OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police began arresting scores of demonstrators and towing away vehicles Friday in Canada's besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities' hopes for an end to...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police began arresting protesters Friday in a bid to break the three-week, traffic-snarling siege of Canada's capital by hundreds of truckers angry over the country's COVID-19 restrictions. Officers, some...
NEW YORK (AP): Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigation into his business practices, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP): Fears of a new war in Europe resurged Thursday as US President Joe Biden warned that Russia could invade Ukraine within days, and violence spiked in a long-running stand-off in eastern Ukraine that some fear could be the spark...
BAMAKO, Mali (AP): France’s announcement Thursday that it will withdraw its troops from Mali was anticipated by many in this West African nation where Malians have protested the presence of soldiers from the former colonial power. But politicians...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Haiti is once more at a “crossroads”, six months after a devastating earthquake hit the south-west of the country, according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed. Mohammed was speaking on Wednesday at an...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state's civil investigation into his business practices, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and his two eldest...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets of Ottawa in a protest against the country's COVID-19 restrictions braced for a possible police crackdown Thursday, nearly three weeks into the siege that has shaken Canada...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP): Tensions rose in Ottawa on Wednesday as police trying to break the nearly three-week siege of the capital by truckers protesting Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions began warning drivers to leave immediately or risk arrest. At the...
HARARE (AP): Zimbabwe’s government says it will stop paying salaries of staff who are unvaccinated against COVID-19, while ordering those who have received jabs to report for work at their offices “with immediate effect”, after more than a year of...
BERLIN (AP): German vaccine maker BioNTech, which developed the first widely approved shot against COVID-19 together with Pfizer, unveiled plans Wednesday to establish manufacturing facilities in Africa that would boost the availability of much-...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's government says it will stop paying salaries of staff who are unvaccinated against COVID-19, state media reported Tuesday. Further, it has ordered those who have received jabs to report for work at...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farms that raise turkeys and chickens for meat and eggs are on high alert and taking steps to increase biosecurity, fearing a repeat of a widespread bird flu outbreak in 2015 that killed 50 million birds across 15...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 10:20 AM
PETROPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — The death toll from devastating mudslides and floods that swept through a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state has reached 38, local authorities said Wednesday. The city of Petropolis was slammed by a deluge on...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:10 AM
NEW YORK (AP): Britain’s Prince Andrew, accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl supplied to him by financier Jeffrey Epstein, has agreed to settle by making a substantial donation to his accuser’s charity and declaring he never...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:09 AM
BANDUNG (AP): An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced an Islamic boarding school principal to life in prison for raping at least 13 students over five years and impregnating some of them. The principal of the girls’ school in West Java’s Bandung...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:06 AM
KYIV (AP): A series of cyberattacks on Tuesday knocked the websites of Ukrainian government offices and major banks offline, Ukrainian authorities said, attacks that came amid strong tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine. It was too...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:06 AM
MOSCOW (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he welcomed a security dialogue with the West as his military reported pulling back some of its troops near Ukraine – signals that may indicate the Kremlin has opted for a diplomatic path...
Published:Wednesday | February 16, 2022 | 12:06 AM
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) Tuesday apologised “for any inconvenience caused” after the public was warned of a possible tsunami. In a brief statement, the BMS said that there “are no tsunami watches or warnings in...
NEW YORK (AP) — Britain's Prince Andrew, accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl supplied to him by financier Jeffrey Epstein, has agreed to settle by making a substantial donation to his accuser's...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Ottawa's police chief resigned Tuesday amid criticism of his inaction against the trucker protests that have paralysed Canada's capital for over two weeks, while demonstrators elsewhere across the country...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow is ready for talks with the United States and NATO on limits for missile deployments and military transparency, in a new sign of easing East-West tensions. The...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has invoked emergency powers to try to quell the protests by truck drivers and others who have paralysed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s COVID-19...
AP: When nurse Julia Buffo was told by her Montana hospital that she had to be vaccinated against COVID-19, she responded by filling out paperwork declaring that the shots run afoul of her religious beliefs. She cited various Old and New Testament...
WINDSOR, Ontario (AP): The busiest US-Canada border crossing reopened late Sunday after protests against COVID-19 restrictions closed it for almost a week, while Canadian officials held back from a crackdown on a larger protest in the capital,...
