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PARAMARIBO (CMC): The Association of Surinamese Journalists (ASJ) has called for protection to be provided for media worker Jason Pinas, after two hand grenades taped together were found under a car parked at his home on Thursday morning. Pinas,...

BANGKOK (AP): When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smouldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied. The Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on December 7, he...

CHICAGO (AP) : More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the US have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious Omicron variant. New...

CAIRO (AP): Libya’s top prosecutor on Wednesday ordered the country’s culture minister jailed pending an investigation into allegations of corruption. General Prosecutor Al-Sediq al-Sour said in a statement that Minister Mabrouka Othman would be...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Police are searching for gunmen who shot and killed seven passengers and injured several others in two incidents on Monday. The authorities said that the gunmen, who had hidden themselves in houses, fired upon the public...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) : Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s legacy is reverberating among young South Africans, many of whom were not born when the clergyman battled apartheid and sought full rights for the nation’s black majority. Tutu, who died on Sunday at...