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Published:Monday | July 14, 2025 | 12:06 AM

PANNONHALMA (AP): Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history. The 1,000-year-old...

Published:Sunday | July 13, 2025 | 12:16 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): Fuel control switches for the engines of an Air India flight that crashed last month were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, starving both engines of fuel, a preliminary investigation report said...

Published:Sunday | July 13, 2025 | 12:16 AM

BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey (AP): President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting August 1, a move that could cause massive upheaval between the United States and two of its...

Published:Sunday | July 13, 2025 | 12:15 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP): Four months after his release, South Korea’s disgraced former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sent back to a detention center after a Seoul court issued a warrant for his arrest last Thursday. Yoon’s brief, ill-fated imposition...

Published:Sunday | July 13, 2025 | 12:15 AM

CONCORD, New Hampshire (AP): The legal fight over President Donald Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship is advancing on a path toward the United States Supreme Court. A New Hampshire federal judge last Thursday issued a ruling prohibiting...

Published:Saturday | July 12, 2025 | 12:09 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Bahamas government says a new study has found that one in five Bahamian students between the ages of 13 and 18 have attempted suicide. Prime Minister Phillip Davis, speaking at the signing ceremony of a multi-million...

Published:Saturday | July 12, 2025 | 12:09 AM

NEW YORK, (CMC): A leading Haitian-American legislator Friday welcomed a United States federal district court ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order terminating birthright citizenship from becoming effective anywhere in the...

Published:Saturday | July 12, 2025 | 12:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The United States is selling weapons to its NATO allies in Europe so they can provide them to Ukraine as it struggles to fend off a recent escalation in Russia’s drone and missile attacks, President Donald Trump and his chief...

Published:Saturday | July 12, 2025 | 12:08 AM

DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP): A Pennsylvania man who posted a video of his father’s severed head on YouTube was convicted of murder Friday and sentenced to life without parole. Bucks County Judge Stephen A. Corr found Justin D. Mohn, 33, guilty in...

Published:Saturday | July 12, 2025 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Just months after President Donald Trump returned to office amid a wave of anti-immigration sentiment, the share of US adults saying immigration is a “good thing” for the country has jumped substantially, including among...

Published:Saturday | July 12, 2025 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks...

Published:Monday | July 14, 2025 | 12:36 PM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The founding chairman of CrimeStoppers Trinidad...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2025 | 12:10 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The Caribbean has achieved global success by recording a 62 per cent reduction in AIDS related deaths between 2020 and 2024 – the sharpest decline among eight regions globally. This is according to the Global AIDS Update Report...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2025 | 12:09 AM

NEW YORK (AP): On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2025 | 12:06 AM

LONDON (AP): Years of American-led investment into AIDS programmes has reduced the number of people killed by the disease to the lowest levels seen in more than three decades, and provided life-saving medicines for some of the world’s most...

Published:Friday | July 11, 2025 | 12:06 AM

MONROVIA (AP): There was confusion and anger in Liberia on Thursday after US President Donald Trump praised the English skills of President Joseph Boakai. “Such good English,” Trump said to Boakai at the White House, with visible surprise. “Such...

Published:Thursday | July 10, 2025 | 12:12 AM

NAIROBI (AP): Kenya’s president on Wednesday broke his silence on recent anti-government protests that left dozens dead, urging police to “break the legs” of those who stole and burned property during the demonstrations. President William Ruto...

Published:Thursday | July 10, 2025 | 12:11 AM

JERUSALEM (AP): As Israel and Hamas move closer to a ceasefire agreement, Israel says it wants to maintain troops in a southern corridor of the Gaza Strip – a condition that could derail the talks. An Israeli official said an outstanding issue in...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2025 | 12:10 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he’s “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine is “killing a lot of people” on both sides. “I’m not happy with him, I can tell you...

Published:Wednesday | July 9, 2025 | 12:10 AM

NAIROBI (AP): The death toll from Kenya’s anti-government protests on Monday has surged to 31, marking the highest single-day toll since the demonstrations began earlier this year, the state-funded human rights commission said Tuesday. It said...

Published:Tuesday | July 8, 2025 | 12:09 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti’s once-illustrious Grand Hôtel Oloffson, a beloved Gothic gingerbread home that inspired books, hosted parties until dawn, and attracted visitors from Mick Jagger to Haitian presidents, was burned down by gangs this past...

Published:Tuesday | July 8, 2025 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The Trump administration is ending the temporary status for nearly 80,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans that has allowed them to live and work in the US for a quarter of a century after a devastating hurricane hit Central America,...

Published:Monday | July 7, 2025 | 12:07 AM

ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The main Opposition New National Party (NNP) says it “is deeply concerned” by the Grenada government’s statement which it said “attempts to mislead the Grenadian people into believing that the nation’s debt burden is on the...

Published:Monday | July 7, 2025 | 12:07 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley says Rickey Singh has left a legacy that any young journalist with a genuine interest in building a reputation based on integrity would do well to emulate. In her message of condolences,...

Published:Monday | July 7, 2025 | 12:07 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN (AP): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised continued trade and investment in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday in an address to the nation’s Parliament. “It’s time for us to work together to give the global south its rightful...

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