SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — Four more bodies have been found in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condo tower, a fire official said Wednesday, raising the death toll in the disaster to 16 people. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court overturned Bill Cosby's sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. Cosby has served more than...
LONDON (AP) — Marlies Haselton has called Britain home for more than 30 years. The Dutch national married a Briton, had her children there, and considers herself “part and parcel” of the UK. Until Britain's divorce from the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Supreme Court is leaving a pandemic-inspired nationwide ban on evictions in place, over the votes of four objecting conservative justices. The court on Tuesday rejected a plea by landlords to end the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying a court order to appear before an inquiry probing wide-ranging allegations of corruption...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC): The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has announced plans to stage the constitutional referendum, as well as the legislative elections for the Senate and deputy on Sunday, September 26. Earlier this month, Haiti had...
Surfside, Florida: Weeks before a Florida condo building collapsed, the president of its board wrote that structural problems identified in a 2018 inspection had “gotten significantly worse” and owners needed to pay a hefty price to get them fixed...
CASTRIES (CMC): The leaders of the two main political parties have appealed for calm as St Lucians gear up to elect a new government in a general election, a date for which has not yet been disclosed. Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has called for a...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is offering AstraZeneca to all adults in a bid to rapidly ramp up sluggish vaccination rates as more of the country on Tuesday locked down against the spread of COVID-19. The government late Monday agreed...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Accusations that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro turned a blind eye to possible corruption in a deal to purchase coronavirus vaccines have heightened threats to his presidency, including a move to recommend slapping...
SPOKANE, Washington (AP) — The unprecedented Northwest US heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved inland Tuesday — prompting an electrical utility in Spokane, Washington, to warn that people will face more rolling...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants who say they will face persecution or torture if they are deported to their native countries. Over the dissent of...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia needs to urgently increase medical care, testing, and vaccinations as new infections in the country have rapidly increased and left it “on the edge of a COVID-19 catastrophe,” the Red Cross...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying a court order to appear before an inquiry probing wide-ranging allegations of...
SURFSIDE, Florida (AP): Rescue workers digging for a fifth day into the remnants of a collapsed Florida condo building stressed on Monday that they could still find survivors in the rubble, a hope family members clung to even though no one has been...
DEL RIO, Texas (AP): Marianela Rojas huddles in prayer with her fellow migrants, a tearful respite after trudging across a slow-flowing stretch of the Rio Grande and nearly collapsing on to someone’s backyard lawn, where, seconds before, she...
DUBAI (AP): Police in Kuwait have arrested a resident – an Egyptian man – for posting a video online in which he rants about bad weather and dust storms. The arrest underscored the country’s restrictions on expression and drew criticism on social...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's new health secretary said Monday he is confident that England is on track to remove the country's remaining coronavirus restrictions on July 19, stressing that the rapid vaccination rollout is “breaking...
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal's battle to contain the surging COVID-19 delta variant has prompted it to put the United Kingdom on its red list for travel, speed up vaccinations in Lisbon, and cancel classes in the southern Algarve...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda has announced a 50 per cent reduction in taxes on airline tickets for travel within several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, with St John's indicating that the measure will last...
SURFSIDE, Florida (AP) — Rescue workers digging for a fifth day into the remnants of a collapsed Florida condo building stressed Monday that they could still find survivors in the rubble, a hope family members clung to even though no one has...
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the killing of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong says it will ban all passenger flights from the United Kingdom starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus. It said in a statement Monday that the UK has been...
ADDIS ABABA, (AP): Maerg was serving customers at his cafe in Ethiopia’s Tigray village of Togoga when the military airstrike occurred, filling the room with dust and bringing down debris that struck him on the head. “Everything was covered in...
LONDON (AP): Sensitive defene documents containing details about the British military have been found at a bus stop in England, the BBC reported on Sunday. The papers included plans for a possible UK military presence in Afghanistan, as well as...
