KYIV (AP): Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to lift sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, seeking to shift the blame for a growing food crisis that has been worsened by Kyiv’s inability to ship millions of tons of grain and other...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Conservative government unveiled a 15 billion pound ($19 billion) emergency aid package Thursday to ease a severe cost-of-living squeeze, announcing the plan a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state's civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. A four-judge panel in the appellate division of the...
LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors said Thursday they have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men. The Crown Prosecution Service said Spacey “has also been charged with causing a person to...
UVALDE, Texas (AP): One student was an avid runner, so fast she swept the races at field day. Another was learning football plays from his grandfather. One girl sensed something was wrong and wanted to skip school. On Wednesday, stories began to...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Police in Rio de Janeiro raided the Vila Cruzeiro favela before dawn Tuesday, setting off a fierce firefight that authorities said killed more than 20 people. The operation was aimed at locating and arresting criminal leaders,...
HAVANA (AP): A vessel carrying more than 800 Haitians trying to reach the United States wound up instead on the coast of central Cuba, government news media said Wednesday. It appeared to be the largest group yet in a swelling exodus of people from...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves left here on Wednesday for Cuba where he will participate in the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) summit, according to a government statement. It said that Gonsalves will...
Amnesty International has issued a travel advisory for the United States urging travellers to the United States to exercise caution and to have an emergency contingency plan when travelling to the United States because of the spate of mass...
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas had warned in online messages minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up a school, the...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — California could soon hold social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products, permitting parents to sue platforms like Instagram and TikTok for up to $25,000 per...
LONDON (AP) — An investigation released Wednesday blamed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior leaders for allowing boozy government parties that broke the United Kingdom's COVID-19 lockdown rules. Johnson said he took...
Federal meteorologists are forecasting a record-shattering seventh straight unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted Tuesday that the summer in the Atlantic will produce 14 to 21 named...
OSOGBO (AP): Dozens of civilians have been killed in northeast Nigeria by Islamic extremist rebels targeting farmers and the local militia group, local authorities told AP on Tuesday. The attack happened Sunday in the Kala/Balge council area of...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he will be referring to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) as well as “all other relevant authorities” a scam which had him announcing that he and several other Caribbean...
BUENOS AIRES (AP): After a reprieve of months, confirmed cases of COVID-19 are surging in the southern tip of South America. But officials in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay hope high vaccination rates mean this latest wave will not be as deadly as...
LONDON (AP): For many struggling families, older people and the homeless, Michelle Dornelly’s food hub in east London has been a lifeline. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Britain, she has been collecting surplus groceries from supermarkets and...
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott says 15 people were killed in a shooting Tuesday at an elementary school. Abbott says the suspected shooter, an 18-year-old man, also died and was believed to be killed by responding officers....
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, a grim reminder of the horrors still coming to light in the ruined city that...
NASSAU (CMC): The three American tourists who were found dead at the Sandals Resort in Exuma earlier this month died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to media reports on Monday. The media quoted Police Commissioner Paul Rolle as confirming...
TOKYO (AP): President Joe Biden launched a new trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific nations on Monday aimed at strengthening their economies as he warned Americans worried about high inflation that it is “going to be a haul” before they feel relief. The...
BERLIN (AP): The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has crossed the milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, propelled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts, The UN...
LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been shadowed by a career-threatening scandal for months – but so far he has escaped unscathed. This week, he faces one more threat to his political future: a comprehensive report into...
When Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, war seemed far away from Russian territory. Yet within days, the conflict came home — not with cruise missiles and mortars but in the form of unprecedented and unexpectedly extensive...
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentina's president and first lady will pay a fine of three million pesos ($24,000) for hosting a party in July 2020 that violated the quarantine orders the head of state himself had ordered to prohibit group...
