KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine accused Moscow today of forcibly taking hundreds of thousands of civilians from shattered Ukrainian cities to Russia, where some may be used as "hostages" to pressure Kyiv to give up. Lyudmyla Denisova,...
WASHINGTON (AP): Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated eastern Europe who rose to become the first female US secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American statesmen and women, has died of...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Euvonie Georges Auguste, a prominent Voodoo priestess and secretary general of Haiti’s National Conference of Vodouists, has died, prompting expressions of mourning from national leaders on Wednesday. Vodou high priest Carl-...
MOSCOW (AP): President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday that Russia will demand “unfriendly″ countries to pay for Russian natural gas exports only in rubles from now on. Putin told a meeting with government officials that “a number of Western...
KYIV (AP): NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of war in Ukraine, where fierce fighting by the country’s fast-moving defenders has denied Moscow the lightning victory it sought. By way of...
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP): A Rhode Island man faces a murder charge in the death of his girlfriend whose body was found wrapped in plastic, towels and blankets inside a refrigerator in the apartment they shared, police said Wednesday. Police...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American statesmen and women, died today...
MADRID (AP) — Across Europe, governments are slashing fuel taxes and doling out tens of billions to help consumers, truckers, farmers and others cope with spiking energy prices made worse by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But it's...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of war in Ukraine, where fierce resistance from the country's defenders has denied Moscow the lightning victory it...
With Europe facing its most precarious future since World War II, President Joe Biden will huddle with key allies in Brussels and Warsaw this week as the leaders try to prevent Russia’s war on Ukraine from spiralling into an even greater catastrophe.
KYIV (AP): Ukrainian forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, mounting a defence so dogged that it is stoking fears Russia’s Vladimir Putin will escalate the...
WASHINGTON (AP): Facing Republican senators’ pointed questions, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully defended her record as a federal judge on Tuesday and declared she will rule “from a position of neutrality” if confirmed as the...
NEW ORLEANS (AP): Four teenagers face murder charges in connection with a carjacking that left a 73-year-old woman dying on a New Orleans street, her arm severed after she was dragged a block by her own car while neighbours looked on helplessly,...
LANSING, Michigan (AP): Two Michigan brothers who were wrongfully convicted in the murder of a family friend walked free Tuesday and were reunited with their family after 25 years behind bars. George and Melvin DeJesus were convicted in the 1995...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday warned that at least 4.5 million Haitians are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity as it pointed to lower-than-expected humanitarian food assistance and continued fallout...
Four Ukrainian children with cancer and their families arrived today at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, marking the first hospital in the United States to receive patients from Ukraine, officials announced....
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and pressed their attack on the embattled southern port of Mariupol. Explosions...
WASHINGTON (AP): History was made Monday the instant Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. President Joe Biden promised he would choose a Black woman for...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Haiti has been ranked among the least “happy” countries, according to the World Happiness Report 2022, released by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Haiti is the only Caribbean Community (...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden has added a stop in Poland to his trip this week to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and European allies, as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in a nearly month-old...
NEW YORK (AP): After Donald Trump was caught on video bragging about sexually assaulting women, Mike Pence stayed on his ticket. As the coronavirus ravaged the US, the then vice- president praised the administration’s response. And after a violent...
BEIJING (AP): A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster in nearly a...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia said earlier today that it "won't bear any responsibility" for a shortage in global oil supplies after a fierce barrage of attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels affected production...
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down their arms and raise white flags Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the besieged port city. As Russia intensified its...
