comes after community...

Thais mourn dozens, mainly kids, killed in daycare attack

Published:Friday | October 7, 2022 | 10:26 AM

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Relatives wailed and collapsed in grief before the small coffins of children Friday after a fired police officer stormed a rural Thai daycare centre at naptime and massacred dozens of people. Thailand's...

Respect due to King Charles III – Gonsalves

Published:Friday | October 7, 2022 | 12:10 AM

KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says his opposition to the British monarchy as sovereign of St Vincent and the Grenadines does not mean that he should disrespect King Charles III. He made the point as he responded to opposition...

Former cop attacks daycare centre, kills at least 36

Published:Friday | October 7, 2022 | 12:10 AM

UTHAI SAWAN (AP): A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a daycare centre in Thailand yesterday, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled. At least 36 people were slain in the deadliest...

Babies in Tigray dying at four times pre-war levels, study says

Published:Friday | October 7, 2022 | 12:06 AM

NAIROBI (AP): Babies in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over five million people, according to the most sweeping study yet of...

Breaking point: Economy tanks and violence soars

Published:Thursday | October 6, 2022 | 12:07 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Daily life in Haiti began to spin out of control last month just hours after Prime Minister Ariel Henry said fuel subsidies would be eliminated, causing prices to double. Gunshots rang out as protesters blocked roads with iron...

State, cops seek to bar evidence in trial over George Floyd killing

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 4:40 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors and defence attorneys for two former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd have filed more than 100 motions to limit testimony or evidence at trial — with many...

WTO predicts trade growth to slow next year amid crises

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 2:20 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization is predicting global trade volumes will grow a lackluster 1% next year as crises and challenges weigh on markets, including high energy prices, rising interest rates and uncertainties about...

Seoul’s reprisal blows up after North Korean missile success

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 11:14 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A malfunctioning South Korean ballistic missile blew up as it plowed into the ground Wednesday during a live-fire drill with the United States that was a reprisal for North Korea's successful launch a...

Musk says he wants Twitter again and will pay US$44B price

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 10:56 AM

Elon Musk wants Twitter again — and Twitter is game. The billionaire Tesla CEO has proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion, bringing the tumultuous, monthslong saga another step closer to a...

Nobel Prize for three chemists who made molecules ‘click’

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 6:41 AM

Three scientists were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to design better medicines.

Three physicists share Nobel Prize for work on quantum science

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 12:10 AM

Three scientists jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for proving that tiny particles could retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon once doubted but now being explored for potential real-world...

Bolsonaro, Lula start fight for support before runoff

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 12:10 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, two diametrically opposed candidates for Brazil’s presidency, have started a four-week race to pursue votes ahead of a winner-take-all runoff. After garnering more than 90 per cent...

Retreating Russians leave their comrades’ bodies behind

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 12:09 AM

LYMAN (AP): Russian troops abandoned a key Ukrainian city so rapidly that they left the bodies of their comrades in the streets, offering more evidence Tuesday of Moscow’s latest military defeat as it struggles to hang on to four regions of Ukraine...

President fires military son after offensive tweets

Published:Wednesday | October 5, 2022 | 12:08 AM

KAMPALA (AP): Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his son as commander of the nation’s infantry forces Tuesday after the son tweeted an unprovoked threat to capture the capital of neighbouring Kenya, drawing widespread concern in East Africa....

Iran’s president tries to assuage anger as protests continue

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2022 | 3:05 PM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday appealed for national unity and tried to allay anger against the country's rulers, even as the anti-government protests that have engulfed the country for weeks...

Poland demands $1.3 trillion in war reparations from Germany

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2022 | 2:50 PM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's foreign minister on Monday signed an official note to Germany requesting the payment of about $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II. Zbigniew Rau...

Ex-judge opens COVID inquiry into UK handling of pandemic

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2022 | 12:02 PM

LONDON (AP) — A retired judge opened a public inquiry on Tuesday into how Britain handled the coronavirus pandemic, saying bereaved families and those who suffered would be at the heart of the proceedings. Former Court of Appeal judge Heather...

Kim Kardashian fined US$1 million by SEC over crypto promotion

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2022 | 11:52 AM

The long list of celebrities promoting cryptocurrencies just got shorter. Kim Kardashian is being barred from doing so for three years — and will pay a US$1 million fine -- to settle federal charges that she recommended a crypto security to...

In Ian’s wake, Florida residents brave a slow wait for power

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2022 | 10:25 AM

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Nearly a week after Hurricane Ian smashed into Florida and carved a path of destruction into the Carolinas, hundreds of thousands of people faced another warm day without electricity Tuesday as rescuers...

Police chief, others removed over soccer disaster

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2022 | 12:08 AM

MALANG (AP): An Indonesian police chief and nine elite officers were removed from their posts on Monday, and 18 others were being investigated for responsibility in the firing of tear gas inside a soccer stadium that set off a stampede, killing at...

UN chief: World is in ‘life-or-death struggle’ for survival

Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2022 | 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (AP): UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that the world is in “a life-or-death struggle” for survival as “ climate chaos gallops ahead” and accused the world’s 20 wealthiest countries of failing to do enough to stop the...

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