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IMF, World Bank chiefs warn of debt squeeze in poor nations

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2022 | 1:17 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank warned Wednesday that rising interest rates are squeezing the world's poorest countries as they struggle with the coronavirus and soaring food prices. There...

Netflix aims to curtail password sharing, considers ads

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2022 | 9:33 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An unexpectedly sharp drop in subscribers has Netflix considering changes it has long resisted: Minimising password sharing and creating a low-cost subscription supported by advertising. Looming changes announced late...

Ukraine war refugees top five million as assault intensifies

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2022 | 9:23 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — After spending weeks with no electricity or water in the basement of her family's home in Ukraine, Viktoriya Savyichkina made a daring escape from the besieged city of Mariupol with her 9- and 14-year-old daughters....

Johnson says sorry for partygate as critics prep censure bid

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2022 | 12:07 AM

LONDON (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday offered what he said was a “wholehearted” apology for attending an illegal party during lockdown – but insisted he didn’t knowingly break rules or mislead Parliament, and brushed off...

Worst flooding in 60 years claims 448 lives

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2022 | 12:07 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP): Declaring a national state of disaster, South Africa has allocated US$67 million to help those hit by floods that have killed at least 448 people in the eastern city of Durban and the surrounding KwaZulu-Natal province. Nearly 4,...

Opposition stages protest action against fuel price increases

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2022 | 12:07 AM

PORT OF SPAIN(CMC): Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar says she intends to raise as a matter of urgent public importance in Parliament on Wednesday, the government’s recent announcement of an increase in fuel prices. The one dollar (one TT...

Elderly brothers found dead with hands tied

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2022 | 12:07 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Police have launched a search for the killers of two elderly Chinese brothers, whose bodies were found with their hands tied with plastic zip ties in their home in Petit Bourg, east of here, on Tuesday. Police said 87-year-old...

President admits mistakes led to economic crisis

Published:Tuesday | April 19, 2022 | 12:07 AM

COLOMBO AP): Sri Lanka’s president acknowledged Monday that he made mistakes that led to the country’s worst economic crisis in decades and pledged to correct them. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the admission while speaking to 17 new Cabinet...

Shanghai reports first deaths in current COVID-19 outbreak

Published:Tuesday | April 19, 2022 | 12:07 AM

BEIJING (AP): Shanghai authorities on Monday reported the first COVID-19 deaths in the latest outbreak in China’s most populous and wealthiest city. All three people who died were elderly, had underlying diseases such as diabetes and hypertension...

Syrian fighters ready to join next phase of Ukraine war

Published:Tuesday | April 19, 2022 | 12:07 AM

BEIRUT (AP): During a visit to Syria in 2017, Vladimir Putin lavished praise on a Syrian general whose division played an instrumental role in defeating insurgents in the country’s long-running civil war. The Russian president told him his...

Band of heavily armed thieves raids small city

Published:Tuesday | April 19, 2022 | 12:06 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): A group of criminals with high-powered rifles stormed a city in Brazil’s southern Parana state late Sunday night, attempting a brazen robbery and engaging police in a shoot-out. Local media reported that the roughly 30...

Six killed, several others injured following vehicular accident

Published:Tuesday | April 19, 2022 | 12:06 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry says he is “deeply saddened” at the loss of lives following a vehicular accident over the weekend that left at least six people dead and more than 70 others injured. Media reports said that the...

Unrest sparked by far-right demos continues in Sweden

Published:Monday | April 18, 2022 | 12:08 AM

HELSINKI (AP): Unrest broke out in southern Sweden late Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. Scuffles and unrest...

Archbishop: UK’s Rwanda migrants plan goes against God

Published:Monday | April 18, 2022 | 12:08 AM

LONDON (AP): The leader of the Anglican church strongly criticised the British government’s plan to put some asylum-seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda, saying “sub-contracting out our responsibilities” to refugees can’t stand up to God’s scrutiny...

Residents defy surrender-or-die demand

Published:Monday | April 18, 2022 | 12:07 AM

KYIV (AP): The shattered port city of Mariupol appeared on the brink of falling to the Russians on Sunday after seven weeks under siege, in what would give Moscow a crucial success following its failure to storm the Ukrainian capital and the...

Resolve or dissolve

Published:Monday | April 18, 2022 | 12:07 AM

BASSETERRE (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris has been given a deadline to resolve the issues facing the coalition Team Unity government or dissolve parliament and pave the way for fresh general elections as the rift within the administration...

US Army using lessons from Ukraine war to aid own training

Published:Sunday | April 17, 2022 | 12:12 AM

FORT IRWIN, California (AP): In the dusty California desert, US Army trainers are already using lessons learned from Russia's war against Ukraine as they prepare soldiers for future fights against a major adversary such as Russia or China. The role...

US man accused of leaving grandmother in freezer to die

Published:Sunday | April 17, 2022 | 12:11 AMARMUCHEE, Georgia (AP):

Police say a northwest Georgia man killed his grandmother by stuffing her in a freezer while she was still alive. Floyd County Police discovered the body of Doris Cumming, 82, late Thursday in the Armuchee home she shared with her grandson, 29-year...

Invictus Games opens with Prince Harry tribute to Ukrainians

Published:Sunday | April 17, 2022 | 12:07 AMTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): -

The Invictus Games competition for wounded, injured and ill service personnel and veterans opened Saturday night in the Netherlands with a standing ovation and a tribute from Prince Harry for the Ukrainian team members who left their war-torn...

Ukraine war far from over as Russia renews strikes in Kyiv

Published:Saturday | April 16, 2022 | 11:40 AM

Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond Saturday in an explosive reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole country remains under threat despite Russia’s pivot toward mounting a new offensive in the east.

President’s mass arrests ‘punitive populism’

Published:Saturday | April 16, 2022 | 12:06 AM

SANTA TECLA (AP): A day after the bloodletting – 62 gang killings that convulsed El Salvador – the crackdown began. Before dawn on Sunday, March 27, just hours after congress approved a state of emergency, heavily armed police and soldiers entered...

Anti-virus shutdowns spread as infections rise

Published:Saturday | April 16, 2022 | 12:06 AM

BEIJING (AP): Anti-virus controls that have shut down some of China’s biggest cities and fuelled public irritation are spreading as infections rise, hurting a weak economy and prompting warnings of possible global shockwaves. Shanghai is easing...

Easter holiday bus crash claims 35 lives

Published:Saturday | April 16, 2022 | 12:06 AM

MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AP): A bus carrying worshippers travelling to an Easter pilgrimage in mountainous eastern Zimbabwe plunged into a gorge, killing 35 people in the early hours of Friday. The bus was overloaded with 106 passengers and veered off the...

South Carolina inmate picks firing squad over electric chair

Published:Friday | April 15, 2022 | 5:52 PM

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month, according to court documents...

UK plan to fly asylum-seekers to Rwanda draws outrage

Published:Friday | April 15, 2022 | 3:38 PM

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Friday that it plans to start putting asylum-seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda within weeks, as it defended a deal that has outraged refugee groups and humanitarian organisations. Britain and...

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