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Jamaica-born child welfare worker fatally stabbed in Illinois

Published:Friday | January 7, 2022 | 12:09 AM

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP): An Illinois child welfare worker was stabbed to death during a home visit in a town south of Springfield, authorities say. Diedre Silas, 36, an investigator for the state Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS...

Three other cops in George Floyd death to stand trial this month

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 4:41 PM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in George Floyd's death will go on trial January 20. The trial date was given Thursday in a docket filing, with proceedings to be...

WHO: Record weekly jump in COVID-19 cases but fewer deaths

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 3:27 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Thursday that a record 9.5 million COVID-19 cases were tallied over the last week as the omicron variant of the coronavirus swept the planet, a 71% increase from the previous 7-day period that...

Biden decries ‘big lie,’ blames Trump for insurrection

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 10:33 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday forcefully condemned Donald Trump's election “big lie” that sparked the deadly breach of the Capitol by his supporters and continues to motivate deep national division. He...

Dozens of protesters, 12 police dead in Kazakhstan protests

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 10:00 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — Security forces killed dozens of protesters and 12 police died during extraordinarily violent demonstrations in Kazakhstan that saw government buildings stormed and set ablaze, authorities said Thursday. One police officer was...

10 dead, others missing after boat capsizes

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 12:10 AM

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP): An official in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar says 10 people have died when their boat capsized while they were travelling to attend a funeral. Regional Commissioner of South Region Mattar Zahor said nine...

Anti-vaccination protesters attack Guadeloupe hospital staff

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 12:10 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Dozens of anti-vaccination protesters in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe attacked a hospital director and other medical staff following recent violent demonstrations against vaccines and COVID-19 restrictions,...

President’s home set ablaze as protests escalate

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 12:07 AM

MOSCOW (AP): Protesters in Kazakhstan’s largest city stormed the presidential residence and the mayor’s office Wednesday and set both on fire, according to news reports, as demonstrations sparked by a rise in fuel prices escalated sharply in the...

Fire kills at least 13, including seven children

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 12:07 AM

PHILADELPHIA (AP): Fire tore through a duplex home early Wednesday in Philadelphia, killing 13 people, including seven children, fire officials said. At least two people were sent to hospitals, and officials warned the toll could grow as...

Ransom freed some missionary hostages in Haiti, workers say

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 7:31 PM

AP – An unidentified person paid a ransom that freed three missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti under an agreement that was supposed to have led to the release of all 15 remaining captives early last month, workers for their Ohio-based...

Novak Djokovic held at Australian border over visa

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 4:29 PM

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic had to spend the night at the Melbourne airport as officials refused to let him enter the country for the Australian Open after an apparent visa mix-up, leading Serbia's president to blast the...

Philadelphia fire kills at least 13, including seven children

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 1:16 PM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A large fire tore through a two-unit house early Wednesday in Philadelphia, killing 13 people, including seven children, and sending two people to hospitals, fire officials said. They warned the numbers could grow as...

UK authorities ease COVID testing requirements amid surge

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 12:42 PM

LONDON (AP) — Health authorities across the United Kingdom simplified COVID-19 testing requirements on Wednesday, a move designed to cut isolation times for many people and that may ease the staffing shortages that are hitting public...

Hong Kong bans flights from US and other countries, imposes COVID restrictions

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 10:02 AM

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities announced a two-week ban on flights from the United States and seven other countries and held 2,500 passengers on a cruise ship for coronavirus testing Wednesday as the city attempted to stem an emerging...

Poland’s president tests positive for COVID for 2nd time

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 9:31 AM

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for COVID-19 but has no serious symptoms, an aide said Wednesday. The aide, Pawel Szrot, said on Twitter that Duda was under medical observation but feels well....

Suspects held after fake online sale of Muslim women

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 12:09 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): Police in India have detained a man and a woman alleged to be involved in the offering for sale of prominent Muslim women on a fake online auction website, according to government officials, in a case that has sparked outrage across...

US arrests, charges suspect in Haitian president slaying

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 12:08 AM

MIAMI (AP): The US government announced Tuesday that it arrested one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse and charged him with conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States. Mario Antonio...

Gov’t threatens to withhold payment to striking workers

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 12:08 AM

PARAMARIBO (CMC): The Public Works Employees’ Organization (WOOW) has condemned the decision by the government not to pay workers who are staying off their jobs since April last year. “Since he took office, we have written numerous letters to the...

Man charged with footballer’s murder

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 12:08 AM

HAMILTON (CMC): A 24-year-old man appeared in Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with the murder of national footballer Osagi Bascome a week before Christmas. Raheem Wray was accused of killing Bascome, 23, during an alleged stabbing incident...

Woman appears in court on missile-throwing charge

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 12:08 AM

KINGSTOWN (CMC): A 56-year-old woman, who had been charged with wounding Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves during an anti-mandatory vaccination protest last August, appeared in court Tuesday on a charge of throwing a missile in the city. The...

Man charged with murdering his mother

Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 12:08 AM

CASTRIES (CMC): Police have charged a 53-year-old man with murdering his mother, whose body was found at her home at Blackstone in Jacmel, a small village south of here, on December 31 last year. A police statement said that on arrival at the...

Man free after 37 years due to 'sex for lies' false witness

Published:Tuesday | January 4, 2022 | 9:36 PM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man was freed from prison on Tuesday after 37 years in a case marred by detectives who allegedly offered a witness sex and drugs at police headquarters in 1983 in exchange for false testimony. The trial...

Prosecutor drops groping charge against former NY Governor Cuomo

Published:Tuesday | January 4, 2022 | 1:02 PM

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal prosecution over an allegation that he fondled an aide, after a prosecutor said Tuesday he was dropping the case because he couldn't prove it. Three days...

CDC signs off on Pfizer extra dose measures

Published:Tuesday | January 4, 2022 | 11:30 AM

NEW YORK — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has signed off on two measures to increase access to additional doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. The CDC on Tuesday recommended shortening the recommended interval of time...

Prime minister survives gun attack

Published:Tuesday | January 4, 2022 | 12:09 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti welcomed the new year with violence as Prime Minister Ariel Henry fled the northern city of Gonaïves following a shoot-out between his security forces and an armed group that had warned the leader not to set foot in the...

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