SAN PEDRO: Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett has called on regional countries to improve intra-regional trade by 25 per cent by 2025, as she urged regional leaders to ensure that the CARICOM Single Market and Economy...
KYIV (AP): Russian forces escalated their attacks on crowded urban areas Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine’s second-biggest city and Kyiv’s main TV tower in what the country’s president called a blatant campaign of terror. “Nobody...
BUDAPEST (AP): Hungary’s right-wing nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, has for more than a decade nurtured close political and economic ties with Russia, giving him the reputation as the Kremlin’s closest European Union ally. For weeks, as...
Russian forces escalated their attacks on crowded urban areas Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine's second-biggest city and Kyiv's main TV tower in what the country's president called a blatant campaign of terror. “...
PRZEMYSL, Poland (AP) — People fleeing the war in Ukraine for the safety of European border towns include citizens of countries in Africa, Asia and the Mideast, people whose lives have been upended along with those of Ukrainians but who in...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The International Energy Agency's 31 member countries agreed Tuesday to release 60 million barrels of oil from their strategic reserves — half of that from the United States — “to send a strong...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces stepped up their attacks on crowded urban areas Tuesday, bombarding the central square in Ukraine's second-biggest city and Kyiv's main TV tower in what the country's president called a blatant...
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices soared Tuesday and investors shifted more money into ultra-safe US government bonds as Russia stepped up its war on Ukraine. Stocks fell following a volatile day for major indexes as investors tried to measure...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Health authorities in Guatemala say over a million doses of the Russian Sputnik coronavirus vaccine have expired because nobody wanted to take the shot. Francisco Coma, the country's health minister, said Monday that...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — A man shot and killed his three daughters, their chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls Monday at a church in Sacramento, California, authorities said. Deputies responding to reports of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The harsh sanctions imposed on Russia and the resulting crash of the ruble have the Kremlin scrambling to keep the country's economy running. For Vladimir Putin, that means finding workarounds to the Western...
KYIV (AP): When the children start crying, the adults start playing Ukrainian folk songs, or make up fairy tales to chase away the fear. Food and water are sometimes scarce. Everyone hopes for peace. These are the vagaries of life in makeshift...
KYIV (AP): The first talks aimed at stopping the fighting between Ukraine and Russia ended on Monday with no agreement except to keep talking, while an increasingly isolated Moscow ran into unexpectedly fierce resistance on the ground and economic...
BELMOPAN (CMC): Belize says Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, are to make a four-day visit to the country this month, the first stop on their Caribbean tour which they are undertaking in the context of the Queen’s platinum jubilee. A...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago government on Monday said it would appoint an independent team to probe the circumstances that led to four underwater welders going missing, and now presumed dead, while working on a 36-inch underwater...
KYIV, Ukraine: AP — More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russian artillery hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, the head of the region wrote on Telegram. Dmytro Zhyvytskyy posted photographs of the...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its bond with the West on Monday by applying to join the European Union, while the first round of Ukraine-Russia talks aimed at ending the fighting concluded with no deal but an...
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is suspending production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan starting Tuesday, because of a “system malfunction” that a domestic supplier suspects is a cyberattack. Kojima Industries Corp., based in...
BEREGSURANY, Hungary (AP) — The mass exodus of refugees from Ukraine to the eastern edge of the European Union showed no signs of stopping Monday, with the United Nations estimating that more than 500,000 people have already...
KYIV (AP): In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin put Russian nuclear forces on high alert on Sunday, in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers...
KYIV (AP): Street fighting broke out in Ukraine’s second-largest city and Russian troops squeezed strategic ports in the country’s south on Sunday, advances that appeared to mark a new phase of Russia’s invasion following a wave of attacks on...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin put Russian nuclear forces on high alert Sunday in response to what he called “aggressive statements...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Kyiv residents braced Saturday for another night sheltering underground, as Russian troops closed in on Ukraine's capital and skirmishes were reported on the outskirts. Ukraine's leader, meanwhile, claimed the...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): The chief personnel officer (CPO) has been in touch with Vincentian students in Russia, amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, while Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has written to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The...
PRZEMYSL (AP): Thousands of Ukrainians crossed into neighbouring countries to the west in search of safety as Russia pounded their capital and other cities with airstrikes for a second day. Those arriving were mostly women, children and the elderly...
