CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP): Rwanda has become the third African nation to enter into a deal with the Trump administration to accept migrants deported by the United States. The Rwandan government said Tuesday it has agreed to accept up to 250...
BEIRUT (AP): Shiite members of Lebanon’s cabinet walked out of a government meeting on Thursday in protest of a proposed plan to disarm the Hezbollah militant group and political organisation. The rest of the cabinet then voted in favour of the US...
HARARE (AP): The United States on Thursday announced a pause on all routine visa applications for citizens of Zimbabwe, the latest restriction on travellers from Africa. It came days after the US unveiled a pilot project requiring citizens of two...
ATLANTA (AP) — A suspected shooter at the campus of Emory University in Atlanta is dead and one law enforcement officer is injured after police responded to reports of an active shooter Friday, according to police. The incident took place near...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that to destroy Hamas Israel intends to take full control of the Gaza Strip and eventually transfer its administration to friendly Arab forces, as the Security Cabinet...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): A wealthy businessman became president Thursday of Haiti’s transitional presidential council tasked with restoring order in the troubled country, while a prominent gangster underscored the challenges by vowing to...
WASHINGTON (CMC): The Organization of American States says it “categorically rejects” what it termed the “false and misleading allegations” recently published regarding the internal functioning, human and financial resource management, and...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): The United States on Wednesday denied seeking to determine the outcome of the September 1 general and regional elections even as it maintained its position regarding the candidacy of the political leader of the We...
ROME (AP) — The world experienced its third-warmest July on record this year, the European Union agency that tracks global warming said Thursday, with temperatures easing slightly for the month as compared with the record high two years ago....
SAN JUAN (AP): The Trump administration has dismissed five out of seven members on Puerto Rico’s federal control board that oversees the US territory’s finances, sparking concern about the future of the island’s fragile economy. Four of the five...
NEW YORK (AP): WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts that were “linked to criminal scam centres” targeting people online around that world, its parent company Meta said this week. The account deletions, which Meta said took place over the...
AP: ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according to new research from a watchdog group. The...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Lawyers for a New York-based Guyanese-businessman, say their client is asking the High Court to award him GUY$30 million (One Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents) following a ruling in his favour against a reporter. The High Court had...
MIAMI (AP): A federal judge heard arguments Wednesday over whether to stop construction of an immigration detention centre built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” because it didn’t follow environmental laws....
ATHENS (AP): Egypt’s foreign minister, on a visit to Greece on Wednesday, described the international response to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza as shameful and urged powerful Western nations to increase pressure on Israel. “The...
The Cayman Islands, Japan and other stakeholders have been lauded by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green, for their contribution to the country’s agricultural sector. Cayman’s Minister for Planning, Lands, Agriculture,...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A Trinidadian, Shurlan Guppy, has been extradited to the United States where he will face federal charges in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The US Embassy in Port of Spain said that Guppy had been under...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The crash of a military helicopter in Ghana on Wednesday killed all eight people aboard including the West African country's defence and environment ministers and other top officials, the government said. The Ghanaian...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that it is removing age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement, as it aims to expand hiring after a massive infusion of cash from Congress....
LONDON (CMC): The London-based Privy Council Tuesday ruled in favour of former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley, in his long-running legal battle regarding the sale of a parcel of land on the Alma Estate in Mason Hall, Tobago....
AP: Truck drivers trying to deliver aid inside Gaza say their work has become increasingly dangerous in recent months as people have grown desperately hungry and violent gangs have filled a power vacuum left by the territory’s Hamas rulers. Crowds...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP): Rwanda on Tuesday became the third African nation to agree to accept deportees from the United States under the Trump administration’s plans to send migrants to countries they have no ties with to get them off American soil....
AP: The man wanted in the killings of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a front yard in western Tennessee last week has been arrested, police said. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was taken into custody amid a search on...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): President Irfaan Ali has paid tribute to veteran educator, Daniel Williams, a candidate of the ruling People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) for the September 1 general and regional elections, who collapsed and died while...
CASTRIES (CMC): The Roman Catholic Church says while it firmly rejects all forms of violence, hatred, or unjust discrimination against persons who experience same-sex attraction, it wanted to reaffirm that sexual acts outside of the bond of...
