Airlines have cancelled more than 3,500 US flights this weekend and delayed thousands more, citing weather in Florida and other issues. FlightAware, a website that tracks flights, noted major disruptions at several Florida airports, including...
ISLAMABAD (AP): Pakistan’s prime minister threw the country into political limbo on Sunday, accusing the United States of attempting to oust him and cancelling a no-confidence vote he was poised to lose. He then ordered the National Assembly...
CASTRIES (CMC): Twenty years after an employee of a local institution was accused of sexually abusing boys and girls under his care, the court last week convicted the perpetrator on charges of carnal knowledge and remanded him in custody for...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard is currently searching for five fishermen who have been missing since their vessel sank offshore the twin-island republic on Saturday. According to the coast guard, shortly before 4 p.m. (...
BUCHA (AP): Bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture lay scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian soldiers withdrew from the area. Ukrainian authorities on Sunday accused the departing forces of...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): President Dr Irfaan Ali – in a message to mark the month of Ramadan – the holiest month on Islamic calendar, told the nation that Guyana’s newfound prosperity must be shared with all. In a message to Guyanese at home, in the...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has sent condolences to the Government and people of St. Kitts Nevis on the passing of former Premier Vance Winkworth Amory . The former premier died early Saturday in London,...
HAVANA (AP): The event at a convention center in Cuba's capital looks like a lot of trade fairs: Music blares as visitors stroll between colorful booths displaying a wild variety of products: furniture or clothing, glassware or recycled paper,...
KYIV (AP): Ukrainian troops moved cautiously to retake territory north of the country's capital on Saturday, using cables to pull the bodies of civilians off streets of one town out of fear that Russian forces may have left them booby-trapped....
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops moved cautiously to retake territory north of the country's capital on Saturday, using cables to pull the bodies of civilians off the streets in one town out of fear that Russian forces might have...
ARTEMISA, Cuba (AP): Francisco Pérez Rodríguez has a car problem – one that’s starting to be all too common for many Cubans. He’s been rebuilding the engine of his father-in-law’s Moskvich – one of tens of thousands of cars and other vehicles that...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP): Costa Ricans will vote tomorrow for a new president amid widespread apathy, an unending string of controversies between the candidates and no clear favourite. Ex-President José María Figueres and Rodrigo Chaves, a former...
China today renewed its criticism of Western sanctions against Russia, as top European Union officials sought assurances from Beijing that it would not help Moscow circumvent the economic measures imposed in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
SAN SALVADOR (AP): El Salvador’s Congress on Wednesday increased sentences for crimes committed by gang members, expanding on a state of emergency lawmakers granted last weekend as President Nayib Bukele pursues the country’s powerful street gangs...
KYIV (AP): Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company said Thursday as fighting raged on the...
DAKAR AP): The French medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), says that five of its employees have been released in Nigeria after being kidnapped last month in neighbouring Cameroon. Armed men kidnapped the MSF employees on Feb 24 from the...
AP - Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago. An international team described the first-ever sequencing of a complete human genome...
WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Joe Biden is ordering the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve for six months, the White House said Thursday, in a bid to control energy prices that have...
WASHINGTON (AP): US intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about his nation’s forces’ poor performance in Ukraine, according to a US official. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden...
SAN SALVADOR (AP): Security forces intensified operations against El Salvador’s street gangs Tuesday with mass arrests, the cordoning off of neighbourhoods and house-by-house searches under a state of emergency that has raised concerns among some...
BERLIN (AP): Germany’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday its diplomats are working to get access to a German citizen imprisoned in Cuba since last year. Supporters say Luis Frómeta Compte, a resident of Dresden who has both German and Cuban citizenship...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Ariel Henry has renewed a call for greater unity among the population as Haiti observers the 35th anniversary of the 1987 Constitution. In a message posted on his Twitter account, Henry, who came to office...
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences today said that Will Smith was asked to leave Sunday's Oscar ceremony after hitting Chris Rock but refused to do so.
KYIV (AP): Russia announced Tuesday it will significantly scale back military operations near Ukraine’s capital and a northern city, as the outlines of a possible deal to end the grinding war came into view at the latest round of talks. Ukraine’s...
ABUJA (AP) : Gunmen attacked a train near Nigeria’s capital on Monday night with explosives and gunfire, killing an unspecified number of the nearly 1,000 passengers on board, authorities and survivors told AP on Tuesday. The attackers used...
