KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves on Monday proposed a single-item referendum asking the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines to decide whether or not to replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth with a non-executive, home-grown...
CAIRO (AP): Russia’s top diplomat was in Cairo for talks on Sunday with Egyptian officials as his country seeks to break the diplomatic isolation and sanctions by the West over its invasion of Ukraine. Sergey Lavrov landed in Cairo late on Saturday...
MASKWACIS (AP): Pope Francis issued a historic apology on Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society...
(AP): The authorities in The Bahamas combed shorelines and open waters on Monday in hopes of finding more survivors after a boat carrying up to an estimated 60 Haitian migrants apparently capsized. Divers have found the bodies of 15 women, one man...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration today announced plans to replant trees on millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation's forests from wildfires, insects...
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations struggled Monday to find common ground on how to wean the bloc off its reliance on Russian natural gas, seeking to appease wary, stressed consumers at home while upholding unity as Moscow turns down...
MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — Pope Francis has apologised for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's “devastating” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A human rights group said Sunday it had filed a criminal complaint with Singapore's attorney general to seek the arrest of Sri Lanka's former president for alleged war crimes during his country's civil...
PUTNAM, Connecticut (AP): Even as numerous Republican-governed states push for sweeping bans on abortion, there is a coinciding surge of concern in some Democratic-led states that options for reproductive healthcare are dwindling due to expansion...
(AP): When Pope Francis apologises to Indigenous groups on Canadian soil this week, he will make another effort toward healing harms inflicted at church-run residential schools – and add to the Catholic Church’s growing ledger of atonement for past...
BEIJING (AP): China on Sunday launched one of two laboratory modules to complete its permanent orbiting space station. The Wentian was launched from tropical Hainan Island with a large crowd of amateur photographers and space enthusiasts watching....
KAMPALA (AP): More than 50 million people across the East African region are expected to face acute food insecurity this year, a regional bloc said Friday, warning that some 300,000 in Somalia and South Sudan are projected to be under full-blown...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): A raid of Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of favelas that left at least 18 people dead has sparked renewed complaints of excessive police violence and ignited debate over how to handle crime ahead of state and presidential...
MEXICO CITY (AP): One of Nicaragua’s leading national newspapers announced Thursday on its website that its staff had been forced to flee the country and would continue working from outside Nicaragua. Nicaraguan authorities took control of La...
ISTANBUL (AP): Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way for exporting millions of tons of desperately needed Ukrainian grain – as well as Russian grain and fertiliser – ending a...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — More than 50 million people across the East African region are expected to face acute food insecurity this year, a regional bloc said Friday, warning that some 300,000 in Somalia and South Sudan are projected to be...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritises deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk. The court's order ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way for exporting millions of tonnes of desperately needed Ukrainian grain — as well as Russian grain and fertiliser...
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry can take the British government to court over his security arrangements in the United Kingdom, a judge in London ruled Friday. Harry and his wife Meghan lost publicly funded UK police protection when they stepped...
LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency said Friday that the smallpox vaccine made by Bavarian Nordic should also be authorised against monkeypox, as the outbreak of the once-rare disease continues to sicken people across the continent....
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and went into isolation with mild symptoms. White House officials went all-out to show that the 79-year-old leader could power through the virus and keep...
COLOMBO (AP): Sri Lankan lawmakers on Wednesday elected the unpopular prime minister as their new president, a choice that risked reigniting turmoil in the South Asian nation reeling from economic collapse and months of round-the-clock protests....
LONDON (AP): As the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergency committee convened on Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, some scientists said the striking differences between the...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The Grenada government on Tuesday denied social media reports that it had appointed an ambassador-at-large to Nigeria, as well as for staging an investment summit with the African country. “I am not aware of any investment summit...
PARAMARIBO (CMC): The organisers of protest action against the policies of the government of President Chandrikapersad Santokhi have promised to step up their activities this weekend in a bid to force the administration to meet their demands. “...
