ISLAMABAD (AP): Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Prime Minister Imran Khan’s bid to stay in power, ruling that his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections was illegal. That set the stage for a no-confidence vote by...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government announced Thursday it will ban foreign investors from buying homes in Canada for two years in a bid to cool off a hot housing market. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organisations leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan...
GENEVA (AP) — The number of coronavirus cases reported globally has dropped for a second consecutive week and confirmed COVID-19 deaths also fell last week, according to a World Health Organization report issued Wednesday. In its latest...
SAN SALVADOR (AP): El Salvador’s congress, pushing further in the government’s dramatic crackdown on gangs, has authorised prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce or disseminate messages from the gangs, alarming press...
OMAHA, Nebraska (AP): Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza. Penguins may be the only birds visitors...
MIAMI (AP): An attorney for a businessman enriched by Venezuela’s government argued in federal court Wednesday that his client’s continued detention on corruption charges sets a dangerous precedent that could endanger the free movement of US...
NEW ORLEANS (AP): Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration has charged a Russian oligarch linked to the Kremlin with violating US government sanctions, and disrupted a cybercrime operation that was launched by a Russian military intelligence agency, officials said...
Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is indeed working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the fact that edit-function fan Elon Musk was just revealed as the company's largest...
SAN SALVADOR (AP): El Salvador’s president threatened on Tuesday to stop providing food for imprisoned gang members as he continued his crackdown following a wave of killings that led to a state of emergency and implementation of measures that have...
BEIJING (AP): The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains “extremely grim” amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday. The director of Shanghai’s working...
BRUSSELS (AP): The European Union’s (EU) executive branch proposed Tuesday a ban on coal imports from Russia in what would be the first EU sanctions targeting the country’s lucrative energy industry over its war in Ukraine. European Commission...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government on Tuesday dismissed an allegation by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar that it is engaged in a massive illegal spying ring by monitoring phone messages of key members of society,...
Elon Musk is joining Twitter's board of directors a day after revealing that he'd become the social media platform's largest shareholder with a 9% stake. The billionaire has criticised Twitter publicly about its commitment to free...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's President Pedro Castillo imposed a tight curfew on the capital and the country's main port in response to sometimes violent protests over rising prices of fuel and food. Shortly before midnight, the president...
KYIV : The Ukrainian government says that 18 journalists have been killed in the country since Russia’s invasion began on February 24. The Ukrainian Culture and Information Ministry said in a statement on social media Monday that each of the deaths...
BUCHA (AP): Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes on Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some of whom had seemingly been killed at...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (CMC): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has praised the role played by Haiti’s first president, Alexandre Pétion, in the liberation of the South American country as the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country...
Air travel in the United States improved Monday after a rocky weekend that left thousands of flyers stranded by thunderstorms in Florida, technology problems at the busiest domestic airline and labour problems at another carrier. However, airlines...
BEIJING (AP) — China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from around the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 from the military, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading outbreak in its largest city under its zero-COVID strategy...
LONDON (AP) — British travellers going abroad for the Easter holidays faced disruptions Monday as two main carriers, British Airways and easyJet, cancelled dozens of flights due to staff shortages related to soaring cases of COVID-19 in the...
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia faced a fresh wave of condemnation on Monday after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. Some Western leaders called for further sanctions in response, even as...
