ABUJA (AP): At least 100 people may have died in a refinery explosion in southeast Nigeria, an official said on Sunday as the search intensified for bodies at the site and for two people suspected of being involved in the blast. The explosion on...
COVID-19 vaccinations are at a critical juncture as companies test whether new approaches, like combination shots or nasal drops, can keep up with a mutating coronavirus – even though it’s not clear if changes are needed. Already, there’s public...
CANAKKALE (AP): The remains of 17 missing French soldiers who fought in the World War I Battle of Gallipoli were handed over to French military officials and put to rest alongside other fallen comrades more than a century after their deaths. The...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed the West for more powerful weapons as he prepared to meet with top U.S. officials in the war-torn country's capital Sunday. Meanwhile, Russian forces are concentrating...
Maggie Mulligan said her dogs could sense the panic as she and her husband packed them up and fled a fast-moving wildfire barreling toward their home in northeast New Mexico as they agonized over having to leave their horses behind.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): Governor General Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton Thursday said he is awaiting “formal legal advice” before acting on an “undated” letter sent to him by seven government legislators indicating that they have no...
AP: A group of wild elephants sift through garbage looking for food at a landfill in Sri Lanka. It’s a dangerous undertaking – around 20 elephants have died from consuming plastic trash from the landfill in the Ampara district over the last eight...
MEXICO CITY (AP): Four years after university students led protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, his government is minimising chances of a recurrence by seizing a dozen private universities and closing them or shifting control to the...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP): Nearly a week into a ransomware attack that has crippled Costa Rican government computer systems, the country refused to pay a ransom as it struggled to implement workarounds and braced itself as hackers began publishing...
PARIS (AP): As France elects a president, Paris-based artist Vincent Aïtzegagh is going to ground, escaping to a bucolic village to avoid what, for him – and millions of other left-wing French voters – is a painful, even impossible, electoral...
NAIROBI (AP): Mwai Kibaki, the former Kenyan leader whose distinguished political career was tarnished when he won a second presidential term that was followed by deadly post-election violence, has died at the age of 90. Kibaki’s death was...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): The leaders of the rival Koreas exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which plummeted in the past three years amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea’s accelerating weapons...
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): The Belize government has confirmed that Ambassador Alexis Rosado has “relinquished” his diplomatic posting overseas after he appeared in a court on sexually related charges. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Unvaccinated children aged five to 11 travelling with a fully vaccinated adult will no longer need a COVID-19 test to enter Canada beginning Monday, the federal government said. Pre-entry tests will still be needed for...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia will ban exports of cooking oil and its raw materials to reduce domestic shortages and hold down skyrocketing prices, President Joko Widodo announced Friday, a day after hundreds of people protested in the...
A UK patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus. There’s no way to know for sure whether it was the...
TEGUCIGALPA (AP} Honduras extradited former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States on Thursday to face drug trafficking and weapons charges in a dramatic reversal for a leader once touted by US authorities as a key ally in the war on...
KYIV (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory Thursday in the battle for Mariupol despite an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters still holed up at a giant steel mill, ordering his troops not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off...
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers on Thursday ordered a parliamentary investigation into Prime Minister Boris Johnson for allegedly lying about whether he broke coronavirus restrictions by attending illegal gatherings during the pandemic. The...
MOSCOW (AP): The Russian military said on Wednesday it successfully performed the first test of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a weapon President Vladimir Putin said would make the West “think twice” before harbouring any...
KYIV (AP): Russian forces tightened the noose around the defenders holed up Wednesday in a mammoth steel plant that represented the last known Ukrainian stronghold in Mariupol, as a fighter apparently on the inside warned in a video plea for help...
PARIS (AP): French President Emmanuel Macron strongly attacked his far-right election challenger, Marine Le Pen, for her links to Russia in a televised debate Wednesday. He claimed that by taking out a loan from a Russian bank she made herself...
HAVANA (AP): Two days before the opening of migration talks between Cuba and the United States, which have been paralysed for four years, a high-ranking Cuban official lamented Washington’s “incoherent” and “differentiated” migration policies, and...
LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Wednesday formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. The case will now go to Britain's interior minister for a decision, though the WikiLeaks founder...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-one people have been charged in the past nine days as part of a nationwide enforcement push to root out those who exploit the pandemic through health care fraud schemes, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The...
