TORONTO (AP) — Air Canada started cancelling flights on Thursday ahead of a possible work stoppage by flight attendants that could impact hundreds of thousands of travellers. A complete shutdown of the country's largest airline threatens to...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Heavily armed gang members killed two Haitian police officers in the latest deadly attack on law enforcement in the troubled Caribbean country, officials said Wednesday. The officers attacked late Tuesday were members of...
ROME (AP): A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized Wednesday in international waters off the Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 26 people and leaving about a dozen missing, the Italian coast guard and UN agencies said. Sixty...
BERLIN (AP): President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war against Ukraine after the two leaders meet for a summit later this week in Alaska...
GRETNA, Virginia (AP) — Multiple law enforcement officers have been shot in southern Virginia, a congressman said Wednesday. John McGuire, who represents Virginia's 5th congressional district, said in a post on X that his thoughts and prayers...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United States government on Wednesday said it has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on Grenadian government officials, and their family members, for their complicity in the Cuban regime’s medical mission scheme. The...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): For years, low-quality seeds have been a concern in Haiti, with continual climate shocks and political insecurity adding to the existing challenges that farmers face in their attempts to grow food. Instead of having seeds...
CAIRO (AP): Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched attacks Monday in a famine-stricken displacement camp outside of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur province, killing 40 people, local rights groups said. The Emergency...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The United States and China clashed over the Panama Canal at the United Nations on Monday, with the US warning that Beijing’s influence over the key waterway could threaten global trade and security and China calling US...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): Members of Guatemala’ s two largest gangs — Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha — staged riots in two Guatemalan prisons on Tuesday, demanding the return of 10 leaders who were sent to another prison and placed in solitary...
LONDON (CMC): Guyana is the lone CARICOM country named in 15 new countries under the United Kingdom’s ‘deport now, appeal later’ scheme as the European country seeks to send foreigners who commit crimes in the UK back to their home countries...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders and a US citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate US sanctions and fund gang activities in the troubled Caribbean country, the US...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has been selected as the candidate of the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) to contest the North Central Windward constituency in the next general election, widely expected this year, ahead of the...
VATICAN (CMC): Pope Leo XIV has appealed to the abductors of the Irish missionary, Gena Heraty, to release her and the children whom they kidnapped on August 3, adding that the situation in the French-speaking CARICOM country is “increasingly...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP): Some law enforcement officers are continuing to charge people under a Florida law that bans people living in the US illegally from entering the state, even though a federal judge has halted enforcement of the law while it...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A gunman opened fire Monday outside a Target store in Austin, Texas, killing at least three people, and a suspect has been arrested, police said. Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said the suspect stole a car after the attack...
NASSAU (CMC): Prime Minister Philip Davis has defended the decision to amend the Parliamentary Elections Bill, saying it closes a loop while respecting the rights of voters, the authority of institutions, and the demand from the public for...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony informed that Guyana is now embracing drone technology in its public healthcare system to deliver medical supplies to hard-to-reach areas. “We’ve tested one of the drones and it can fly for 150...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Government of Barbados and the Republic of India recently signed a landmark memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the establishment of a state-of-the-art coconut processing plant on the island. The signing of the MOU is seen...
CHICAGO (AP): A review by The Associated Press shows that several of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the federal courts have revealed anti-abortion views, been associated with anti-abortion groups or defended abortion restrictions. Several...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Mexican authorities are accusing sportswear company Adidas of plagiarising artisans in southern Mexico, alleging that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional Indigenous footwear known as huaraches. The...
ROME (AP): Thousands of people marched in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest a government plan to build a bridge that would connect the Italian mainland with Sicily in a massive 13.5-billion euro ($15.5 billion) infrastructure...
ISLAMABAD (AP): The Taliban are investigating explicit death threats against dozens of Afghan women working for the United Nations (UN), according to a report published Sunday. In its latest update on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, the...
AP: Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong. But she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance...
Vanuatu (AP): Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu off the Australian coastline, amid a graveyard of broken coral, a moray eel peers from the branches of a staghorn colony. Nearby, the feathered arms of a yellow sea lily sway in the current and...
