PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): The newest judge tapped to oversee the investigation into the killing of President Jovenel Moïse told AP on Friday that he has not decided whether to take the case amid concerns of putting his life in danger. Judge...
SAN JOSE (AP): Costa Ricans head into national elections Sunday facing a dizzying array of 25 presidential candidates, no dominant issue to drive turnout and nearly one-third of those intending to vote saying they are still undecided. Those factors...
LONDON (AP): This was the week British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoped to get a grip on his government after weeks of scandal. By Friday, he was struggling to hang on after a scathing report on lockdown-breaching parties and the departure of...
IGHRAN (AP): Rescuers inched closer Friday to reaching a five-year-old boy trapped for three days in a well in Morocco, in an operation hampered by concerns about ground stability that has captivated the North African country. The boy, identified...
BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): Shyne Barrow has been sworn in as opposition leader for a second time since the United Democratic Party (UDP) lost the November 2020 general election, replacing former education minister Patrick Faber, who resigned in the...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): Two organisations, including the Grenada Human Rights Association (GHRA), have called for an independent inquiry into the shooting deaths of psychiatrically ill patients by law enforcement personnel.. In a joint...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai fiercely defended this year’s national budget, telling the National Assembly that all Amerindians across the regions stand to benefit from the slew of supportive measures it...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Ontario's Conservative premier called Friday for demonstrators to end of the “occupation” of Ottawa and police are sending 150 officers to the parts of the city most affected by the protest against COVID...
With American hospitals facing a dire shortage of nurses amid a slogging pandemic, many are looking abroad for health care workers. And it could be just in time. There's an unusually high number of green cards available this year for foreign...
DALLAS (AP) — Airline and tourism groups are pushing to eliminate the government requirement that international travellers provide a negative test for COVID-19 before boarding a United States-bound plane. They believe the testing...
ATMEH (AP): The leader of the violent Islamic State (IS) group was killed Thursday, blowing himself up along with members of his family during an overnight raid carried out by US special operations forces in northwestern Syria, President Joe Biden...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Officials at the island’s Dodds Prison have confirmed a COVID-19 outbreak, with more than 50 inmates and staffers so far testing positive for the virus, but Minister of Home Affairs and Information Wilfred Abrahams said operations...
MOSCOW (AP): American and European officials may be staying away from the Beijing Winter Olympics because of human rights concerns, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will be on hand even as tensions soar over his buildup of troops along his...
ATMEH, Syria (AP) — An elite U.S. military force killed one of the world's most wanted terrorists, the leader of the Islamic State group, during an overnight raid in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, President Joe Biden said...
ASHKELON (AP): Not too long ago, Ehud Olmert was trying to lead Israel to a historic peace agreement. These days, the former Israeli prime minister is pushing a different message: legalise marijuana. Olmert is among a group of former Israeli...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 US-based troops to Poland and Germany and shifting 1,000 soldiers from Germany to Romania as demonstrations of America’s commitments to allies on NATO’s eastern flank amid fears of a...
TORONTO (AP): The leader of Canada’s Conservative party has been ousted after a vote by his party’s lawmakers. It is the third main political rival Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has helped bring down. Party lawmakers voted 73 to 45 on Wednesday to...
BELMOPAN (CMC): Prime Minister John Briceno has tested positive for the COVID-19, according to an official statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). It said that Briceno, who is due to host the inter-sessional summit of the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer on Tuesday asked the United States to authorise extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March. In...
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 United States-based troops to Poland and Germany and shifting roughly 1,000 soldiers from Germany to Romania as demonstrations of American commitments to NATO allies amid fears of a...
GENEVA (AP) — Late-night disco partying. Elbow-to-elbow seating in movie theatres. Mask-free baring of faces in public, especially in Europe and North America: Bit by bit, many countries that have been hard-hit by the coronavirus are opening...
QUITO (AP): A rain-weakened hillside collapsed in Ecuador’s capital, sweeping over homes and a sports field and killing at least 22 people, city officials said Tuesday. The Quito Security Department also said 32 people were injured and eight houses...
NAIROBI (AP): The children walk among carcasses of animals dead from hunger and exhaustion, a stark image of the drought threatening millions of people in the Horn of Africa. Somalia, Kenya, and now Ethiopia have raised the alarm about the latest...
JERUSALEM (AP): Amnesty International said Tuesday that Israel has maintained “a system of oppression and domination” over the Palestinians going all the way back to its establishment in 1948, one that meets the international definition of...
MOSCOW (AP): Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the US and its allies have ignored Russia’s top security demands but added that Moscow remains open to more talks with the West on easing soaring tensions over Ukraine. Putin argued...
