WASHINGTON (AP): Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study to be released Thursday. The report predicts that...
“Da, duh.” Two simple notes – E and F – have become synonymous with tension, fear and sharks, representing the primal dread of being stalked by a predator. And they largely have Jaws to thank. Fifty years ago, Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster film...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that the US military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel 's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear programme in a risky gambit to weaken a long-time foe amid Tehran's...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A hot-air balloon caught fire and tumbled from the sky on Saturday in Brazil 's southern state of Santa Catarina, killing eight people, firefighters said. Footage shared by local news outlet G1 showed billows of smoke coming...
ENDERLIN, ND (AP) — Powerful winds, including a tornado, that swept across parts of the upper Midwest left three people dead and a regional airport heavily damaged, while nearly 150 million Americans were under a heat advisory or warning as the...
WASHINGTON, CMC – The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday said it had concluded the fifth and final reviews of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) arrangements with...
PANAMA CITY (AP): Panama suspended constitutional protections for five days in its northwestern Bocas del Toro province Friday after two months of protests and road blockades turned more destructive the previous night. Presidential Minister Juan...
GEORGE TOWN (CMC): During his first official visit to London as premier and financial services minister, André Ebanks met with UK Minister of State for the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty in London this week as part of a series of meetings...
BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The government of Barbados has described an online video commenting on Barbados’ foreign policy with the United States as containing information that is “false, misleading, and wholly fictitious”. In statement, the Office of the...
CASTRIES (CMC): Police have launched an internal investigation into an incident in which police officers are seen in a video that has been posted on social media threatening to shoot a motorist during a traffic stop. “Without prejudice to the...
NEW YORK (AP): A federal judge on Friday ordered the US government to free former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from the immigration detention centre where he has been held since early March while the Trump administration...
RAMAT GAN (AP): Aziza Melech felt her body relax for the first time in days when she settled onto her inflatable mattress in an underground station of Israel’s light rail system on a recent evening. For the next few hours, at least, the 34-year-...
LONDON (AP): UK lawmakers on Friday approved a bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives, taking it one step nearer to becoming law. The vote backing what is generally termed “assisted dying” – sometimes...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC): Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Mohabir Anil Nandlall has strongly rejected recent calls for prisoners to be allowed to vote in the upcoming general and regional elections, describing the proposal as a last...
VIENNA (AP): Iran’s foreign minister will meet in Geneva on Friday with counterparts from Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, Iranian state media and European diplomats said as Israeli airstrikes target his country’s nuclear and military...
DAKAR (AP): Congo and Rwanda will sign a peace agreement in Washington on June 27 that aims to end fighting in eastern Congo, the two countries and the US State Department said. Congo has accused Rwanda of backing M23 rebels in its mineral-rich...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): When Nombuyiselo Mhlauli was given her husband’s body back for burial, he had more than 25 stab wounds in his chest and seven in his back, with a gash across his throat. His right hand was missing. Sicelo Mhlauli was one of four...
WASHINGTON (AP): The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it is restarting the suspended process for foreigners applying for student visas, but all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for government review. The...
BUENOS AIRES (AP): Vowing that a conviction on corruption charges and a permanent ban from public office would not end her decades-long political career, Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner began serving a six-year sentence...
ST. JOHN’S, ANTIGUA: When a regional cyber-investigation team recently traced an online financial scam to computers outside the region, it again highlighted a sobering, yet all too familiar truth: cybercrime knows no borders. From identity theft...
WASHINGTON, D.C: Kavelle Christie, a Jamaica-born health policy strategist and healthcare reform advocate, has been selected as a 2025 inductee of Marquis Who’s Who, a distinguished biographical archive that has chronicled the lives and...
BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — As Israel and Iran exchanged more attacks on Thursday, US President Donald Trump sought to keep open the door to diplomacy on Tehran's nuclear programme, saying he would make up his mind within two weeks on whether the US...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The government of Barbados has described an online video commenting on Barbados’ foreign policy with the United States as containing information that is “false, misleading, and wholly fictitious”. In a statement,...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The Grenada government says there has not been an increase in Grenadians being deported from the United States since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January this year. “I actually don’t have the statistics...
NAIROBI (AP): A televangelist in Kenya who was notorious for claiming to cure infertility in women died in a car crash on Tuesday, local authorities said. Gilbert Deya was killed in “a horrific road accident which involved several vehicles”, James...
