KABUL (AP): A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early on Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at least 1,000 people in the country’s deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The Parliamentary Electoral Office (PEO) on Wednesday said the only form of identification that will be allowed during today’s general election is the voter identification card it has issued. This as the main opposition National...
Baroness Scotland, who is seeking a second term as secretary general of the Commonwealth, is involved in a bitter dispute with some of the organisation’s member states – only days before she asks them for a second term of office, the BBC has...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday called for Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months — an election-year move meant to ease financial pressures that was greeted with doubts by...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's debt-laden economy has “collapsed” after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, its prime minister told lawmakers Wednesday, in comments underscoring the country's dire...
MIAMI (AP) — The crash landing of a jetliner that caught fire on the runway at Miami International Airport with 126 people on board had passengers screaming and panicking, witnesses said. “People were very frightened,”...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the country's deadliest quakes in decades, the state-run...
BOGOTA (AP): It’s one of the United States’ few enduring alliances in an often-turbulent Latin America, one built around a decades-long partnership combating the nation’s drug cartels. But Gustavo Petro’s election as Colombia’s first leftist...
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel’s weakened coalition government announced Monday that it would dissolve parliament and call new elections, setting the stage for the possible return to power of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or another period of...
NAIROBI (AP): “Africa is actually taken hostage” in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid catastrophically rising food prices, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the African Union (AU) continental body during a closed-door address on Monday....
SYLHET (AP): Villagers in northeastern Bangladesh crowded makeshift refugee centres and scrambled to meet boats arriving with food and fresh water as massive floods, which have killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands there and...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Striking nurses and other health workers have brought Zimbabwe's government hospitals to a near standstill, straining a once vibrant public health system now plagued by a lack of medicines and basic supplies such...
HAMILTON (CMC): Premier David Burt has paid tribute to Jamaica-born Olga Scott, who championed a charity for at-risk young women, saying she was a “kind and compassionate woman” and “exemplified the very essence of public service”. Scott, who has...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Mia Mottley has tested positive for COVID-19, according to an official statement issued here. The statement by the Office of the Prime Minister said that Prime Minister Mottley has “a mild case and she has indicated...
NAIROBI (AP): East Africa’s leaders have responded to the threat of war between Rwanda and Congo by instructing a new regional force to deploy in eastern Congo and ordering an immediate ceasefire. A statement after the leaders’ meeting in Kenya’s...
PHOENIX (AP): Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people...
ABUJA (AP): Gunmen attacked two churches in rural northwestern Nigeria on Sunday, killing three people, eye witnesses and a state official said, weeks after a similar attack in the West African nation left 40 worshippers dead. The attack in Kajuru...
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he's considering a federal holiday on the gasoline tax, possibly saving United States consumers as much as 18.4 cents a gallon. “Yes, I'm considering it,”...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office announced Monday that his weakened coalition will be disbanded and the country will head to new elections. The election, expected in October or November, would be Israel...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia will be governed by a leftist president for the first time after former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly defeated a real estate tycoon in a runoff election that underscored people's disgust with the country...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance was projected to lose its majority despite getting the most seats in the final round of parliamentary elections Sunday, while the far-right National Rally appeared to have...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked two churches in rural northwestern Nigeria on Sunday, killing three people, witnesses and a state official said, weeks after a similar attack in the West African nation left 40 worshippers dead. The...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is making a push to give city workers fired earlier this year for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine a chance to get their old jobs back — if they get fully vaccinated. In February, Mayor Eric Adams fired...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighters in Spain and Germany struggled to contain wildfires on Sunday amid an unusual heat wave in Western Europe for this time of year. The worst damage in Spain has been in the northwest province of Zamora where...
The day after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg met with airline leaders to quiz them about widespread flight disruptions, his own flight was cancelled and he wound up driving from Washington to New York. “That is happening to...
