WASHINGTON (AP): A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Monday that thousands of people living in the US for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration...
GAO (AP): The death toll from the deadliest attack in Burkina Faso in years has risen to at least 132 people and countless others wounded, security officials said on Monday. Jihadis on Friday night launched an assault on civilians in Solhan village...
Outgoing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Irwin LaRocque is suggesting that “another mechanism” be utilised in getting member countries to greater strengthen their existing cooperation and collaboration for the future development of...
GENEVA — The emergencies chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) says COVID-19 vaccination coverage of over 80% percent is needed to significantly lower the chance that an imported coronavirus case could generate new cases or spawn a...
GHOTKI, Pakistan (AP) — An express train crashed into another that had derailed in Pakistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. More than 100 were injured, and rescuers and villagers worked throughout the day to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the United States for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court ...
LUCKNOW, India— Two months ago Radha Gobindo Pramanik and his wife threw a party to celebrate their daughter's pregnancy and the upcoming birth of their long-awaited grandchild. They were so happy that they paid little attention to his...
WASHINGTON (AP) Kamala Harris, on her first foreign trip as vice president, is looking to deepen diplomatic ties with Guatemala and Mexico, two Latin American nations key to the Biden administration’s efforts to stem the spike in migration at...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC Justice and Public Security Minister Rockefeller Vincent has warned that the authorities will not tolerate any attempt to disrupt the June 27 constitutional referendum in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (...
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP): A wealthy jeweller sought by Indian authorities for questioning in an alleged $1.8-billion fraud case in his native India remained under arrest in the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica following a brief hearing. Mehul...
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP): When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending towards distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP): One of Africa’s most popular televangelists, Temitope Balogun Joshua, known as TB Joshua, has died, according to his church. He was 57. The Nigeria-born pastor was founder of the mega church Synagogue Church Of All Nations (...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP): Experts recovered the data recorder of a fire-ravaged ship carrying chemicals that is slowly sinking off Sri Lanka’s capital, as salvage crews stood by to head off a possible environmental disaster, officials said on...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — A federal judge has overturned California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, calling it a “failed experiment” that violates people's constitutional right to bear arms. US District...
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Maryland — A technical issue that involved “no major safety concerns” forced Vice President Kamala Harris' plane to return to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland about 30 minutes after she had left Sunday...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Sunday called for more public-private cooperation on cyber defences and said US adversaries already are capable of using cyber intrusions to shut down the US power grid....
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run boarding schools and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on “this...
SANTA BARBARA, California — The second baby for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is officially here: Meghan gave birth to a healthy girl on Friday. A spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan said Sunday the couple welcomed their child Lilibet...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the Group of Seven wealthy democracies' summit next week to urge world leaders to commit to vaccinating the global population by the end of 2022. Johnson is expected to stress...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Millions of Nigerians were unable to access Twitter Saturday after the government enforced an indefinite suspension of the microblogging platform's operations in the country. The Association of Licensed...
LONDON (AP) — The Group of Seven wealthy democracies agreed Saturday to support a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15% to deter multinational companies from avoiding taxes by stashing profits in low-rate countries. G-7 finance...
MIAMI (AP) — Florida health officials said infections and mortality data on its online COVID-19 dashboard will no longer be updated daily but will instead be provided on a weekly basis. The state Department of Health cited decreasing cases...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring in the United States picked up in May yet was slowed again by the struggles of many companies to find enough workers to keep up with the economy's swift recovery from the pandemic recession. US employers added 559...
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he is “deeply disappointed” the Roman Catholic Church has not offered a formal apology and made amends for its role in Canada's former system of church-run...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's government said Friday it was suspending Twitter indefinitely in Africa's most populous nation, a day after the company deleted a controversial tweet President Muhammadu Buhari made about a secessionist...
