MIAMI (AP) — A passenger on an American Airlines flight that landed at Miami International Airport opened an emergency door and walked onto the wing as the plane reached the terminal, authorities said. Flight 920 from Cali, Colombia, had just...
LONDON (AP) — A serving London policeman was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a woman he tricked into his car using his police identification and COVID-19 laws....
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system following a battle among gang members in a coastal lockup that killed at least 116 people and injured 80 in what authorities say was the...
PARIS (AP) — French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was convicted Thursday and sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 reelection bid, will appeal the ruling, his lawyer said. The court...
Published:Thursday | September 30, 2021 | 12:11 AM
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Prime Minister Mia Mottley says much thought has gone into the decision to transition Barbados to a parliamentary republic, even as Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley raised concerns over the legality of the government’s...
Published:Thursday | September 30, 2021 | 12:10 AM
UNITED NATIONS (AP): The crisis in Ethiopia is a “stain on our conscience,” the United Nations (UN) humanitarian chief said, as children and others starve to death in the Tigray region under what the UN has called a de facto government blockade of...
Published:Thursday | September 30, 2021 | 12:09 AM
HARARE (AP): For months, Acholo Jani was told to get a COVID-19 vaccination because it might save his life. He hesitated, fearful of potential side effects. But the moment he was told it would save his job, Jani got in line. The 43-year-old...
Published:Thursday | September 30, 2021 | 12:09 AM
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Acting Chief Justice Roxane George yesterday awarded compensation totalling GUY$3.1 million (One Guyana dollar=US$0.008 cents) to a 56-year-old Jamaican woman, who had been illegally detained in prison for eight months. Attorney...
Published:Thursday | September 30, 2021 | 12:08 AM
BELMOPAN (CMC): The Belize government says it is seeking to address the situation of migrants thrust into an irregular situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The government said it is moving to regularise those migrants in keeping with the United...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2021 | 10:49 AM
SHENYANG, China (AP) — People in northeastern China ate breakfast by the light of smartphones and shopkeepers turned on generators as much of the country enforced power cuts Wednesday to meet official conservation targets and ease shortages...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2021 | 9:25 AM
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A report into dealings by senior officials at South Africa's health ministry during the coronavirus pandemic was made public Wednesday, revealing corruption, fraud and the misappropriation of millions of dollars meant...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2021 | 2:46 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): The top US military officer told Congress on Tuesday that he knew former President Donald Trump wasn’t planning to attack China and that it was his job to reassure the Chinese of this in the phone calls that have triggered outrage...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2021 | 2:46 AM
LONDON (AP): Long lines are snaking down streets across the UK as drivers struggle to fill up their cars, causing widespread traffic misery and worries over whether the emergency services can do their work. The British army has been put on standby...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2021 | 2:46 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): Prime Minister Ariel Henry has dismissed members of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) throwing into doubt the planned constitutional referendum and elections in the French-speaking Caribbean Community country. The...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2021 | 2:46 AM
SEOUL (AP): North Korea on Monday accused the United States of keeping up its “hostile policy” and demanded the Biden administration permanently end joint military exercises with South Korea even as it continued its recent streak of weapons tests...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2021 | 2:45 AM
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP): A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole – with 345 additional years added on to ensure he is never released from...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer has submitted research to the United States Food and Drug Administration on the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine in children but the shots may not be available until November. The company said Tuesday it...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's transport minister said Tuesday there are “tentative signs” a fuel-supply crisis snarling the country is easing, but it will be a while before the situation returns to normal. The government has put...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's government announced Tuesday that the coronavirus state of emergency will end this week to help rejuvenate the economy as infections slow. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said the emergency will end Thursday and virus...
NASSAU (CMC): The Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) on Monday said it is seeking to remove an estimated 400 Haitian nationals from an uninhabited cay in the Ragged Island chain. In a statement, the RBDF said that it had been informed by a...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Former police commissioner Gary Griffith will return to court on November 10 even though his attorneys informed the High Court on Monday that an agreement had been reached with the Police Service Commission (PSC) regarding his...
BERLIN (AP): The party that narrowly beat outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc pushed on Monday for a quick agreement on a coalition government, but Europe’s biggest economy could still be in for weeks of uncertainty after an election...
REYKJAVIK (AP): Iceland briefly celebrated electing a female-majority parliament Sunday before a recount produced a result just short of that landmark for gender parity in the North Atlantic island nation. The initial vote count had female...
LAGOS (AP): Emmanuel Benson was planning to get his diploma in horticulture and landscaping from Nigeria’s Federal College of Forestry Mechanization next year. Now, he is not willing to risk the return to school after he was kidnapped by bandits...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): The Antigua and Barbuda Union of Teachers (ABUT) on Monday said it is not “relenting its stance” on teachers being exempt from “mandatory” COVID-19 vaccination, despite staunch opposition from the government. In a statement, the...
