ROME (AP) — Several hundred flights were cancelled in Italy on Sunday, a peak vacation travel day, because of four-hour walkouts involving employees of low-cost airlines as well as air traffic controllers. A union official, Fabrizio Cuscito,...
LONDON (AP) — The candidates to become the next British prime minister burnished their right-wing credentials Sunday, as they looked to remain in the race to succeed Boris Johnson. Many of the five remaining hopefuls highlighted issues linked...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers met Saturday to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by the president who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse. A...
Two children are among the six people who died in a Montana pileup after a Friday evening dust storm caused blackout conditions on Interstate 90, a major route in both Montana and the Western United States. Montana Highway Patrol Sergeant Jay...
LONDON (AP) — The British government held an emergency response meeting Saturday to plan for record high temperatures next week after weather authorities issued their first-ever “red” warning for extreme heat. The alert covers...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk fired back Friday at Twitter's lawsuit seeking to force him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the platform, according to multiple news reports. In a filing with the Delaware Court of...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Barbados government on Thursday announced a raft of new measures aimed at easing the burden on citizens as they deal with the increased cost of living occasioned by various global situations, including significant increases in...
HAMILTON (CMC): Premier David Burt unveiled a US$15-million economic relief package in Parliament on Friday to help Bermuda’s working families hit by rising prices. Burt, who is also minister of finance, said financial support will be given to...
COLOMBO (AP): Sri Lanka’s prime minister was sworn in on Friday as interim president until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic collapse. Lawmakers were...
LONDON (AP): A top contender to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused opponents of “mudslinging” as the Conservative Party leadership contest ended a bruising first week on Friday with five candidates remaining. Penny Mordaunt, a...
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was exonerated last year in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X has filed a $40 million lawsuit against New York City for the two decades he spent in prison for a notorious crime he did not commit. Lawyers...
LONDON (AP) — British authorities issued their first ever “red” warning for extreme heat early next week, declaring a national emergency as forecasters predict record temperatures that will put even healthy people at risk of...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A mudslide smashed into a rural elementary school in the mountains south of Medellin on Thursday, killing three young children after heavy rains washed over Colombia's north and west, authorities said. Officials in...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's prime minister was sworn in Friday as interim president until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country's economic...
CMC: The United States is “strongly encouraging” international partners to consider contributing to the United Nations security basket fund, or increasing support, to combat insecurity in Haiti. Earlier this week, the US as well as 17...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 rattled Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday afternoon, the Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI) has reported. It said that the...
VINNYTSIA (AP): Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine’s president alleged that the attack deliberately targeted civilians in...
GENEVA (AP): The number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide rose for the fifth week in a row while the number of deaths remained relatively stable, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. In the UN health agency’s weekly...
LONDON (AP): London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has opened an investigation into four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah’s revelation that he was trafficked to the UK as a child. The enquiry comes after Farah, 39, said in a documentary that a...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Protesters retreated from government buildings Thursday in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country, and the embattled president at last emailed the resignation that demonstrators have...
LONDON (AP) — London's Metropolitan Police Service has opened an investigation into four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah's revelation that he was trafficked to the United Kingdom as a child. The inquiry comes after Farah, 39, said...
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi has told his Cabinet he will offer his resignation on Thursday evening to the nation's president, following the refusal of a populist coalition ally to support a key government bill. “The...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor called Thursday for an “overarching strategy” to bring perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine to justice, and representatives from dozens of...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's government has declared an “energy emergency” in response to supply disruptions and skyrocketing energy prices in Europe, an official said Wednesday. There is “unlikely to be enough gas...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Military officials from Russia and Ukraine were set to hold their governments' first face-to-face talks in months Wednesday during a session in Istanbul devoted to a United Nations plan to export blocked Ukrainian...
