NEW DELHI (AP): India and other Asian nations are becoming an increasingly vital source of oil revenues for Moscow despite strong pressure from the US not to increase their purchases, as the European Union and other allies cut off energy imports...
LONDON (AP): A British government’s plan to deport asylum seekers of various nationalities to Rwanda is set to go ahead after an appeals court on Monday refused to block the policy that the UN’s top refugee official said sets a dangerous precedent...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as this fall under a bill signed into law today by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine. The law, as enacted, requires up to 24 hours of training before an employee can go armed...
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The lush green beauty of a pine forest and singing birds contrasted with the violent deaths of newly discovered victims of Russia's war in Ukraine, as workers exhumed bodies from another burial site near Bucha...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's government is expected to introduce legislation Monday that would unilaterally change post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland amid opposition from lawmakers who believe the move violates...
LONDON (AP) — British health officials have detected another 104 cases of monkeypox in England in what has become the biggest outbreak beyond Africa of the normally rare disease. The United Kingdom's Health Security Agency said Monday...
COLOMBO (AP) : Sri Lanka may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as the island nation hunts desperately for fuel amid an unprecedented economic crisis, the newly appointed prime minister said. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he...
MOSCOW (AP): Three months after McDonald’s suspended operations in Russia, hundreds of people streamed into its famous former outlet on Moscow’s Pushkin Square as the restaurant reopened on Sunday under a Russian owner and a new name. In March...
PHNOM PENH (AP): Cambodia’s prime minister urged military-ruled Myanmar to reconsider the death sentences against four political opponents, suggesting that executing them will draw strong international condemnation and complicate efforts to...
LONDON (AP): A British judge on Friday rejected a bid to ground a flight due to take more than 30 asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda next week, but gave the migrants permission for a last-minute appeal. The flight leaving Tuesday is the...
BEIJING (AP): China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet that...
LONDON (AP) — The British government plans to burn billions of pounds in unusable personal protective equipment purchased in haste during the coronavirus pandemic, a public spending watchdog said Friday. The idea of burning the face masks,...
LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Friday rejected a bid to ground a flight due to take more than 30 asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda next week, but gave the migrants permission for a last-minute appeal. The flight leaving Tuesday is...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie after the World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travellers to the United States take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates...
LOS ANGELES (AP): President Joe Biden tried to present a unifying vision for the Western Hemisphere on Thursday, even as the Summit of the Americas has been wracked by divisions and absences that make it hard to bring North and South America...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Scotiabank has announced that the agreement for the sale of its banking operations in Guyana to the Trinidad-based First Citizens Bank Limited (First Citizens) has expired and as a result, “the agreement has been terminated in...
SANTO DOMINGO (AP): The childhood friend accused of fatally shooting the Dominican Republic’s minister of environment and natural resources this week allegedly did so because he was denied environmental permits he was seeking on behalf of various...
BANGKOK (AP) : Thailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana as of Thursday, like a dream come true for an ageing generation of pot smokers who recall the kick delivered by the legendary Thai Stick variety. The public health minister’s...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — United States President Joe Biden tried to present a unifying vision for the Western Hemisphere today but the Summit of the Americas quickly spilled into open discord in a telling illustration of the difficulties of...
ROME (AP) — Food import bills will reach a record high this year and food markets are likely to tighten around the world, according to a glum new forecast by a United Nations food agency. The Food Outlook, issued twice a year by the Food and...
GENEVA (AP) — More than two years after coronavirus emerged in China and after at least 6.3 million deaths have been counted worldwide from the pandemic, the World Health Organization is recommending in its strongest terms yet that a deeper...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 35 children have died in recent weeks due to drought and conflict in Ethiopia's northeastern Afar region, according to a local hospital and the medical charity Doctors Without Borders. The announcement...
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Almost the whole of Portugal was in severe drought at the end of May, the country's weather service said Thursday. The month of May was the hottest in the southern European country for the last 92 years, weather...
BAKHMUT (AP): Ukrainian and Russian forces battled fiercely for control of a key eastern city Wednesday, while fears of a global food crisis escalated as millions of tons of grain pile up inside the besieged country, unable to be exported by sea...
