PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse seemed to have thrown an already turbulent nation into chaos on Wednesday, with a muddled line of succession. Here is a look at the situation: WHO WAS THE ASSASSINATED...
The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has drawn shock and condemnation from leaders in other parts of the world, along with calls for calm and unity in Haiti. Moïse was killed in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday,...
PORT Au PRINCE, Haiti (CMC): Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has declared a state of siege in Haiti following the assassination of 53-year-old President Jovenel Moise and injury to his wife, Martine, during an armed attack at their private...
SURFSIDE, Florida (AP): Emergency workers who have spent 14 days pulling apart the rubble of a collapsed condo building near Miami said on Wednesday they were switching from rescue to recovery mode, signalling the effort to find survivors was all...
NKANDLA (AP): Former South African President Jacob Zuma has launched a last-ditch bid to avoid prison by asking the country’s acting chief justice to delay an order for his arrest. Zuma’s lawyers have written to the country’s acting chief justice...
KANO (AP): Praying, crying and waiting for news about their children, the parents of more than 120 Nigerian students abducted by armed bandits at the Bethel Baptist High School in the nation’s northern Kaduna state have been gathering at the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has filed a suit against three of the country's biggest tech companies, claiming that he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored. Trump announced the action against Facebook,...
CASTRIES (CMC): The leader of the main opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP), Phillip J. Pierre is confident that the party will win the July 26 general election insisting that it has been preparing to return to government following the defeat in...
ROSEAU (CMC): Dominica’s first prime minister, Patrick Roland John, died Tuesday, the state-owned DBS Radio has reported. He was 83 years old. The cause of death was not disclosed, but John, the island’s last premier, had in recent years been...
PORT AU PRINCE (CMC): President Jovenel Moïse has named his seventh prime minister since coming to office in 2017. “I have appointed citizen Ariel Henry to the post of prime minister. He will have to form a government of openness, including the...
JAKARTA (AP): The clandestine clinic was under fire, and the medics inside were in tears. Hidden away in a Myanmar monastery, this safe haven had sprung up for those injured while protesting the military’s overthrow of the government. But now...
LONDON (AP): Britain plans to scrap laws requiring face masks and social distancing later this month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed on Monday, even as he acknowledged that lifting the restrictions will drive surging coronavirus cases...
ST PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Elsa is strengthening and could become a hurricane before making landfall along Florida's northern Gulf coast. The storm has already complicated the search...
NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — A South African regional court is to rule Friday on whether it will block an order by the country's highest court for the arrest of former South African President Jacob Zuma. The Pietermaritzburg High Court in...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — The weather was getting worse in southern Florida on Tuesday morning as Tropical Storm Elsa began lashing the Florida Keys, complicating the search for survivors in the condo collapse and prompting a...
HONG KONG (AP) — Nine people, including six secondary school students, were arrested in Hong Kong on Tuesday for allegedly plotting to set off homemade bombs in courts, tunnels and trash cans as political tensions rise in the city where China...
LONDON - Britain's government says it is scrapping rules for self-isolation for those who are fully vaccinated starting mid-August, as the country prepares to lift most remaining coronavirus restrictions. Currently, people who are notified...
NKANDLA (AP): Ignoring efforts to defuse a tense stand-off, former South African President Jacob Zuma told hundreds of supporters gathered outside his rural estate that he is appealing his 15-month prison sentence and impending arrest by police....
UNITED NATIONS (CMC): The United Nations (UN) on Monday began a 10-day high-level political forum on sustainable development, discussing ways to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and turn the deadly crisis into an opportunity for a...
TBILISI (AP): A protest against a planned LGBT march in the Georgian capital turned violent on Monday as demonstrators attacked and injured some 20 journalists covering the event. Organisers of the Tbilisi March For Dignity that was to take place...
MOSCOW (AP): Ukraine’s defence minister is under pressure from members of the government over the decision to have female military cadets wear pumps with heels in an important parade. “The purpose of any military parade is to demonstrate the...
KANO (AP): Dozens of students were abducted on Monday by armed bandits at Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi town of Chikun Local Government Area in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. A group of gunmen stormed the school early Monday, at around 2...
ST JOHN’S (CMC): The chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister Gaston Browne, on Monday, urged regional leaders to deal with what he termed the “untenable situation” in Haiti. Browne, addressing the 42nd regular meeting of...
HAVANA (AP) — Tropical Storm Elsa swept over western Cuba with strong rain and winds Monday, and forecasters said it would move on to the Florida Keys on Tuesday and Florida's central Gulf coast by Wednesday. The storm was moving over...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Parts of Indonesia lack oxygen supplies as the number of critically ill COVID-19 patients who need it increases, the nation's pandemic response leader said Monday, after dozens of sick people died at a public...
