NEW YORK (AP): The crisis in Ukraine is hardly going away – a showdown of two world views that could upend Europe. It carries echoes of the Cold War and resurrects an idea left over from the 1945 Yalta Conference: that the West should respect a...
SAN JUAN (AP): Unknown people toppled a statue of Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, ahead of a visit of King Felipe VI to the US Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico. Colonel José Juan García, police commissioner...
NASSAU (CMC): The main opposition Free National Movement (FNM) has called for the resignation of Prime Minister Phillip Davis, claiming that he had broken quarantine rules set by his administration last month, in order to collect Christmas gifts....
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Two earthquakes with magnitudes of more than 5.3 rocked sections of Haiti on Monday killing two people and injuring several others, less than 24 hours after the country was rattled by other tremors. The authorities said that...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Cuba confirmed yesterday that one of its medical doctors who had been kidnapped on January13 has been released. The Cuban embassy here said that Dr Daymara Helen Perez was released on Sunday after 10 days in the hands of...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday his government will remove coronavirus testing requirements for vaccinated people arriving in England, news hailed by the travel industry as a big step back to normality. Johnson...
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization is warning that conditions remain ideal for more coronavirus variants to emerge and says it's dangerous to assume omicron is the last one or that “we are in the endgame,...
MOSCOW (AP): Russia’s foreign ministry on Sunday rejected a British claim that the Kremlin is seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is a potential candidate....
OUAGADOUGOU (AP): Mutinous soldiers seized control of a military base in Burkina Faso’s capital Sunday, raising fears of a coup attempt in the West African nation as gunfire rang out for hours amid growing frustration with the government’s handling...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The main opposition Democratic Labour Party (DLP) will be electing a new president in April, following the party’s devastating loss in last Wednesday’s general election Speaking to the media on Friday, the DLP’s interim...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Ministry of Health says that it will consult with the relevant stakeholders before rolling out Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for five to 11-year-olds. On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended extending the use...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The Government of Canada has pledged millions of dollars to the government of Haiti to assist the French-speaking Caribbean Community nation with security and other projects. This was the outcome of a recent virtual three-...
ABUJA(AP): Islamic extremists have abducted 17 girls in north-east Nigeria, witnesses said Saturday as the West African nation’s military said it “remains resolute in decisively countering the terrorists”. Members of the Boko Haram jihadi group...
CAIRO (AP): Workers in war-wrecked Yemen recovered five more bodies from the rubble of a prison facility hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike, bringing the death toll to at least 87, an international aid group said Sunday. Internet access,...
YAOUNDE (AP): A fire erupted at a popular nightclub in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital, setting off explosions and killing at least 16 people, government officials said Sunday. The tragedy comes as the country hosts thousands of soccer players, fans...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is postponing her wedding after announcing new COVID-19 restrictions Sunday following the discovery of nine cases of the omicron variant in a single family that flew to Auckland to attend a wedding.
OCALA, Florida (AP): A Florida man filed a federal lawsuit last Thursday against a sheriff and his deputies, claiming he was illegally detained for no other reason than being born in Jamaica. Neville Brooks was a lawful permanent United States...
LONDON (AP): Revelations that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff partied while Britain was in a coronavirus lockdown have provoked public outrage and led some members of his Conservative Party to consider ousting their leader. If they...
HELSINKI (AP): The Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania plan to send United States-made anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine, a move that the United States fully endorsed Saturday amid Kyiv’s escalating tensions with Russia....
The Biden administration on Friday announced policy changes to attract international students specializing in science, technology, engineering and math – part of the broader effort to make the United States economy more competitive. The State...
Revelations that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his staff partied while Britain was in a coronavirus lockdown have provoked public outrage and led some members of his Conservative Party to consider ousting their leader. If they manage to...
HAVANA (AP): Cuban courts have wrapped up the hearing phase of six mass trials for people accused of involvement in the largest and most unruly protests on the island in decades, leaving more than 100 defendants awaiting potentially heavy sentences...
MONROVIA (AP): At least 29 people in Liberia, including 11 children and a pregnant woman, have died in a stampede of worshippers at a Christian ceremony in a densely populated area of the capital, Monrovia, officials said Thursday. The stampede...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP): A vehicle carrying explosives used in mining collided with a motorcycle and blew up in western Ghana on Thursday, causing an unknown number of fatalities and injuring scores of people, police said. Video from the scene...
SEOUL (AP): Accusing the United States of hostility and threats, North Korea on Thursday said it will consider restarting “all temporally suspended activities” it had paused during its diplomacy with the Trump administration, in an apparent threat...
